Lanark Show & Sale
Saturday 13th October 2007
Although the shearling class provided the day's champion at
the Beltex Scotland show and sale at Lanark, it was ram lambs which provided
the day's top prices.
The show was judged by Kevin Buckle, Buckles Farm, Barras,
Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria and he chose as his champion, a shearling from Gavin
Shanks & Alan Thom, Bowmanhurst Estate, Carluke which failed to meet
its reserve price and was withdrawn unsold.
However, Gavin's Inveresk pen provided the sale topper with
a ram lamb, Inveresk Loch Long, selling at 2,000 gns to Society chairman
Colin Barnes. The sire, Van't Ophoverveld King Kong, and the dam of this
ram lamb were both bred in the same flock in Belgium. The ram lamb's twin,
Inveresk Loch Fyne, went under the hammer at 1,500 gns to John Barclay, Mid
Brockloch, Maybole, Ayrshire, who in turn received the same sum for a March-born,
first prize ram lamb, Beachy Lamborghini, from John McIlwraith, Balig, Ayr.
This lamb is by Clary Hope out of Beachy Heather. Alan Jackson, Covington
Mill, Thankerton, Biggar sold Headlind Lampoon to Paul Slater, Whitley Hey,
Macclesfield, Cheshire who paid 1,800gns for this son of the Belgian-bred
Phenomenal V/H Groetenhof out of a Belgian-bred ewe Flossie Van de Biesheuvel.
John Cowan, 3 Brickrow, Auchincruive, Ayr topped the shearling
rams with a 850 gns sale of a Cookstown Hamish son out of a homebred ewe.
Buyers were J Guild & Sons, Laight Farm, New Cumnock, Ayrshire.
Averages:
34 Shearlings ………£319.94
38 Ram Lambs……..£447.08
6 gimmers………….£288.75
Show results:
Judge: Kevin Buckle, Buckles Farm, Barras, Kirkby Stephen,
Cumbria
Class 1 – Aged Ram
1st – Lot 1 – J McGarva
Class 2 – Shearling Ram
1st – Lot 45 – Messrs Shanks & Thom
2nd – Lot 65 – J Cowan
3rd – Lot 18 – A & M Dunlop
4th – Lot 13 – J L McMillan
5th – Lot 9 – B Ryder
Class 3 – Ram Lamb
1st – Lot 113 – J Barclay
2nd – Lot 102 – A Jackson
3rd – Lot 120 – J Cowan
4th – Lot 137 – G Shanks
5th – Lot 86 – J L McMillan
Champion – Lot 45 – Shanks & Thom
Reserve - Lot 65 – J Cowan
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