HOME-BRED genetics were behind the top commercial entry from an extremely strong championship line-up, when Andrew Baillie’s Millennium Blue cross ewe lifted the tri-colour.

This two-crop ewe, out of a Texel mother and one of some 500 commercial sheep that run alongside a nnumber of other breeds at Carstairs Mains, Lanark, was shown along with her pair of ewe lambs by the Beltex sire, Mortons Apache, with help from Andrew’s 10-year-old son, Cameron, and shepherd, Kenny O’Connor.

James Orr had plenty to celebrate when, having never won a red ticket at Ingliston before, he scooped the reserve honours with a Texel cross ewe lamb. Marking a strong show debut, this March-born daughter of an Easterseat sire is out of a Texel cross mother, one of 40 run by James alongside the family’s arable operation.

LEADING awards:

Judge: M Stewart, Brotherstone, Melrose, Roxburghshire.

Supreme – A Ballie’s Texel cross ewe; reserve – J Orr’s Texel cross ewe lamb.

Best prime lambs – A Ballie’s Beltex cross

Beltex-sired prime lambs – A Ballie

Suffolk-sired prime lambs – J and W Kennedy

Best Half-bred – HP Sleigh and Son

Native or native cross ewe with lambs – JA Messenger

Continental or continental cross ewe with lambs –   1, A Baillie; 2, R Rennie and B Oldham; 3, Sutherland, Sibmister and Stainland Farms. 

Native or native cross gimmer – 1, J and W Kennedy; 2, Miller Farms; 3, JA Messenger.

Continental or continental cross gimmer – 1, Sutherland, Sibmister and Stainland Farms; 2, JA Messenger; 3, G Whyte.

White-faced ewe lamb – 1, J Orr; 2, Miller Farms; 3, Sutherland, Sibmister and Stainland Farms.

Any other cross ewe lamb – 1, DA Moir; 2, JA Messenger; 3, D Erskine.

Lightweight continental cross prime lamb pair – 1, A Baillie; 2, K and A Morton; 3, R Rennie and B Oldham.

Heavyweight continental cross prime lamb pair – 1, J and W Kennedy; 2, K and A Morton; 3, J and W Kennedy.

Lightweight native cross prime lamb pair – 1, J and W Kennedy; 2, E Hughes.

Heavyweight native cross prime lamb pair – J and W Kennedy; 2. G Whyte; 3, E Hughes.

Untrimmed prime lamb pair – 1, G Whyte; 2, JA Messenger; 3, J Guild.