The annual show and sale of Swaledale draft ewes, gimmers and ewe lambs, at Cockermouth, saw the champion pen of ewes sell for the top price of £220 for EJ and RJ Wear, Howe Green.

Not far behind on £200, was the reserve champion, a pen of gimmers from DW and AS Noble, Burblethwaite, with ewe lambs from the same home topping the section at £82.

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LEADING prices

Ewes – £220, £190 Howe Green; £200, £130, £125 How Hall; £195, £185, £122 Wescoe; £180, £120 Rakefoot; £175, £145, £135, £132 Chapel House; £150, £140 Setmabanning; £150, £128 Erinntalla; £145 Burblethwaite; £130 Branthwaite; £125, £122 Undercragg; £125 Low Kinmont.

Gimmers – £200, £135, £130, £110 Burblethwaite; £160, £125 Rose Barn; £152, £125 The Faulds; £130, £120 Wythop Hall; £130, £95 Stanley Terrace; £125 Setmabanning; £125, £100 Wythop Hall; £120 Far End; £110 Hope; £95 High Nook; £95 The Cottage.

Ewe lambs – £82, £50 Burblethwaite; £60, £52 Wood Hall; £58 High Beckside.

Auctioneers: Mitchells

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