LAMBS from Robert and Margaret Struthers, Collielaw, Carluke, dominated a show and sale of Texel-sired lambs on behalf of the Scottish Texel Sheep Breeders’ Club at Lawrie and Symington’s Lanark centre.

The sale, staged as part of the part of the company’s weekly prime sale on Monday, saw the couple lift the champion and reserve honours as well as the top prices.

The duo’s champion pen, selected by judge David Hamilton, Tippethill, was a pen of three-quarter Texels that tipped the scales at 44kg and later sold to S Collins and Sons, Muirhead, for £96 apiece. In reserve and leading the pence per kg trade at 221.3p, was a 40kg pen that sold to Vivers Scotland for £88.50.

However, it was a second prize pen of 47kg Texels from Collielaw that topped the gross trade at £97.50.

Overall, the 1796 lambs on offer levelled at 179.8p.

Averaging £65.98, the 595 cast ewes and rams hit £138.50 for Texel ewes from Hartside with tups to £127.50 for Texels from Haininghead.

LEADING awards:

Bred out of Mule – Lightweight 42kg and under – 1, J Cullen, Craighead, 42kg, £73.50. Heavyweight above 42kg – 1, Firm of Robiesland, 45kg, £83; 2, J Cullen, Craighead, 44kg, £79.50; 3, R and C Squair, Lower Killernie, 44kg, £88.50.

Bred out of Texel – Lightweight 42kg and under – Class 3 – 1, and reserve, R and M Struthers, Collielaw, 40kg, £88.50; 2, Lower Killernie, 42kg, £87; 3, R Reid, Bengall, 42kg, £85. Heavyweight above 42kg – 1 and champion, Collielaw, 44kg, £96; 2, Collielaw, 47kg, £97.50; 3, P and M Gray, Eastfield, 43kg, £85.

Bred out of any other breed – 1, Ingraston Farms, 40kg, £80.50; 2, Bengall, 41kg, £80.