Averages: Four ewes with lambs, £918.75; eight gimmers, £741.56; 10 recipient ewes with lambs at foot, £691.95

Aberdeenshire Blue Texel breeder, Stasa Moyse, came home in style from the Blue Texel Spring Spectacular sale at Carlisle, having sold two of the three top priced lots including the sale leader at 1200gns.

Dearest was the home-bred gimmer, Saltire Blue Barbie, a daughter by the 3300gns Hackney Your Joking ET, bred from the flock's show ewe, Jonsland Xtrovert, by Whatmore Siren. She sold to J Carter, Stones Lane, Linthwaite, Huddersfield.

The flock from Wool Hillock, Skene, also received 1000gns for Saltire Blue Bees Knees, another gimmer by Hackney Your Joking but bred from Saltire Blue, which boasts imported genetics on both sides. She also sold south of the Border, with C and R Sadler, Atherstone Drive, Gisborough, North Yorkshire.

Stasa also sold the second top priced lamb at 850gns to G Evans, Glyncaled, Mynydd, Carmarthenshire. This was Saltire Blue Chunk ET, a January-born tup lamb also by Your Joking and bred from Jonsland Xtrovert

Matching the 1000gns bid was a 2016-born ewe from A Groucott's Swffryd flock, based at Shifnal, Shropshire. Swffryd Adele, is by Llyn Y Bugail Xionm, bred from a Sams ewe and sold with twin ewe lambs at foot by a Turbo Blue sire, to A and C Watson, Sanderson House, Sandwith, Whitehaven.

Dearest lamb at 900gns was Henry Jewitt's Sunnybank Coca Cola ET, a March-born tup lamb by Hackney Xcel, from Gracie's Farm, Barnard Castle. He is bred from a Gregors ewe by Beautry Tybolt, and was knocked down to Messrs Cormack and McDowell, Vicarage Close, Billesdon, Leicester.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.