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Averages: 99 shearling rams, £372.32 (-£190.42 for 16 more sold).
DESPITE A strong show and 16 more lots sold, the Border Leicester trade was considerably down on the year, with 99 shearling rams levelling at £372.32, back £190.42.
Top price was £1700, for the reserve champion from John Mauchlen's Kelso-based Spotsmains flock. Bought as a lamb at Lanark from Lammermuir, this ARR/ARR Clola Playboy son, is out of a dam by Glenside Glorify. The buyers were Billy and Neil Hamilton, Earlside, Hawick.
Another from the same pen made £1050 to Johnny Davidson, Adderstonshiels, Hawick. This one is by Glenside Hallmark, a ram bought at Lanark in 1999, and out of a bought-in ewe by Alticane Amalord.
A shearling from Eleanor Stokeld’s Doulton flock, at Acklam, Middlesbrough , reached the second-top price of the day, selling at £1500. Sired by Lyham Lord and out of a Kilphin Gentleman Jim ewe, this one sold to Playfair Farms, Morebattle Tofts, Kelso. Doulton also secured the top average for Borders, with eight shearlings levelling at £681.25.
The show champion, a Kilphin Fortress son from RN Howie, North Lyham , Alnwick, reached £1400. Rated ARR/ARR, this shearling, out of a Lyham King dam, sold to Rolley Telford, Branton Eastside, Branton, Morpeth.
Jimmy and John Jeffrey returned to the Border Leicester ring to sell at Kelso in their own right, for the first time in 35 years. It turned out a worthwhile choice, as their pen of two from the Deuchrie flock at Kersknowe, Kelso, reached a top of £1200. Securing this price was a ARR/ARR son of Mosside Mighty Fewd — a tup on loan from Mindrum Mill. Out of a ewe by Glenside Grandee, he sold to John and James Pate, Marvingston, Gifford. |
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DESPITE the slightly increased entry, a much improved show of shearling rams complete with heightened demand from the commercial sector ensured a buoyand demand for the big, white flashy Borders breed, at Kelso. It was a bumper sale for Ian Sutherland, who runs 40 pure ewes at Rock Midstead, Alnwick, when, for the second year on the trot, he sold the top priced shearling. Last year, his pen leader came under the hammer for £1900, but this year, the flock's best, brought out by shepherd Archie Plenderleith, realised £1800. Notably, this year's leader, an ARR/ARR scrapie genotyped ram is by the same sire as last year's £1900 shearling, being a son of the £600 Alticane Athlete, bought at Kelso in 2000, while the ram is by Stenton Senator. A member of the second prize group of three, he sold to Mrs Ellie Stokeld, Acklam, Cleveland, who also enjoyed a cracking sale, both in the show and the sale ring.
The father and son team of Sandy and Alex Watson, Morton Mains, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, also came up trumps for their first year selling at Kelso too despite being first in the ring. They received £1600 for their number one shearling, a prize winner at Dumfries Show, from RW and K Telford, Branton Eastside, Powburn. The breeding behind this group one scrapie ram includes Clola Catch, onto a ewe by Knowsie North Boy.
It was Mrs Stokeld selling sheep from her 50-ewe Doulton flock for the second time at Kelso who scooped the champion and reserve honours, and the award for the best pen of three. In addition, she also collected the day¹s third top price of £1400 for the per-sale champion, an ARR/ARR shearling son of the 600gns Kilphin Glentleman Jim, whose sons have been exported to Holland, out of a home-bred ewe by Glenside Grandee. Final bidder was Ritchie Strawhorn, Broomhillbank.
As the breeder of the champion, Mrs Stokeld, was also the first holder of the Balshando Memorial Quaich, presented to the breed society by Kathleen Wilkie, in memory of her late husband, George. The same sire was behind Doulton's reserve, which also stood 1st in his class as a lamb at the East of England and Great Yorkshire shows last year. He was knocked down at £1200, selling to Michael Hedley, Overacres, Otterburn. Doulton topped the averages league selling seven at £919 per head. A further five lots sold at or above the £1000 bracket. Next best at £1100 was a Glenside Halmark-sired shearling son from John Mauchlen, Spotsmains, Kelso. He sold to WJ Clark and Son, Upper Bolton, Haddington. Just behind, on £1050 was another group one scrapie genotyped shearling, this time from Neil Howie, North Lyham, Chatton, Alnwick, purchased by Broomhillbank. The sire was Kilphin Fortress onto a ewe by Angus Dundee.
Shearlings £1000 WJ Clark and Son, Upper Bolton, by Kininmonth Thirteen, to C Lowrie, Blegbie, Humbie; Mrs E Stokeld, Doulton, by Doulton Daredevil, to R Weir, Townfoot, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire; Mrs E Stokeld, Doulton, by Doulton Daredevil, to Messers Davidson, Adderstonshiels, Hawick.
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