Myfyr Evan’s Rhaeadr flock made a worthwhile trip to Skipton last week for the Northern Area Texel Club’s in-lamb sale when taking both first and second in the ewe hogg class and taking the day’s top call of 1100gns too.
The red rosette winner, a February-born daughter of the Knock Yardsman son, Garngour Alabama, which has many notable offspring, including Batman, also stood reserve champion.
Two full ET brothers had already picked up first and second novice prizes at the English National and Welsh Premier highlights, both selling well into four figures, while the Clinterty Yuga Khan-sired dam is herself a maternal sister to the 125,000gns Rhaeadr Best of the Best and twin sister of Rhaeadr Ace, who has bred sons to 15,000gns.
She sold to North Yorkshire buyers, the Ashbridge family, of Cold Kirby, Thirsk.Mr Evans, sold three further hoggs by the same sire at 900gns, this for his second prize winner, 700gns and 500gns.
The leading in-lamb price of 1000gns fell to the first prize ewe from mother and daughter, Freda Booth and Helen Keighley, who run the Wigglesworth flock at Settle, with a February 2017-born, daughter of the Knap Wot A Nut son, Proctors You’re Mine.
Out of a Procters Pay As You Go-sired dam and scanned in lamb carrying twins to Gillians Laithe Bentham, got by the70,000gns Teiglum Young Gun, the ewe, sold locally to David Hargreaves, Airton.
The flock also claimed two further runners-up rosettes with a brace of in-lamb females. Their second prize shearling ewe, a March, 2018, daughter of Procters Your Mine scanned carrying twins to Gillians Laithe Bentham, made 900gns when joining Richard Wilson’s Crimple Head flock, Beckwithshaw, Harrogate.
Proctors Farm itself produced an eye-catching pen of gimmers and the best of these, a daughter of Halbeath Woody in lamb to the 100,000 Sportsman Batman, also achieved 900gns when finding a new home back in mid Lancashire with Angela Nairey’s Meinspride flock in Liusey, Blackburn.
The Stainton flock of Cumbria’s Peter Woof stood supreme champion in the pre-sale show under judge Steven Kirby. The top ticket winner was the first prize shearling ewe, a homebred daughter of Eden Valley A1, himself by the 52,000gns Clinterty Yogi Bear.
Out of a ewe by the 32,000gns syndicate sire, Hexel Wildcard, the victor was sold carrying a single lamb to the 15,000gns Auldhouseburn Bolt son, Stainton Conrad. Tapped out as champion on both size and power by North Yorkshire show judge Steven Kirby, who runs the Kirby flock in Ainderby Steeple, the ewe, recipient of the Wilf Wood Trophy, returned home with him for 800gns.
The evening fixture heralded a good start to the 2020 pedigree sales calendar, with the 80 pedigree Texels forward representing an increase of 50% on 2019 entry levels, coupled with a solid 90% clearance rate.
Averages; ewe hoggs £439.38, gimmers £337.43, aged ewes £341.60 (Craven Cattle Marts).
