A top price of £12,500 and a further 17 lots selling for more than £4000 ensured a buoyant trade for the best entries at a timed online sale of working and partly trained sheepdogs and pups.
The entry of 183 head, through Farmers Marts, Dolgellau, saw a 65% clearance, with the top bid given for Dewi Jenkins’ Moli from Ceredigion. This fully trained farm and trials bitch by Clwyd Bob found a new home in Suffolk, south of England.
Preseli Rob, the Pembrokeshire Nursery champion last year from Ll Harries, Crymych, sold next at £10,000 to a sheep farmer in mid-Wales.
The next best in the trained section was £7100 paid for A Thomas’ Cloddiau Fly, from Aberystwyth. Fly was knocked down by a sheep farmer in North Yorkshire.
Other top prices saw Thisledown Molly from D Heard, Devon, sell for £6500 to Germany, while R Games took £6200 from a Cheshire-based buyer for his trained dog, Jim.
Partly trained entries reached £7000 for Kevin Evans’ Kemi Cass from Brecon. At just 10-months-old, Cass is already proving to be an excellent nursery prospect, being sired by Midderry Frank. She found a new home in Carmarthenshire.
At £5600, I Carroll sold his Glan y Gors Ruby bitch to a buyer in the Netherlands, and D Havard took £4800 for Trix.
The top priced pup at £6200, Beacons Billy, was also sired by Middery Frank. Consigned by D Evans, Brecon, Billy found a new owner in Lanark.
By the end of the sale, trained dogs averaged £3555; partly trained at £1898 and pups levelled at £774. The overall average was £2139.
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