IT was a near clean sweep for the Elliot family’s Woodside flock when it landed all bar one of the top tickets in the Northie hill section.

Their lead lass this year was a three-crop ewe dubbed Woodside Mary that stood second to the champion here last year. She is by the £3800 Armadale Macleay, a tup that has been a great female getter and sire of two of last year’s show ewes since his purchase through Lairg, when named after Joyce Campbell’s husband, Ian.

Out of a ewe by Boreland Rodney, she had a single tup lamb this year by Brackside Swank – a Lairg-bought sire that went on to stand male champion and reserve supreme for John Winnie, Michael and Lillias. He is by Attonburn Muscle Man and was on his first outing.

Another ticket holder from the 620 pure ewes at Yetholm, Kelso, was the reserve male – a shearling by a home-bred son of a Badanloch sire that was also marking his first trip to a show.

The Kelsocleugh flock from Jim and Willie Thomson, also from Yetholm,  lifted the reserve female title with a home-bred gimmer. Always placed as a lamb on the circuit last year, she is by a Priesthaugh tup that bred a £2800 shearling last year and out of one of 1100 hill types that run alongside an equally successful park flock.

LEADING awards:

Judge: A Hutcheon, Hartside, Powburn, Alnwick, Northumberland.

Supreme – JM Elliot’s ewe; reserve – JM Elliot’s tup.

Male – JM Elliot’s tup; reserve – JM Elliot’s shearling.

Female – JM Elliot’s ewe; reserve – Kelsocleugh Farming’s gimmer.

Bred – JM Elliot’s ewe.

Tup – 1, JM Elliot; 2, H and J Mackenzie; 3, WD Allen (Stouphill).

Shearling tup – 1, JM Elliot; 2, JM Elliot; 3, WD Allen (Stouphill).

Ewe – 1, JM Elliot; 2, WN Douglas; 3, Kelsocleugh Farming.

Gimmer – 1, Kelsocleugh Farming; 2, JM Elliot; 3, Badanloch Estate.