A joint breed record of £18,000 was achieved at today’s North Country Cheviot hill type ram sale for the two-shear ram, Hartside Hill Alonso.

Having doubled the previous centre record of £9000 for this breed which has been reached on three occasions previously.

The record breaker came from Alan Hutcheon, who runs the Hartside Hill flock at Linhope Farming Partnership, Powburn, Alnwick.

This two-shear ram is sired by Sorbietrees Viscount, out of a home-bred dam.

After a quick run up the hammer fell to David and Alison Rock and son, James who have recently taken on the Hethpool flock, College Valley, Woolf, Northumberland.

Two rams then made £10,000 first to do so was the two shear, Buchtrig Apollo from Pete Tweddie, Hownam, Jedburgh.

This boy is a Elsdonburn Viagra son, out of a home-bred ewe and sold to Jimmy Thomson of the Kelso flock, Yetholm, Kelso.

The latter came from Dallas and Ruth Allen, Stouphill, Humbleheugh, Alnwick, Northumberland.

This two-shear was knocked down to Joyce Campbell of Armadale, Sutherland. Being a son of Badanloch Tip Top Tup and out of a Stouphill ewe.

Financing Hethpool’s big purchase today was the two-shear ram, Hethpool Arnold for the Rock family, Wooler, when selling for £9000 to Rae Flintoft, Sourhope, Yetholm, and his son, Rob Flintoft at Cocklawfoot.

This two shear is backed by home-bred genetics on both sides, being sired by Hethpool Wallace and out of a Hethpool ewe.

Michael and Lillias Elliot of Woodside, Yetholm, Kelso, sold their best two-shear, Woodside Attraction for £8000 to Hugh and Sandy Wilson, Newbank, Beattock, Moffat. This boy is by Woodside Wahoo and out of a home-bred ewe.

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