The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
BF shearling rams top out at £60,000
Blackface shearling rams hit a top of £60,000 at Lanark yesterday. A record shearling average was achieved in ring one, with 238 selling to level out at £3,156, up £110.71 on the year, for just 11 fewer sold.
In ring two trade was more selective, with 128 averaging £482.97 – an increase of £53.48 on the year but for 86 fewer sold.
Leading the way was pen number one from the Campbells ’ Glenrath consignment, from Peebles.
A son of the £160,000 Elmscleugh ram, out of a ewe by a £15,000 Dyke, he was knocked down at £60 ,000 to Alastair Mc A r t h u r, Nunnerie , B i g g a r, and To m m y Renwick, Williamhope, Clovenfords.
Also from Glenrath, a son of a £ 75,000 Dalchirla sold at £12 ,000 , to the Ham i l tons a t Crosswoodhill, West Calder.
Forking out some of that money, Glenrath teamed up w i th Ma lco lm Coubrough, Ha r t s i d e , Biggar, to buy the pen leader from Billy and And r ew R enw i ck , Blackhouse, Yarrow, at £48,000.
This son of a £75,000 Glenrath is out of a daughter of the Hulk.
Tommy Renwick, from Williamhope, Clovenfords, sold to a top of £26,000 for one by a home-bred son of a £40,000 Midlock, out of a ewe by a £25 ,000 Elmscleugh. He sold to the Ramsays at Milnmark, and Jimmy Wallace, Fingland, both Dalry.
Another from the Williamhope pen reached £9,000, a son of an £1,800 Kirklands, which sold to George Ir v i n g , Mo u n t Benger, Yarrow.
The Dunlop family at Elmscleugh, Dunbar, had a strong trade, with two hitting five figures. Top there was a £22,000 bid for one by a home-bred son of a £45,000 Midlock, which sold to the Aikengall,
Ma l c o l m Hartside.
A t £11 ,000 from Elmscleugh was a son of a £70,000 Glenrath, which went to Tom Paterson, Dunruchan, Crieff.
Matching the £22,000 price was the best from Ma l c o m Coubrough ’s Hartside consignment, a son of a £20,000 Dyke, which sold to Burncastle Farming, Lauder, and the Ma rshalls at Go sland, Broughton.
Two rams hit the £20,000 price tag, including one from Sam McClymont, Tinnis, Yarrow. A son of a £6,500 Easter Happrew, he sold to Cadogan Estates, Amulree; Glenmore Farms, Ballindalloch and the Hamiltons at Woolfords, West Calder.
The other at £20,000 was the pen number one from the Wights’ Midlock pen, from Crawford, a son of the home-bred Hum Dinger, which sold to Williamhope.
Hamiltons at Dunbar, and Coubrough ,
A lan McC lymon t , Kirkstead, Yarrow, sold to £17,000, with his son of a £6,500 Easter Happrew going at that money to the Murrays, Sewingshields, Hexham.
Not far behind, Mary McCall Smith’s Connachan shearlings, from Crieff, sold to £16,000, for one by a home-bred son of a £4,200 Gass. He went to Midlock.
At £15,000, Richard Carruthers, Me r k l a n d , Thornhill, sold his best, to the Blackhouse and Burncastle flocks.
Shearlings from Willie Graham, Craigdarroch, Sanquhar, proved popular too, selling to £ 14,000. Making that money was one by a home-bred son of an Allanfauld ram which sold to the Kay family, Gass, Straiton.
The Grahams also received £10,000 for a son of a £13,000 Craigdarroch, which went to Colin McClymont, Cuil, Newton S tewar t , and A lan McClymont, Kirkstead.