Averages: 10 cows in milk, £1753.50; 89 heifers in milk, £1801.77; three faulted ¾ heifers, £1168.33; 16 yearling heifers, £626.06.

Trade slipped by more than £200 on the month at the recent Border and Lakeland Club sale at Carlisle, where milkers cashed in at £1801.

A top price of 3000gns was paid for the heifer, Berryholme King Doc Rae from the Wright family, Berryholme, Kendal. Bred from 13 generations of Ex or VG dams, she is by the AI sire, Woodcrest King Doc and bred from Berryholme Callen Rae VG88, which went on to sell for 10,000gns at Berryholme Open Day. The heifer now joins Elwyn and Cheryl Thomas, Kidwell, Dyfed, for their Gatrog Holsteins herd in Wales.

Ploughlands Fortune Kari made her mark for the Gillespie family from High Ploughlands, Wigton, when selling at 2700gns to Messrs Millar and Son, Kirkpatrick Fleming, Lockerbie. This fresh heifer is a daughter of Progenesis Fortune and out of a previous home-bred Copious Kari.

Judge, Malcom Hutchinson, found his pre-sale champion in the freshly calved heifer, Kepculloch Attico August Red 2 from Robert Steel, Kepculloch, Balfron Station, Glasgow. She went on to make 2500gns when finding a new home with James Taylor, High Whinnow, Carlisle. A daughter of Gen-I-Beq Attico Red, August Red is bred from Kepculloch Messiah August Red 2.

Elwyn and Cheryl Thomas, purchased another at 2300gns in the reserve champion, Stowbeck Lighthouse Lydia from Skirwith Hall Farm, Penrith. This heifer produced her first in January, is by Westcoast Lighthouse, and is bred from six generations of Ex or VG dams being out of Stowbeck Bicardi Lydia.

The same buyers went to 2200gns for Peter Kemp's fresh heifer, Drointon Bailey Echo from Cairdhillock, Kingswell, Aberdeen. She is a daughter of MR DG-TM King Bailey, out of the Ex91 dam, Frontline Meridian Echo ET.

Glasgow-based David and John Brewster, Bearsden, also took 2200gns for Boclair Casper Lady May 2. A Claynook Casper daughter, she is out of Boclair Beemer Lady May 3 and travels down to Preston with Messrs Baldwin and Son, Forton.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.