Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) 22 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, September 21st, 2006 www.clitheroetoday.co.uk Ciitheroe 422324 (Editoriai), 422323 (Advertising), Burniey 422331 (Ciassified)


A debut victory


SHEEP farmer George Parker, right, of Horns Farm, Slaidburn, secured a debut championship victo­ ry at Craven Cattle Marts’ Sklpton Auction Mart when his trio of Beltex- Texel cross lambs clinched top hon­ ours at the August prime lambs show. Weighing 46kg,


the show champions sold for the day’s top price of £68 per head to a new butcher buyer at Skipton, G Cropper, of Haslingden. Another Red Rose butcher, Woodhead


Bros, of Colne, also bought the reserve champions at £52 each, from Eric Marshall, of Hayshaw, Harrogate. With 3,500 prime sheep forward, the day


saw good, solid trade, with an overall aver­ age price of IlOp per kilo achieved. Judge Stephen Maskill, who has a butch­


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er’s shop in Hebden Bridge, said: “It was an outstanding show in terms of both numbers and quality. The Texel classes in particular were of a very high standard and very diffi­ cult to separate. The champions were good fleshy lambs with great confirmation - ideal retailing Iambs.” Our picture, above, shows Mr Parker


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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, September 21 st, 2006 23 Sales off to a flying start


AUTUMN sales a t Gisburn Auction Mart got off to a flying start with the new season’s first sale of Mule gimmer shearlings. Prices peaked a t £115 per


head for the champion pen of 10 shearlings which had all reared lambs, forwarded by J. V. Fox, of Withglll. They sold to pre-sale judge


Mr Michael Wynn, of Glossop, who also took home the second prize winners at £100, this time from Cameron Walton, of Hel- lifield. A to ta l of 1,905 breeding


sheep, 165 breeding rams and 219 store cattle were forward. A packed ringside produced spir­ ited bidding, with Mule shear­ lings averaging £78. The sale of early breeding


rams saw a strong demand for Suffolk rams, with Ribble Val­ ley Suffolk breeder John Hart­ ley’s first prize shearling rams selling at £340 to J. G. & S. J. Tunley, of Bashall Eaves, Clitheroe. The second prize Suffolk


shearling ram, from I. D. Brig­ gs, of Guiseley, sold for £420 to


Quality stock on show


POWERFUL, well-bodied Continental shearling ewes were much in demand when Gisbum Auction Mart held its first breed­ ing sheep sale of the season. This year’s volatile lamb trade has clear­


ly made farmers realise the importance of buying good quality sheep. Leading the sale at £100, were the show champions, a pen of 10 three-quarter bred Texel shear­ ling ewes from Mark Ireland, of Whalley. They sold to J.E. & M. Frankland, of


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New Hall Farm, Rathmell. Mr Ireland’s run of 60 three-quarter breed shearling ewes averaged £86. He is pictured _________ with the champion


Fox family are the tops


' THE Fox family from Withgill yet again proved the dominant force ■with their mule shearling gjm- mers at the annual show and sale of more than 4,000 breeding sheep at Skipton Auction Mart. Vince Fox and his sons, Peter, Edward and


Robert, of Withgill Farm, repeated their success of 2005, once more sending out this year’s cham­ pion pen of 10, quickly following up on their -vic­ tory at the last month’s Skipton shearling gimmer show, a title they had taken the previous year. Their latest victors sold to B. Cottam, of New


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OUR picture shows Stuart Verity at Skipton auction with his first prize Mule ewes (s)


Hutton, Kendal, for £94 a head, a price also achieved by the Fox family’s second prize pen,' purchased by Brian Newhouse, of Wigglesworth. The third prize pen of pure-bred Texels from


Bernard and Ann Myers and Daughters, of Ripon, sold for the


day’s top price of £126.


There was anoth­


er Clitheroe area success when a sec­ ond show class for mule ewes was headed by a pen of 10 sheep from Stu­ art Verity, of Whitewell. They sold at £75 each to show judge Richard Brown, of Kirkby Malham. Mr Verity also


saw the third prize pen sell a t £63 apiece to J. Garth and Son, of Clapham, 'with the second prize pen from John Thorpe, of Sheffield, mak­ ing £66 a head when purchased by Henry Wolfenden, of Bolton-by-Bow- land. Mule gimmers


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J. E. & B. M. Harrison, of Slaidburn. Buyer C. Denby, of Downham, paid £410 for the leading Texel ram, while the overall Texel champion, a late


February-bom ram Iamb from the renowned Hull House Texel flock, sold at £230 to Gisbum- based fencing contractor Bob Lancaster.


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