A gimmer from Eamonn Vaughan’s Partridge Nest flock from Staffordshire, led the Solway and Tyne Texel Sheep Breeders’ show and sale at Carlisle when selling for the top price of 2000gns.

The gimmer, a daughter of Teiglum Cinnamon, is bred from a Sportsmans female by Garngour Craftsman and sold carrying twin lambs to Auldhouseburn Ghost. Reserve champion at the pre-sale show, she was knocked down to G Wilson, Hawick.

The champion, an Auldhouseburn gimmer from Alan and Hugh Blackwood, Auldhouseburn, Muirkirk, made 1400gns selling to Lancs breeders, Alex and Gemma Brown, Brookfield, Tockholes, Darwen. Bred from a 9500gns Sportsmans ewe by Garngour Alabama and sired by Auldhouseburn Expression, she changed hands due with a pair to Haymount Fan Dabi Dozi.

Another by Expression from the same home made 900gns selling to Anthony Carter, Millcroft, Dawlish, Devon, who gets for his money a gimmer bred from the dam of the 75,000gns Auldhouseburn Boss. She also sold carrying twin lambs to Fan Dabi Dozi.

Top price for Malcolm Sym’s Callerton dispersal from Ponteland, Northumberland was 1000gns paid by Messrs Lawson, Throckley, Newcastle Upon Tyne, for a rising five-year-old ewe by Glenway Ace of Diamonds. She is out of a ewe by Teiglum Rembrandt and sold due to Hexel Funky Pigeon.

Callerton also took 900gns from James Pritchard, Evistones House, Otterburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne, for a Teilo Bendigeidfran-sired 2021-born female. She is out of a home-bred ewe by Ettrick Yorkie and again sold in lamb to Funky Pigeon.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

Averages: 33 head, £616.31