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PEDIGREE
FARMWEEK
OCTOBER 28 2021
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Blackface reach £130k at Lanark
B
LACKFACE rams met a
spectacular trade at the
breed’s annual two-day sale
at Lanark, on October 21
and 22, which saw four lots
hit six-figure price tags.
The ram lamb sale on day two,
achieved the majority of top prices,
selling up to £130,000, with the sale
average lifting by just short of £2000
on the year, to a record £7665 for
156 lots.
Making the day’s lead price, was
the pen number one from father and
son, Archie and John MacGregor
and shepherd David Kinloch,
Allanfauld, Kilsyth. Eclipsing the
flock’s previous top of £80,000, this
year’s star is sired by a full brother
to that £80,000 lamb, a home-bred
ram named Strike. Out of a ewe by
a £5500 Elmscleugh – one of 1500
ewes in the flock – he was knocked
down in a two-way split to Hugh and
Alan Blackwood, Auldhouseburn,
Muirkirk, and Alastair and David
MacArthur, Nunnerie, Elvanfoot.
The MacArthurs had a day to
remember themselves, selling their
Nunnerie consignment to a top of
£125,000 – their best price to-date.
Their leader, sired by the £80,000
Allanfauld, which they bought last
year, is out of a ewe by a £30,000
Midlock. He sold to a consortium
of three buyers – the Dunlops at
Elmscleugh, Dunbar; John Murray,
Crossflatt, Muirkirk; and Paul
Coulson, High Staward, Hexham.
The second Nunnerie lamb
in the ring, also by £80,000
Allanfauld,
reached
£62,000,
selling to Allanfauld; Jimmy and
Donald MacGregor, Dyke, Milton of
Campsie; the Barclays’ Harestone
flock at Insch; and Eoin Blackwood,
Dalblair, Muirkirk, who himself
received £32,000 for a lamb earlier
in the day. That son of £13,000
Glenrath, sold to four flocks –
Burncastle, Lauder; Blackhouse at
Yarrow; Williamhope at Galashiels
and Glenrath at Peebles.
Lambs from Northern Ireland
breeder, John Harkin, Loughash,
were in huge demand, selling to
£100,000, for a son of a £38,000
Dalchirla, out of a ewe by £11,000
Nunnerie.
He sold to the Blackwoods at
Auldhouseburn, Muirkirk, with Mr
Harkin retaining a half share.
The Blackwoods were also final
bidders on another Loughash
lamb, a son of a home-bred £20,000
Loughash, which sold at £82,000.
The Dunlop family, of Upper
Wellwood, Muirkirk, were another
team to enjoy their best ever sale,
achieving a top of £40,000 for a
SUCCESS: The top priced lamb
at £130,000, along with owners
shepherd David Kinloch, Archie
MacGregor andJohn MacGregor,
Allanfauld.
lamb by a Crossflatt son of £150,000
Auldhouseburn, which sold to the
Campbells at Glenrath, Peebles
and the Renwicks at Williamhope,
Galashiels, with the Dunlops
retaining a third share.
Trade also peaked at six-figures
on the shearling ram sale day, with
the Wight family from Midlock,
Crawford, receiving their best
Blackie price yet of £100,000 for
their pen number one, a son of
£45,000 Nunnerie, out of a ewe by
£24,000 Connachan, which sold to
Commercial Simmental
heifer sells for £2,750
Nunnerie, Glenrath and Ian Hunter,
Dalchirla, Crieff, with the Wights
keeping a quarter share.
Three shearlings hit the £40,000
mark, with one from the Campbells’
Glenrath flock selling at that money
to Dalchirla and Nunnerie. He is by
the £100,000 Nunnerie, bought in
2019.
Jimmy and Donald MacGregor
continued their successful year
with sheep from their Dyke flock,
selling to a top of £40,000 for a son of
a £17,000 Midlock. He went in a twoway split to Midlock and Dalchirla.
The other at £40,000, was one
from Burncastle Farming, Lauder,
managed by Alan Rogerson. Sired
by £42,000 Glenrath, that one sold to
the Pates at Moorfoot, Gorebridge,
and Alan McClymont, Kirkstead,
Yarrow.
Overall, 236 shearling rams in
ring one sold to average £3487.92
(+£331.83 for two fewer sold), while
129 shearling rams in ring two
averaged £495.40 (+£6 for three
more sold).
Auctioneer: Lawrie & Symington
British Blue bull sells for
3,500gns at autumn show
T
HE commercial section of the Northern Ireland
Simmental Club’s 50th Anniversary sale was topped
at £2,750 by a ten-month-old heifer.
Consigned by Alan Burleigh from County Fermanagh,
the much-admired cross-bred heifer known as ‘Miss
Crumble’ sold to Michael McNally from Cookstown.
Six-month-old commercial heifers realised £1,460 for
Gareth Bryson, Cookstown and £1,450 for Andrew Clarke,
Tynan, who also sold a February-born heifer (8mths) for
£1,650.
Eamon McCloskey, Kilrea, realised £1,650 for a SOLD: The ten-month-old cross-bred Simmental heifer ‘Miss
November 2020 heifer (11mths); while Ryan Gilmour,
Dungannon, sold a July 2020 born heifer (15mths) for Crumble’ sold for £2,750 at the Simmental Spectacular held
at Dungannon.
PICTURE: Mullagh Photography
£1,680.
A British Blue sold
for 3,500gns at NI
club’s autumn show
and sale, hosted by
Dungannon Farmers’
Mart.
Consigned by
Jack and Ann
Morrison, and son
David fromj Armoy,
the August 2019
Chatham Oakley
sold to Anne Adams
from Bellaghy. He
was sired by the
home-bred Kersey
Geronimo son,
Chatham Karl, and is
out of the Auchenlay
Eli daughter
Chatham Karol.
Salers reach 4,300gns for champion
T
n Ballykeel Prince, Overall Champion and Male
Champion, sold for the top price of 4300gns.
n Lisnamaul Rita, Female Champion and Reserve
Overall Champion, sold for 2900gns.
HE Area 4 Salers Club
hosted an autumn show
under judge Pearse
O’Kane, followed by a sale
of Salers, at Dungannon on
Friday October 22.
There was 100 per cent
clearance in both the male
and female sections. Topping
the trade at 4,300gns was the
Overall Champion, Ballykeel
Prince from Seamus Connell.
Prince was placed first in
his class at Balmoral Show
2021, as well as Junior Male
Champion and Reserve Junior
Breed Champion.
In
the
Continental
Interbreed, he was the male
selected in the breed’s group
of five, where this team were
also placed first. Prince was
a thick, dark bull with good
plates, a quiet temperament
and a super head.
The two other bulls,
Lisnamaul Peter Pan and
Mileview Pathfinder, both
achieved 3,000gns.
Seamus Connell of Ballykeel
Salers topped the female
trade also at 3,400gns with
Ballykeel Penny, a thick, long
heifer sired by the French bull
Icare. She was a very sweet
and feminine heifer who had
been vet checked prior to the
sale.
The second top price for a
heifer went to the Reserve
Overall Champion on the
day, Lisnamaul Rita, a March
2021 born calf out of the 2019
Balmoral and Omagh Show
Champion Lisnamaul My Girl.
Three bulls sold to a top of
4,300gns and an average of
£3605. Four females sold to a
top price of 3,400gns and an
average of £2992.50.
Many thanks to the club
members of Area 4 for
arranging this event and coordinating the promotion of
the sale and sale animals.
SHOW RESULTS, SPONSORED BY
PROVITA:
Junior Heifer - 1st. Lisnamaul
Rita.
Senior Heifer - 1st. Lisnamaul
Peggy; 2nd. Ballykeel Penny;
3rd. Lisnamaul Paula.
Senior Bull - 1st. Ballykeel
Prince; 2nd. Lisnamaul Peter
Pan; 3rd. Mileview Pathfinder.
Breed Champion - Ballykeel
Prince; Reserve - Lisnamaul
Rita.
EXPORT SALE OF IN LAMB
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TO INCLUDE DISPERSAL
OF THE DONRHO FLOCK OF PATRICK DONNELLY
BALLYMENA LIVESTOCK MARKET
Monday 8th November 2021 at 6.30pm
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