(Scottish Jacobs peak at £1,950)

Sale Report by Howard Walsh

Ram lambs sold to a reasonably firm trade and topped the Jacob Society’s Scottish Region’s show and sale at Newtown St. Boswells at £1,950....
The sale attracted a catalogue of 68 registered sheep and it was the second prize ram lamb, the January born four-horned Adamski Drifter from Huntly breeder Adam Christie, which drew top price and sold to David Sizer, Cleatham, Darlington. It is by Blackbrook Dragon out of an Edingale ewe.
Mr Christie spent £1,000 of his takings when he bought the first prize ram lamb and reserve overall champion from Mr and Mrs D.W. Harries, Llandeilo. Another four horner, this was the January born Hope Knock Out by their successful Hyndshaw Highland Laddie and out of a Hyndshaw Flash-sired Hope ewe.
A £590 bid saw the Blackbrook Darcy sired Kinloch Freddie, from Mike Munro, Fife, selling to Lyn Jones Wales, while Paul Colhoun, Omagh, C. Tyrone, paid £550 for another lamb from Hope, the Hyndshaw Gareth-sired Hope Hawk.
Two at £520 were Linlithgow breeders Connor and Dalrymple’s Reilly-bred Deerpark shearling ram, Deerpark Jack 2 by Gowanbank Max --this was bought by J. and M. Milton, Keith, Aberdeen --- and another ram lamb from Mike Munro, which sold to R.F. and D.J. Price, Churchstoke, Montgomery. This was by Blackbrook Fireballs.
Topping the females at £1,500 was the day’s supreme champion from Messrs Harries. This Royal Welsh winning January-born four-horned gimmer lamb by Hope Rocky Boy went to the judge, Lesley Partridge, Webheath, Redditch. Tony Reilly, Tranent East Lothian, paid £900 for another Hope lamb, this one by Hyndshaw Highland Laddie.
The dearest shearling ewe at £600 was a Dunmor Xerox daughter from Connor and Dalrymple and bought by Ewen MacMillan, Fintry, Glasgow.
AVERAGES: 9 ram lambs £600; 5 shearling rams £316; 3 aged rams £180; 16 ewe lambs £300.31; 18 shearling ewes £212.50; 5 ewes £135.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington

Champion Hope Ewe Lamb with Judge Lesley Partridge and Wyn Harries

 Reserve Champion

Northen Region Show and Sale 3rd September 2016

BREED RECORD EQUALLED AT SKIPTON

The existing breed record of 2,600 gns was equalled by the supreme champion at the Jacob Sheep Society Northern Region 41st annual show and sale at Skipton.

But the achievement was ultimately to be tinged with sadness. The four-horned gimmer lamb was from Tony Reilly, Tranent, East Lothian, and was shown and sold on his behalf by Robert Locker, Greenlaw, Berwickshire. Tony was dispersing his sheep having been diagnosed with terminal illness and sadly died the day after the Skipton sale.

His title winner, the first prize ewe lamb and female champion, had been bred in the Hope flock by Wyn and Siwan Harries, Llandeilo. A daughter of Hyndshaw Highland Laddie, it was bought by the judge, Gordon Connor, for his and Scott Dalrymple’s jointly owned Dun-Mor flock, Linlithgow, West Lothian.

There was a strong trade for both females and rams and four sheep changed hands for 1,000 gns or more. Second top price of 1,200 gns fell to the second prize ewe lamb from North Yorkshire’s Stephen Dodsworth, Helmsley. The January-born four-horner by the home-bred ram, Overdale Robert Price, became another acquisition for Mr Connor.

Stephen was also responsible for the first prize shearling ram, which was male champion and reserve overall. Overdale Takan is a January 2015 four-horner, also by Overdale Robert Price, which has actually just been sold to the Prices’ Pentrenant flock, Churchstoke, Powys. Takan sold for 580gns, top price in its class, to Jean Blacknell, Stafford.

It was Jean Price who showed the first prize ram lamb which went on to be reserve male champion. Going under the hammer at 1,100 gns, the February-born four-horned Pentrenant Louis is by Hope Flash Lad, Price’s stock ram who had been reserve champion at both the Royal Three Counties and Royal Welsh Shows. It was bought by Skipton’s Gavin and Becky Haworth, and Robert Locker, for their jointly owned Blackadder flock, established five years ago. The Haworths of course have their own Hurrsdale flock, while Robert has his own Edingale flock.

Jean Price’s husband, Robert, who runs his own Pentre flock, was close behind on 1,000 gns with his first prize shearling ewe and reserve female champion, a January 2015 two-horner originally bought from Jerry Strong and Lorna Hendey’s Elmley flock,Worcestershire. This Nutwood Warrior daughter sold to R.M. Burnley, Mirfield, West Yorkshire. Ron and Florence Verity, Crambe, York, sold a home-bred two-horned shearling ewe at 720 gns to Geoff and Sheila Wood, Ulverston.

Lancashire breeder Howard Walsh, who has the Thornley flock near Longridge, sold his four-horned second prize ram lamb at 900 gns to relatively new member and well-known Scottish Blackface breeder Ewen MacMillan, Fintry, Glasgow. The lamb is by the Blackbrook Fireballs son, Pike Field Fleet Street bred by Kevin Gaskell, Horwich, Bolton, who was also in the money at 800 gns, selling his two-horned second prize shearling ewe, also by Fireballs and bought by Mr Burnley.

Robert Price made 820 gns with a four-horned ewe lamb sired by Pike Field Commando – again to Mr Burnley. Meanwhile, Jean Price also sold a two-horned gimmer lamb by Hope Commando, at 750 gns to the Haworth and Locker partnership.

Aged rams sold to 260 gns for the second in class from John Atkinson, Thirsk.

Auctioneers: Craven Cattle Marts.

Wales Region Show and Sale

LAMBS dominated the breed society’s Wales Region show and sale at Llandovery where a ram lamb topped the sale at 640gns.

The top seller was the second prize lamb from Lyndon Trumper and Family’s two-horned flock at Brynderi, Abergavenny. Beiliau Ricky is a February triplet by the 2015 Royal Welsh champion Border Windrush, and out of a Gronant ewe. Making the day’s top bid for Ricky was Gavin Haworth, Skipton.

The ram lamb class also produced the sale’s overall champion which was a two-horner from the Gobaith flock of Siwan Harries and daughters Sara and Lois, Llandeilo. Gobaith Steffan is a mid-January son of Hyndshaw Highland Laddie out of a Hope Cannon ewe, and made 550gns to I.A. and W. Lewis, Llanrhystud, Ceredigion, who bought several of the higher priced lots.

The reserve championship and second top price of 600gns was claimed by a Beiliau ewe lamb. The January twin is by Hyndshaw Evan, the ram that took the reserve male championship at the 2015 Royal Welsh. The dam is out of a home-bred ewe by Elmley Dakota and the grandam is actually the same ewe that bred the Trumpers’ sale topper. The buyer was Gordon Connor, Linlithgow, West Lothian.

The second prize ewe lamb made 340gns. This was a four-horner from Wyn and Siwan Harries’ Hope flock, Llandeilo. A January triplet, it is by Hope Lucky Jac and out of a home-bred ewe by the Nidderdale sire, Bold Lad II. This one caught the eye of Ceredigion buyers Messrs Lewis.

The same buyers paid 310gns for another ewe lamb from the Trumpers, this one by Lower Argoed Titanic, while at 300gns, another Beiliau lamb by the same sire, was picked up by Bridget Wilson, Builth Wells.

Adult ewes sold to 170gns for Goodwick, Pembrokeshire breeder Rachel Latter’s March 2014 born two-horner which was bought by Messrs Lewis. Shearling ewes peaked at 320gns for another from the same home and by the same sire, Owlscote Mei, and also going to the same Ceredigion buyers.

A 160gns bid by S.C. Mogford, Neath, topped the senior ram class for Mrs M. Williams, Llanybyther, who sold her 2015 two-horner, Hamilton Jimmy.

Auctioneers: Clee Tompkinson Francis.