averages: 
515 South-type shearlings, £801.00 (+£39.48 for for £37 less).

The Mcarthur family, Nunnerie, Elvanfoot, Biggar, Lanarkshire, forked out the cash once again when they purchased the top price south-type shearling at £8000 from the Connachan flock, Crieff, Perthshire, from Mary McCall Smith and shepherd, Scott Macaulay. 
Averages were up on the year, mainly because the catalogued numbers were down on the year and a total of 40 were unsold.
The sale leader is the progeny of a Wheelbarrow son and out of a home-bred dam by the £18,000 Midlock sire. 
Second top price of the day, at £7000, was paid for a shearling out of the Burncastle pen, Lauder, Berwickshire, from Alan Rodgers and shepherd, James Brady. This was purchased by Scott McClymont, Tinnis, Yarrow. He is full of Glenrath blood, being a son of the £13,000 Glenrath and out of a home-bred ewe sired by a son of the £21,000 Glenrath. 
Another making their mark for Burncastle was one sold at £3000 to Jim Walker, Drumbuie, Sanquhar. He is by a home-bred sire that sold for £4800 and out of a £15,000 Dyke sired ewe. 
Another from the same home saw the hammer fall at £2400, this time for a son of the £42,000 Glenrath and out of a home-bred ewe by the £10,000 Dyke. This shearling headed home to Kelso with D and A Redpath, the Yett, Hownam. The Burncastle pen of 10 averaged £2070.
The Dyke pen from Jimmy and Donald MacGregor, Milton of Campsie, Glasgow, had a cracking day averaging £1027.78 for 18, with their best peaking at £4200 selling to Raymond Baynes, Blackford, Croy, Inverness. He is a son of the £3000 Elmscleugh and out of a home-bred ewe by the £20,000 home-bred sire. 
The same home also had prices at £2800 and £2500. The dearer was for a son of a £15,000 Midlock and out of a £24,000 Elmscleugh-sired ewe which headed home to the borders with Benson Wemyss, Meggethead, Yarrow, Selkirk. 
The £2500 shearling was knocked down to W Lockhart, Laggan Park, Glencairn, Dumfries-shire. He is by a £8000 Auldhouseburn and out of a home-bred ewe.
Along in ring two, there was £3800 paid for a south-type shearling – one from Alan Smith, Wester Crosswood Hill, purchased by PA Junor, Ballachraggan, Inverness. This one is sired by a £2000 Kirkstead and out of a home-bred ewe by an £1800 Blackhouse tup. 
Just along the road from Crosswood Hill is J and MJ Hamilton’s unit, managed by John and Finlay Robertson. They had a top price of £3200 for the male champion from this year’s Royal Highland Show. He is a son of a £1900 Williamhope and out of a home-bred ewe sired by a £3600 Crosswoodburn. 
This show star sold in a three-way split to Professor WA Penny, Cranshaws, Duns, Berwickshire; JN Nicol, Fechan, Dalry, Ayrshire; and DI and AM Lamont, West Tandlemuir, Renfrewshire.
Next best for the same home saw the hammer fall at £3000, again to Professor Penny. This home-bred son of a £2500 Dudlees and out of a £4000 Crosswoodburn-sired ewe. 
The same home also had another at £2600, which sold to Jennifer Craig, Normangill, Crawford, Biggar. This one is by a home-bred son of the £3600 Crosswoodburn tup and out of a home-bred ewe. 
Another with a £3000 cheque value was from the Renwick family, Williamhope, Old Peel, Galashiels, which was purchased by A Macdonald, Ess and Dalbuiack, Invernes-shire. He is a son of a £40,000 Midlock and out of a £13,000 Blackhouse-sired ewe.
On the same money was a ram lamb from Michael Wood, Shawsknowe, Crosshill, Maybole, Ayrshire, which was sold in a two-way split to Gerard McGinn, Chirmorrie, Barrhill, Ayrshire, and Hannah Blacklaw, Gatehouse. He is sired by a £10,000 Allanfauld, out of a ewe by a £5500 Dyke. 
The same home also sold another for £2500. He is by £7000 Balliemeanoch, out of a ewe by a £7000 Connachan. He went home with Hugh Hamilton, Glenmanna, Thornhill.
Being last in the ring was no disappointment for the Macarthur family, Nunnerie, when they sold one at £3000 to Lord and Lady Nairn, Balnabroich, Blairgowrie. This was a £6000 Elmscleugh-sired sheep out of a home-bred ewe by an £11,000 Greenside tup.