350,000gns Sportsmans Double Diamond
Sportsmans Double Diamond sparkles at 350,000gns
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flying trade at the Scottish National Texel Sale, Lanark, saw a new World record price for a sheep at 350,000gns when Charlie Boden and family sold their pen leader Sportsmans Double Diamond from their Sportsmans flock, Stockport, Cheshire.
65,000gns Hexel Django
This lamb, one of 19 to make 10,000gns or more, is sired by the 65,000gns Lanark champion from last year when judged by Charlie Boden, Garngour Craftsman, and is an embryo-bred lamb from a ewe lamb flushed last year and sired by the 32,000gns Plasucha Big Gun. The subject of much pre-sale speculation and a crowd puller from the moment he set foot in the market, Double Diamond carries an index in the top 1% of the breed and was met with an opening bid of 10,000gns. The price quickly escalated, with a rarely seen bidding war between a brace of consortiums, resulting in Brian Ross’ hammer finally falling in favour of a three-way partnership between Alan Blackwood, Auldhouseburn, Muirkirk, Procters Farm, Procters, Lancashire and Messrs Teward, New View, Darlington.
Second best of the day at 65,000gns was Hexel Django from Donald and Sarah MacPherson. This son of Procters Chumba Wumba, himself a son of the 100,000gns Sportsmans Batman, is out of a dam by Duncryne Uber Cool and was another for whom the bids quickly flew in. Taking this lamb was another threeway syndicate, comprising the Knox
family, Haddo, Turriff, Keith, Alan and Roy Campbell, Cowal, Lochgoilhead and the Wight family, Midlock, Lanark. Then at 50,000gns was another from the same pen as the sale topper in the form of Sportsmans Dirty Harry. This lamb by Garngour Craftsman is out of a dam by the homebred Sportsmans A Star and heads away to a five leg partnership. Shares in him were taken by Robbie
Sales
20 Autumn 2020
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