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More than 1,000 store lambs were forward at -rXIitheroe Auction Mart’s sale on September 1st.


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v P.R.A. & D. Holt, while , “ Continental lambs and j BeltexlambsfromA.D.Mares j made £55 & £52.50 respec-


! tively. . Cheviots from B. & I.D. V‘ . « Howarth made £55 and Suf-


folks from S. & A. Mitton made up to £56.50.


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lambs sold to the mid-£so range,while medium-sized lambs were very good to sell, generally around £53 to £58. The following day at Clit-


heroe’s prime stock sale more than 1,500 new season lambs • were forward. The overall average was


i54ppkg and top priced Bel- tex lambs sold up to £68.50. Nice Texel lambs sold to £75-50 and strong Continen­


tal lambs made up to £75. S. Nuttall had the top price of the day and demand


remainshighforfarmassured lambs. , There was,also a good


entry of more than 350 cull ewes and rams. Texel ewes sold up to


£97.50, Continental ewes to £85.50 and Mule ewes to , £79.50. The overall average was


£57.93. at poultry sale


Clitheroe Auction Mart saw a busy day’s trading at its latest sale of pure bred poultry and waterfowl. It was a large sale consid-


© ering the time of the year, with more than 450 lots in the poultry section and close to 150 in the dead stock, and agood entry of hatching eggs plus huts, incubators and


^poultry accessories. ' Tradeforallstockwasex-


cellent, but especially for the top price on the day for a pair


ofHawaiiangeesefrom Mr M. Snape selling for £180 to Mr C. Cross from Nateby. Ornamental ducks dom­


inated in the waterfowl sec­ tion with some excellent specimens of call ducks on sale, which created a lot of attention among potential purchasers .eventually sell­ ing for £55 a pair. A u c t io n e e r Jeremy


Greenhalgh commented: “Goodqualitywaterfowlsold for exceptional prices, espe­


cially call ducks .which seem to be popular.


' “Copper blue Marans,


known for laying extremely dark brown eggs, created a stir and drew very good pric­ es on the day.” The next bi-monthly cat­


alogue sale will be on Sat­ urday October 4th and is already attracting a lot of in­ terest, with entry forms now available from the website or main office. Entries close on Wednesday September24th.


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Asupershowof good quality breeding sheep was forward at the annualshowand sale of 1,300 Mule and Continental ewes and Shearlings at Clithe­ roe Auction Mart.


Sponsored by Smiths Gore, Dugdales Nutrition and Bar­ clays, the show was very well supported with plenty of en­ trants in each' of the classes and several new buyers in at­ tendance. JudgeMrBrianTomlinson,


of Salwick, awarded the over­ all championship to T.G. & G. A. Whitwell.ofWaddington, with a pen of 10 Texel shear­ lings, which sold at £195 per head. The reserve champion­ ship was awarded to J.V. Fox, of Withgill, with their first placedpenofMuleeweswhich went on to sell at £160 per head to Mr Keith Whitwell, of Pay- thorne. In the Continental section, first prize shearlings


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were awarded to R. & E. Dean, of Chipping, whose strong pen of Texels sold at £155 also to R. & A. Smith of Billington. Following the sale, auction­ eer Jeremy Greenhalgh said: “Both ewes and shearlings were very much in demand and many more could have been sold especially stronger mule ewes ready for turning straight to the tups.”


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£155 and Mules to £160. Inthe shearlings, Cheviots sold to £96, Texels to £195 and Mules to £180.


SHOW RESULTS: Best Pen of Mule Ewe-1 J.V. Fox, Withgill, 2 A. Palmer, Twiston, 3 J. & F. Nutter, Hurst Green. BestPen of Mule Shearlings-1 J.V. Fox,With- gill, 2 and 3 R. S J. Brewer, Bleasdale. Best Pen of Continental Shearlings-1 and 2T.G. & G A Whitwell, Waddington. Best Pen of Continen­ tal Ewes-1,2 and 3 R. & E. Dean, Chipping.


Judges back home bred choice


Gisburn Auction Mart held its annual show and sale of Mule shearlings on Saturday August 30 th. Pre-sale show judges


Andrew Bailey and Sarah Aynan, of Eldroth, Settle, picked out a pen of powerful home-bred shearlings from Alan Butler, of Earby, as first prize and went on to back their judgement by purchasing the winners for £200. . Thomas Binns, of Down-


ham, claimed the second prize spot and later sold for £190.


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And Margaret Watkinson’s journey from Sessay, Thirsk,


was fruitful, picking up third prize and going on to sell for £170.


Other noteable prices


included W.A. Towler, of Grindleton, at £184, £168 and £162, while J.C. & I. Walton, of Hellifield, achieved £164 twice. Plenty of other pens of shear­ lings sold in excess of £150 and an overall average of £155 for all Mule shearlings was achieved.


Auctioneers were Richard Tumer&Son. Trophy win on debut


At CCM Skipton’s annual late summer show for pens of 50 Mule wether lambs, Alan Barnes ofCowden, Great Har­ wood, sent out the first prize pen and he and his shepherd Michael Burnop collected the Stephen Foster Memori­ al Trophy on what was their


debut appearance at the show. Mr Barnes, famed for his


prize-winningpoultryaswell ashis sheep, decided to retain the winning pen and said it had been a good year for his flock.


“We’ve had better weath­


er - as good as it gets. There’s plenty more to come later in the season,” he said.


Show judge was David


Findlay, from Coverham. He is a renowned Beltex breeder, and the fixture was again sponsored by Skipton-


basedJACSTrade&DlYWare- house.


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Alan Butler with his firs t prize pen of Mule gimmer shearlings, which sold for £200 alongside pre-saleshowjudges Sarah Aynan and Andrew Bailey.


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Farm, Higher Hodder, was sold in four lots, achieving the following prices. .• Lot one, 15.57 acres,


sold for £240,000 (£15,414 per acre) • Lot two, 7.6 acres, sold


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Ribble Valley sheep farmer John Greenhalgh - still going great guns at the age of 80 - presented the champion.pen of 10 Mules at Skipton Auction Mart’s high profile opening gimmer shearling show. The annual high profile


show and sale attracted a qual- itytumoutof4,oi9sheep,more than 600 up on the previous year, with solid trade much in line with expectations produc­ ing an overil selling average of £150.05 perhead, an increase of £7.53 on 2013. MrGreenhalgh, of Ruggles-


more Farm, Bashall Eaves, a regular prizewinner with his Mules at the fixture - he also won the same show class in 2012 - saw his latest victors sell for the day’s joint top price of £215 per head to co-judge Warwick Gill, of Melton Mow­ bray. AlsorepresentingtheRibble


Valley, Peter and Edward Fox, from Withgill, presented the second and fourth prize Mule pens, with the runners-up also achieving the joint £215 high when again snapped up by Mr


Fine show of breeding rams at Clitheroe Auction Mart


Awonderfulshowofbreed- ing rams were forward at Clitheroe Auction Mart'san- nual show and sale of Suffolk and Euro rams.


More than 140 Texel, Suffolk, Beltex and Charollais breed­ ing rams were forward and the judging classes were sponsored by Dalehead Vets and Barclays. Following seven separate


John Greenhalgh, right, with his champion pen of Mule gimmer shearlings, joined by co-judges AndrewOgden,left,andWarwick Gill,whopurchased the victors.


Gill, while Threshfield’s Angus Dean went to £210 per head to secure the Fox’s fourth prize pen. The same vendors also had a pen at £200.


judging classes, the overall show champion - decided byjudge John Redmayne of Clitheroe - was awarded to P.J. & H. Hartley, of Bashall Eaves, for a superb Texel shearling ram, later sold for 750 guineas to M.J. Alpe, of Whitewell. Reserve champion was


awarded to a fantastic Texel Ram lamb shown by Mr Tim Robinson of Preston, selling for 230 guineas to W.P. Brew­ er, of Bleasdale. Judge Stuart Beattie, of


Newton, spent time study­ ing the entries forward in


The overall champion, asuperbTexel shearling ram from James Hartley (centre) with Wayne Ellison of show sponsor Barclays (left) and judge John Redmayne,


the Suffolk classes before This was for a superb awardingthechampionship Suffolk ram lamb which to G.A. & C.A. Whittaker, of later sold at 310 guineas to Clitheroe.


Mr M. Lee, of Nelson. After selling the Euro rams,


auctioneer Jeremy Greenhal­ gh commented: “The better quality rams were every bit as easy to sell and still very much in demand. “The strong Texel rams are


once again proving the more popularatourbreedingsales.” In the aged rams, Texels sold to £273 and Beltex also to


£273. In the shearling rams,


S u f fo lk s sold to £525, Texels to £787.50, Charrolais to £315 and Beltex to £336. In the lamb rams, Suf­


folks sold to £336 and Texels to £241.50.


SHOW RESULTS Texel aged ram-1 TJ. Craddock, Bolton-by- Bowland, 2 C.D. Cornthwaite, Bolton-by-Bow- land.Texel shearling ram-1 P. & H. Hartley, Bashall Eaves, 2 and 3 FA. Nairey, Blackburn. Texel lamb ram-1 and 2TA. Robinson, Dil- w orth Bottoms. Suffolk shearling ram -1 J. & F. Nutter,Hurst Green. 2 and 3 M. & J. Holden, Edgeworth. Suffo lkramlamb -l,2and3GA & C A Whittaker, Clitheroe. Other Euroshear- ling/aged -1 M. Worthington, Ramsbottom, 2and 3 M. & J. Holden, Edgeworth. Beltex/ Beltex-X ram any age J


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