Bluefaced Leicester rams to £30,000 twice at Hawes

The first lamb to sell at £30,000 was from Messrs Lord’s Hewgill flock, North Stainmore. By a home-bred sire out of Hewgill H113 which goes back to B41 Hewgill and M8 Hewgill, it sold to a consortium of Paul Brown, Kirkby Stepen, Gary Beacom, Fivemiletown, D. McCrystal, Drummuck, and Shaun Proctor, Kirkby Stephen.

Messrs Lord sold another lamb at £10,000, two at £9,000 and one at £8,000, all by L7 Riddings, to average £9,255 for nine rams.

The other lamb to make £30,000 was from Granville and Paul Fairburn’s Marriforth flock, Thornton Steward. By a Greenriggs ram, out of a gimmer by the £9,000 Carry House, it sold to Graham Pears, Sheffield, and the Wight family’s Midlock flock, Biggar.

The Wight’s then had the next two top prices of £26,000 and £25,000. Firstly, for a lamb by the £13,000 son of Carry House Jackpot, bought from the Riddings flock, which sold to the Marriforth flock.

The other, by the same sire out of a ewe by H1 Kirkby Redgate, sold in a three-way split to Graham and Julie Loughery, Seamus Laverty and Ian Mongomery, all from Northern Ireland. The Midlock pen averaged £8,788 for their nine ram lambs.