The champion and reserve both sold for the top price of £3400 at Mitchells Auction Mart’s Tommy Baxter show and sale of store cattle at Cockermouth.

Champion was a Limousin heifer from Messrs Lamb, The How, Seascale, with the runner presented to a British Blue heifer from I Powley, Green Marsh, Carlisle.

Leading Averages

Herd (No) Avg (£)

The How (3) 2043.33

Crakeplace (41) 1876.83

Annfield (16) 1800.00

Gibb Tarn (8­) 1755.00

Eastlands (7) 1688.57

Pickett How (8) 1687.50

Lynedraw (7) 1685.71

Cubbin (4) 1652.50

Seathwaite (20) 1641.50

Ewanrigg (10) 1630.00

Leading Prices

Store cattle – Heifers – BB – £3400, £2500 (x2) Green Marsh; £1880 Holmecroft; £1850 Thornholme; £1590, £1480 (x2), £1470 Sorrowstones; £1560 Wythop Hall; £1550 Foxhouse; £1500, Woodhall Brow; £1430 Beck. Lim – £3400 The How; £2000 (x3), £1980 (x6), £1960 (x3), £1940 (x3), £1900 (x3), £1870 (x4), £1820 (x3), £1660 (x3) Crakeplace; £1840 Ewanrigg; £1800, £1660 Eastlands; £1760 Pickett How; £1740 Green Marsh; £1730 Cubbin; £1730 (x2), £1680 Annfield; £1700, £1660 (x2) Overcroft; £1680 (x2) Peter House; £1650, £1640 Brookfield; £1640 Grove; £1640 Howe Green. Char – £1900, £1680, £1490 Ewanrigg; £1760, £1460, £1430 Beck; £1640 Lynedraw; £1600 Green Marsh. Sim – £1720 Ewanrigg; £1400 Beck. A-A – £1700 Gibbtarn; £1700 Thornholme; £1490 Parsonage; £1470 Drigg Moorside. BS – £1680, £1330, £1320 West End. Sals – £1390 Town Head. HF – £1390 Woodhall brow. Fleck – £1350 (x2) Town Head.

Steers – Lim – £2000 (x3), £1960 (x3), £1910 (x2), £1740 (x2) Crakeplace; £1980, £1950, £1890, £1860 (x2), £1850, £1840, £1830, £1780, £1760 (x2) Annfield; £1950 Eastlands; £1920 Pickett How; £1920 Beechcroft; £1780 (x2), £1710 (x4) Seathwaite; £1740 (x2) Lynedraw; £1740 Meadow Bank; £1740 Eastlands; £1720 Cubbin; £1700 (x2) Peter House. Char – £1920, £1850, £1690 (x3) Gibbtarn; £1730, £1680 Lynedraw; £1680 Strudda Bank. BB – £1750 (x2) Gibbtarn; £1690, £1460 Overcroft; £1660 (x2), £1640, £1540 Green Marsh; £1640, £1540, £1490, £1430 Town Head; £1590 Gutterby; £1560, £1510, £1500 (x2), £1450 Holmecroft; £1480 Brackenbarrow. BS – £1560, £1550, £1500 (x2), £1460 West End. A-A – £1480 (x7), £1420 (x6) Brackenbarrow; £1470 (x3), £1420 (x2), £1400 Stybeck. Sim – £1420, £1350 Strudda Bank; £1370 Stybeck. Fleck – £1360, £1320 Town Head. HF – £1300 Brackenbarrow. Hfd – £1300 Parkhouse.

Bulls – Lim – £1720 (x3), £1700, £1660 (x4) Beechcroft; £1700 Peter House; £1680, £1520 Hollows; £1670, £1600, £1590 (x4) Lake View; £1640, £1520 Sandhills; £1630, £1610, £1580, £1570 Hayes Castle; £1630 (x2), £1540, £1510, £1500 Low Boonwood; £1620, £1580, £1490 Peter House. BB – £1560 Bagga Yeat. Stab – £1520, £1340 (x2), £1300 Stoney Howe. Char – £1340 Strudda Bank.