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Suffolks smash records at Carlisle

New overall female and a ewe lamb records were set at the Three Nations Suffolk show and sale at Carlisle

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
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Sportsmans shearling ewe which sold for 40,000gns
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Sportsmans shearling ewe which sold for 40,000gns

Trade peaked at 40,000gns, a female record, for a shearling gimmer from T.J. and C.R. Boden's Sportsmans flock, Stockport.

The Salopian Solid Gold daughter out of the home-bred dam by Strathbogie A Kind of Magic, sold in-lamb to a 52,000gns Lakeview ram by Strathbogie Stallone, to Messrs Sharp, Tenbury, Wells.

Making 28,000gns and setting a new ewe lamb record was a Dunfell Dynamite daughter out of a Lakeview bred dam by Limestone Limited Edition from Myfor Evans' Rhaeadr flock, Denbigh.

The buyer was Stewart Craft, Fife. Its full-ET sister sold for 8,000gns to Messrs Oare, Holywell. Mr Evans averaged £9,513 for five ewe lambs.

Mr Evans then invested some of this into a shearling gimmer from the Sportsmans flock, paying 15,000gns for Salopian Gold daughter, out of a home-bred ewe by Castleisle Crackkerjack, which was in-lamb to the same sire as the sale topper. The Sportsmans flock had the top average of £13,965 for five shearling gimmers sold.

Sportsmans shearling ewe which sold for 15,000gns

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Selling for 10,000gns was a shearling gimmer from J.C. Innes' Strathbogie flock, Huntly. By Salopian Scuderia out of a Castleisle Knockout daughter and in-lamb to Rempstone Gambler, it was knocked down to Messrs Bowdler, Ellesmere.

Averages - 3 aged ewes, £910; 59 shearling gimmers, £3,214.95; 19 ewe lambs, £3,586.57.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

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