Kelso replacement sees £12,000 topper

Selling at £12,000 was the best form the Orr family’s Walston flock

Texel 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.

Also from the Midlock pen, shepherd Brian Gilchrist’s own Dundas shearling sold at £7000 to Russel and Gill Watkins, Upper Cwm, Craswall. He’s a son of Mitchellhill Actionman, out of a ewe by Deveronvale Warrior.

Selling at £8000 was the best from Archie and John MacGregor’s Allanfauld pen, Kilsyth. Sired by Knap You’re The Man and out of a ewe by Garngour Ultimatum, he sold to three Lanarkshire buyers, Meikle Jackson, Wolfclyde, Blair Cockburn, Kingside and David MacArthur, Nunnerie.

A Knock Yardsman son from the Allanfauld consignment made £4200, selling to J B Pate and Son, Toxside, Gorebridge. His dam is by Teiglum Wiseguy.

Leading the way for the Dunlop family, Elmscleugh, Dunbar, was a son of Plasucha All In One, which sold at £7500 to Steven Renwick’s Craig Douglas flock. His dam is a daughter of Milnbank Wisconsin.

Another hitting the £7500 mark was one from Malcolm Coubrough, Hartside, Biggar, which sold to G V and J A Hardman, The Clamp, Shrewsbury. He is sired by Halbeath VIP and out of a ewe by Sportsmans Unbeatable.

The Procters Farm consignment enjoyed a steady trade, selling to a top of £6200, for a shearling son of the 9000gns Thrunton Younique, out of a ewe by Scrogtonhead You Stoater. He was knocked down to Dougie Fleming, for the Burnhead flock at The Cottage, Nisbet, Biggar and J and W Bell, Highfield, Carnwath. Second top from Procters was £4600, for another by Thrunton Younique, out of a Whitehart Woody daughter, which sold to John Gray, Unthank, Alnwick.

Jonathan Watson’s Brijon consignment from Bowsden Moor, Berwick-UponTweed, realised a top of £5200, for a son of Midlock Youre The One, out of a College ewe by Brackenridge Strongbow. He sold jointly to Robin and Caroline Orr, Halbeath, Dunfermline and Matthew Jack, Carriston, Glenrothes.

Andrew Proven’s Prime Star pen, from Lanark, proved popular early on in the sale, reaching a top of £4800 for a son of Craig Douglas Braveheart, bought at the Scottish Club sale at Lanark two years ago. Out of a ewe by Lower Reiss Warlord, he sold to Welsh buyers Gary and Meinir Howells, Shadog, Llandysul.

From the same pen, another by the Craig Douglas sire, out of a ewe by Claybury War God, made £4600, to B and W McAllister’s Artnagullion flock at Kells, Ballymena.

Matthew Seed’s Auchry shearlings from Cuminestown, Turriff, sold to a top of £4800, for one by the Builth-bought Canllefaes You Are The One, out of a ewe by Stainton Yes Sir. He went to C Cornthwaite, Closes Hall, Clitheroe.

Leading the Douganhill entry from Castle Douglas, was a £4200 seller, a shearling by Glenside King II, out of a daughter of Glenside Razzle Dazzle. He went to Jack and Tom Arnott, Haymount, Kelso.

Andrew Proctor, Swarland Old Hall, sold to £4000, for a shearling by the Sportsmans Tremendous son, Gyrhos Bulb, which sold to Neil Harvey, Blackadder Mains.

Alex and Russell Gray sold a son of Lamb Bros Unbeatable, from their Langside pen, for £4000. Out of a ewe by Peacehay Ya Belter, he sold to Sharplaw Farms, Kelso.

The lamb trade peaked at £3100, for one from Robbie Wilson’s Milnbank flock – a son of Knock Yardsman, which sold jointly to Northern Ireland buyers, Alastair Gault, Forkins, and the McAllisters, Artnagullion.

Second best in the lambs was £2100, for an Ettrick son of Brackenridge Commander, which went to Paul Quick, Loosebeare, Devon and Nicky Hartwright, Whitehart, Herefordshire.

Ring 1 (Ex Ring 9 – Lawrie & Symington) – 168 shearling rams, £1297.80; 35 ram lambs, £526.57.

Ring 3 (Ex Ring 7 – Lawrie & Symington) – 142 shearling rams and one aged ram, £1101.69; 75 ram lambs, £510.53.

Ring 2 (Ex Ring 5 – Hexham and Northern) – 219 shearling rams, £839.36.

Midlock sold at £9000

At £8200 was another from the Orr family

The MacGregors sold at £8000