Selling at £12,000 was the best form the Orr family’s Walston flock
Kelso replacement sees £12,000 topper
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exel rams made a solid trade at the replacement Kelso sale held at Lanark by Lawrie and Symington, in conjunction with Hexham and Northern Marts, with three hitting fivefigures and a strong average throughout.
Gordon Gray took £11,000 for Ettrick Cocky Bob
Sale topper, at £12,000, was a shearling ram from the Orr family’s Walston flock, from Wester Walston, Carnwath, Lanark. Making the flock’s best price to-date, was one of the first sons to be sold off the £16,000 Blackadder Albertz, a ram shared with Jim Gibb and Iain Minto. Out of a home-bred ewe by Scrogtonhead Yer Man, he sold in a two-way split to John Elliot, Roxburgh Mains, Kelso, and Ken Hodge, for the Greenarch flock at Huntlywood, Earlston. The Orrs sold 10 tups to average £2909, with another son of Blackadder Albertz selling at £8200, to the Ellis’ Cressage flock in Shropshire. His dam is a daughter of Scrogtonhead Uproar. Gordon and David Gray received a strong trade for their Ettrick pen of shearlings, peaking at £11,000 for Ettrick Cocky Bob, a son of the £29,000 Garngour Awesome. A twin brother to the 5500gns Ettrick Cockney Rebel, he is
out of a ewe by Castlecairn Vital Spark. He sold north, to Jim Innes, Dunscroft, Huntly, and James and Sandy Hunter, Wedderburn, Huntly. Later in the day, Steven Renwick sold the best from his Peebles-based Craig Douglas flock at £10,000, to the Whitefords, Tercrosset, Brampton. He’s by 2019 Sire of the Year, Knock Bantastic and out of a daughter of Haddo Whisky Galore.
Another from Craig Douglas, also by Bantastic and out of a ewe by Tamnamoney Tuborg Gold, made £5200, to Robin Ellis, Gwern-Y-Marl, Ffordd, Flintshire. Best for the Wight family’s Midlock consignment was a £9000 bid for a Bantastic son, out of a ewe by Deveronvale Warrior, which is a full sister to Midlock Yorkie. He sold to Jonathan Watson, Bowsden Moor, Esmor Evans, Maerdy and Ben Marsden, Liley.
Sales
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