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North Country Cheviots sell to £16,000

The sale of North Country Cheviot rams at Lockerbie peaked at £16,000 twice

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Hartside Hill Commando
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Hartside Hill Commando

The first to sell at this money was Hartside Hill Commando, a two-shear ram by a home-bred ram from Linhope Farming Partnership, Powburn, which sold in a two-way split to Messrs Baillie, Lanark, and Bennett Partners, Powys.

The other ram making £16,000 was Sorbietrees Captain, a two-shear son of North House Reliant consigned by Sorbietrees Farms, Newcastleton, which was knocked down to Bowmont Farming, Kelso.

Sorbietrees Captain

Next, at £12,000, was Whitehope C 30679, a two-shear ram by Suisgill Vanguard from W.N. Douglas, Yarrow, which sold to Messrs Craig, Biggar.

Whitehope C30679

Two rams sold for £10,000, with the first being Gillesbie Crackpot, a two-shear son of Hownam Grange Xackery from Gillesbie Farms, Lockerbie, which went home with Messrs Elliot and Partners, Kelso.

Gillesbie Crackpot

The other, from Linhope Farming Partnership, was Hartside Hill Cracker by Hartside Hill Alonso, which sold to Sorbietrees Farms.

Hartside Hill Cracker

Bowmont Farming then sold Attonburn Classic, a son of Badanloch Wildfire, for £9,000 to Eskdalemuir Forestry, Langholm, and paid the same money for Carruthers Crusader, a Hownam Grange Xpert son consigned by C.R. Graham and Sons, Lockerbie.

FEMALES

In the female section, ewes sold to £260 for W.D. Allan, Stouphill flock, Alnwick, with the stock ewes from Sorbietrees Farms selling to £215 for a pen of 100 four-crop five-year-old ewes.

R.B. and C. Flintoft, Yetholm, sold pens of shearling gimmers from their Cocklawfoot flock at £260, £255 and £235 twice. Ewe lambs sold to £240 for Messrs Allan.

Averages - 368 rams, £1,494; 1,651 ewes, £152.83 (+£11.62 on 2022); 1,196 gimmers, £207.83 (+£27.38); 681 ewe lambs, £128.07 (+£17.83).

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

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