OTHER breeds met a very mixed trade with only a few selling for four-figure sums, but it was a cross-bred shearling that was the best of the rest at £1800. 
That was a Beltex cross Charollais from Stuart Woods, who runs the Woodies flock of Beltex at Woolhillock, Skene. His leader, which was used at home as a lamb, is by a home-bred Beltex sire and out of a Logie Durno dam. Forking out the cash was Ewan Shaw who manages Glenalmond Farm, Perth. 
The very next lot, which was bred the same way, made £1500 when sold to Alan Cowen who manages Philiphaugh Estate, Selkirk. 

* An improved show of Charollais sheep saw prices peak at £1700 for the best from Hannah Sloan, Riggheads, Dumfries. 
Selling at this price was a shearling son of Banwy Pick of the Crop – an £1100 purchase at Worcester – out of the bought-in ewe, Parkgate Nelly that stood champion at Lesmahagow Show last year. He headed down to Kent with Norman Belcomb and Sons, Horses Bones, Lydd
Despite being second in the ring, Mrs Elma Wight’s Midlock flock from Townfoot, Biggar, was also in the money with sales at £1300 and £1200. Both were sons of a Foulrice ram and were purchased by Harry and Lynwen Emslie, Kinknockie, Mintlaw, Peterhead.
Matching those two prices was a shearling ram from R and J Andrew, Rowanston, Maybole, which made £1300, while another from Jonathan Wales’ Thackwod flock from Carlisle, realised £1200.

* Immediate past president of the Border Leicester Society, Neil Howie, produced the champion and top priced lot among the Border Leicesters, when a shearling ram from his North Lyham flock Alnwick, sold for £1300 to T Hamilton and Son for breeding Half-breds at Earlside, Hawick. 
This shearling, which was first in his class at the Border Union Show, is by the 880gns Eildon The Hursel, bought in 2012, while the dam is by Moss Side Assassin

* Mr Howie had more to celebrate when he sold to top priced Vendeen at £1120. 
Selling to near neighbour Moira Renner, from South Lyham, to produce finished lambs, this lad is by Lyham Oasis, a past champion at the Great Yorkshire, and out of a ewe by Lyham Nugget. 

* Among the North Country Cheviots, it was the shearling Allanshaws Vortex from Galashiels-based Roderick Runciman that topped the entry at £1300. 
Selling to Fawdon Farms, Powburn, Alnwick, he is among the first crop by Synton Springbok, and out of a home-bred ewe by Philiphaugh Teves. 

* Dutch Texels peaked at £1100 twice for unregistered shearlings from Michael Davis and daughter Beckly, from Ravenshaw, Eldroth, selling to J and E Walby and Sons, East House Farm, Dissington, and Page Farm Partnership, Rookwith House, Rippon. 

* Lleyns hit a top of £1050 for one of GH Blakey’s shearlings from Netherton Northside, Thropton, which sold to JR Graham and Partners, Greenshields, Biggar.