A SHEARLING Kerry Hill ram topped Harrison and Hetherington’s sale of rare and minority breeds at Carlisle, when the entry, from RF and DJ Price, was knocked down for £2900.
Pentrenant Max, from the Prices’ flock at Herberts Farm, Saddledon Street, Middle Tysoe, caught the eye last year when he was deemed the best ram lamb in the 2016 flock competition.
Sired by a Woodhouse ram – that later sold to Moffat-based DJ Steen, Coxhill Farm, for £1600 – and out of a Pentrenant ewe, he was knocked down to Welsh breeders, GW and GM Roberts, Pengwern Bach, Henllan, Denbighshire.
Next amongst the sheep, the Ryeland shearling ram, Barony Whisky, made £1000 for C Smyth, Urral, Kirkcowan, Newton Stewart, selling to J Singleton, Marina Grove, Preston, Whisky is by Chase Tonto.
Jean Nuttall’s reserve champion Dexter was the dearest entry in the cattle section when the four-year-old bull, Jordeth Steve, sold to James Mallender, Town Hill, Camlane, Thornton In Craven, for £2600.
Used at home at St Michaels, Belthorn, Blackburn, he is by Blaen-Y-Mhor Jet and out of Planetree Siren.
Longhorn cattle peaked at £1600 for the reserve champion from Stephen Horrocks and Son, Spruce Avenue, Lancaster.
That was Gale Farm Oldany, a 2014-born daughter of Carn-Edward Ifor bred out of Three Bridges Katherine. She sold with her Blackbrook Savour-sired heifer calf, the January-born Gale Farm Rysa Little, to R Beattie, Glenpark Road, Co Tyrone, due again in January to Blackbrook Sabre.
The annual sale of Jacob sheep peaked at £300 twice, with both of these selling to Scotland.
Mr and Mrs Crowe, from Frockheim, Arbroath, sold their four-horned shearling, Fields Flash, a Brockie Law Duncan son, to Margot Smith, South Clutag, Whauphill.
At the same price, Mrs Helen Baillie, of Rowanbank, Yieldshields, Carluke, sold a Pentrenant Sammy-sired unregistered ram lamb to T Ellison, Menzies Avenue, Cumnock.