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| Pictured, left is Beltex Sheep Society president Tom Ashton, who selected the gimmer shearling as his supreme champion when he judged the pre-sale show and Gavin Shanks holding the ewe. |
The Beltex breed once again broke its own UK record at the in-lamb ewe
sale at Carlisle on Friday December 5th 2003 which also met a high clearance
and a shearling gimmer average of £822.
It was Gavin Shanks and Alan Thom who dominated the Beltex Sheep Society’s
premier in-lamb ewe sale conducted by Harrison & Hetherington and earned
not only the new record price of 5,000gns but also had most of the leading
prices.
The scrapie genotype one female which is in lamb with twins to the record
breaking ram Tullygarley Elite, which sold in Carlisle for 34,000gns in
August, sold to James McGarva and his son James, of Horseclose, Annan for
their Horseclose flock. The previous record for an in-lamb female was set
at 3,600gns at a private sale in Lanark last year.
Beltex Sheep Society president Tom Ashton, was vindicate in his selection
of the gimmer shearling as his supreme champion when he judged the pre-sale
show. He had not been aware that the gimmer shearling was carrying twins
by Tullygarley Elite nor that she was a group one scrapie genotype female.
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She was outstanding in the show. She has superb muscling and is a big powerful
ewe,” said Mr Ashton. “This has been a great sale to round
off the year for the breed.”
The McGarvas, who have re-stocked their pedigree flock after losing their
bloodlines established eight years previously during foot and mouth, bought
the ewe to breed a good ram lamb for their own use.
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| Lot 201 ewe from Shanks and Thom made 1,000gns. |
Shanks and Thom sold a total of 23 in-lamb females at the sale, achieving
their best price yet for a female. They also had the next leading price
of 1,000gns tice, both of which are in-lamb to Elite. Their first was
for an imported ewe which was the first into the ring and was chosen as
reserve champion. She sold to T Hunter, Newtown Farm, Bridlington Road,
Yorkshire.It was another shearling gimmer again carrying twin lambs to
Elite, a scrapie genotype two, which sold to prime sheep showman John Hall,
of Inglewood Edge, Dalston, Carlisle. The parthership sold gimmer shearlings
at 950gns, 850gns and 800gns.
Also in the leading prices were father and son John and Nick Frazier, of
Coningswick Farm, Rock, Kidderminster with a shearling gimmer in lamb to
Van Korenhof Calvados which sold for 850gns to GR Barrett, Salt Pie Farm,
Sutton in Craven, Keighley.
Leading prices:
Lot 251 Shanks and Thom, Bowmanhurst, Brownlee Estate, Carluke, Lanarkshire
shearling gimmer, 5,000gns to JA McGarva, Horseclose Farm, Cummertrees,
Annan, Dumfriesshire. (1st in class 2 and overall champion).
Lot 201 Shanks and Thom, 1,000gns to T Hunter, Newtown Farm, Bridlington
Road, Yorkshire. (1st in class 1 and reserve overall champion)
Lot 264 Shanks and Thom Garrion Foxylady shearling gimmer, 1,000gns to
R Hall & Son, Inglewood Edge, Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria.
Lot 252 Shanks and Thom shearling gimmer, 950gns CM Jennings, Crake Hall,
Selside, Cumbria.
Lot 240 HS Frazier and Son, Coningswick Farm, Rock, Kidderminster, Worcestershire,
shearling gimmer, (2nd in class 2)
Lot 254 Shanks and Thom, shearling gimmer, 850gns to G & J Belcher & Sons,
Lilliehurst Farm, Sheriffhales, Shifnal, Shropshire.
Lot 263 Shanks and Thom Garrion Fern, shearling gimmer, 800gns to K MacPherson,
Dulse Farm, Glenferness, Nairn.
Averages: 26 shearling gimmers £822.63; 24 ewes £393.31; 2
ewe lambs £525.00.
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