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beltex
scotland/
 Sales 2006
LANARK AGRICULTURAL
CENTRE
Thursday 14th September 2006
The Beltex Scotland ram sale at Lanark on Thursday
14th September 2006 saw
a good clearance of an increased entry of shearlings and ram
lambs and was followed by the reduction sale of the Pentland
flock belonging to Graham and Fiona Burke, 2 Easter Balado Cottage,
Kinross.
The day's top deal at 1,800gns involved one of
the Beltex Society's youngest members and one of its veterans when
11 year-old Alasdair McLean, Heylipol, Isle of Tiree sold a homebred
shearling, Tiree Jiggy Jig, to 83 year-old Society president Jock
Allan, Burghmuir, Biggar for his Southolm flock. Sired by Ian's
Highflyer out of a Corstane-bred dam, the shearling was the first
to be sold from the Tiree flock and took the eye of the pre-sale
show judge, Granville Colegrave, Guardswell, Inchture, Perth who
awarded him the red, white and blue ticket.
Later in the day, Alasdair
took a second four-figure price, 1,000gns, this time for Tiree
King Pin, which had stood second in the ram lamb class. This
Clary Junior-sired lamb out of an Airyolland-bred ewe was knocked
down to Blackface breeder John Maxwell who runs a Beltex flock
at Jaw Farm, Fintry, Stirlingshire.
Aberdeen-Angus breeder John
Tilson, Wedderlie, Duns paid 1,000gns for Orkney Juggernaut,
a shearling sired by a Belgian-bred sire out of an imported ewe
and consigned by Alton & Vera Copland
who run Beltex and Texels at Overhouse, Harray, Orkney.
The Beachy
pen topper from Ayrshire breeder John Barclay, Mid Brockloch, Maybole
also went under the hammer at 1,000gns. Beachy King Kong, a March-born
ram lamb sired by Clary Hope out of a homebred ewe joins the Headlind
flock owned by landscape contractor Alan Jackson, Covington Mill,
Thankerton, Biggar.
A small show of aged rams sold to 1,100 gns
for Pentland Hooch, a 2-shear Dirk son consigned by James McGarva,
Horseclose, Cummertrees, Annan selling to James Groat, Bishopton,
Portlethen, Aberdeen.
Averages:
2 Aged Rams £724.50
76 Shearling Rams £404.66
41 Ram Lambs £374.41
Auctioneers: Lawrie & Symington
Pentland Flock Reduction
Thursday 14th September 2006
A high quality offering of Beltex females
from the Pentland flock of Forfar auctioneer Graham Burke saw
a string of four-figure prices peaking at 1,750 gns for Pentland
Glayva, a two-crop ewe sired by the Belgian-bred Dirk. Purchasers
of this ewe which had been 1st prize ewe lamb at the 2003 Highland
Show were Kevin and Rachel Buckle, Buckles Farm, Kirkby Stephen,
Cumbria.
Two of the breed's most influential sires, the
34,000gns Tullygarley Elite and The Rustler were combined in Pentland
Joanna, an Elite-sired gimmer out of a Rustler-sired ewe which
was knocked down at 1,700 gns to former Beltex breeder Peter Kenyon,
Home Farm, Muiresk, Turriff who is establishing a new flock. Mr
Kenyon also paid 1,100 gns for the 2005 Angus Show Inter-breed
champion, Pentland Drambuie, a 5-crop Rustler daughter out of an
imported ewe.
Two gimmers hit the 1,200 gns mark, the first,
Pentland Janine, a Dirk daughter out of a Beachy ewe, went to Wigtownshire
breeder Ian McMillan, Carse of Clary, Newton Stewart. The second,
Pentland Jewel, a daughter of Wonderboy out of the renowned ewe,
Southolm Carla, also went to Wigtownshire and joins Glen and
Heather Forsyth's Bishopton flock at Whithorn.
Northern Ireland
breeder Paul Barnes, Tullydonnell Rd, Rock, Dungannon paid 1,100gns
for Corstane Gowan, a two-crop Dirk Daughter out of a Corstane
ewe while a top bid of 1,000gns from John Scott, Fearn Farm,
Tain, Easter Ross saw Pentland Heather head north to the Fearn
flock. She is by Coningswick Gadfly out of a Rustler-sired ewe.
A & J Alston, Chapleton of Menmuir,
Forfar paid 1,200gns for a ewe lamb, Pentland Kylie a Cookstown
Hamish daughter out of the day's top price ewe, Pentland Glayva.
Averages:
12 ewes £655.83
7 gimmers £900
9 ewe lambs £630
Auctioneers: Lawrie & Symington |
+44 (0)17683 41124
