Sale Report for CARLISLE PREMIER SALE - THURSDAY 29TH & FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST
Date of Sale: Thursday 29th August 2024
Blue Texels reach 8,000gns in Carlisle
The Blue Texel Sheep Society’s Northern Supreme show and sale in Carlisle saw prices hit 8,000gns twice.
First to make this price was an early February ram lamb Derg Jackal by Beili Blues Hulk out of an imported Dutch registered dam from S. Allen and A. Shortt, Castlederg, Northern Ireland. The three joint purchasers of this second prize winner were the Bimbister Partnership, Sandwick, Orkney; Messrs Sylvester, Eday, Orkney, and Messrs Wattie, Alford, Aberdeenshire.
Derg Jackal, 8,000gns
Next up at that price was another February lamb, Jems Jackpot, this one from Jennifer Duncan, Aberdeen. By Caryl's Blues Hulk and out of Nantyderri Going For Gold, it sold to Messrs Williams, Llanwnnen, Lampeter.
Jems Jackpot, 8,000gns
A shearling ram, Hodges Highlander from J. and D. Hodge, Auchinleck made 6,500gns. This son of Joe’s Alvin and out of a Shawtonhill ewe it sold in half shares to Messrs Howell, Llanddeusant, Llangadog and Messrs Jones, Llanllwni, Pencader.
Hodges Highlander, 6,500gns
David and Clare Gray, Selkirk, took a 6,000gns bid on their shearling ram, Ettrick Handyman, a son of Saltire Blue Ferocious – also in this sale – and out of a Jonsland Velcro sired Arnold ewe. He went to the Page Farm Partnership, Ripon. Rachel Almond, Enniskillen, also made 6,000gns for her March born ram lamb Mullygarrow Jackpot which is by Sams Houdini out of Matt’s Elegence and sold to G. Hoggard,Nottingham.
At 3,800gns, another shearling from Messrs Gray, Ettrick Hulk , sold to C.A. and S. Jessop, Coalville. Also by Saltire Blue Ferocious it is out of a Corra ew which bred several other high priced rams and females for Ettrick.
Close behind on 5,800gns was the February ram lamb Top-Bank Jack the Lad form R.A. Francis, Abergorlech, Carmarthen. By Ettrick Firefly, that also sired the 2023 Royal Welsh champion Beili Blues Hulk, the lamb is out of Top-Bank Grace and sold to Westwood Park Farm, Leominster. Another Top-Bank lamb made 3,800gns. Top-Bank Jackpot, a February single, is by Cairnrock Fully Loaded out of a Caryl’s Blues Dazzler sired Top-Bank dam. The buyer was David Isaac, Ystrad Meurig, Ceredigion.
There were two rams at 4,500gns. First was Abergavenny vendor Rhys Cooke’s shearling Nantyderri Hazelnut which had been his 2024 show ram. By Yarburgh Fire Starter out of a Derg Churchill sired home-bred ewe, it was bought jointly by Messrs Grahams and Messrs Dick, both from Stirling.
The second was a March lamb from Rhys Williams, Lampeter. Dragon Jupiter is by a home-bred ram and out of a home-bred ewe, and was the choice of Jennifer Duncan, Banff.
An aged ram made 4,000gns. David and Clare Gray’s 2021 born Saltire Blue Ferocious, bred by Stasa Moyse, is by a Corra ram out of one of their Saltire ewes, and had originally been purchased for £9,000. At the Carlisle sale he was bought by R. Crooke, Abergavenny.
It was also a 4,000gns bid that topped the shearling ewe trade when Matt Burleigh, Enniskillen sold his Matt's Halo by Mullygarrow Grey Goose, to R.E. and R.F. Scott, Orkney.
Beilli Blues High Hopes, a shearling by Ettrick Firefly from D.L. and B.W.H. Jones, Pencader, sold at 3,000gns to Messrs Baird, Tetbury, and is a full sister to the 20,000gns Beilli Blues Hulk.
At the same price, was the sale’s female and reserve supreme champion from Messrs Gray, a February ewe lamb by Show Winners Grand Slam out of a Corra ewe. It is an ET sister to the £10,000 Jackpot and first place ewe lamb at the Great Yorkshire. The buyers were Messrs Jessop and Sons, Coalville.
AVERAGES
2 aged rams, £2,388.75; 76 shearling rams, £1,247.29; 76 ram lambs, £1,474.14; 6 ewes, £630; 146 gimmers, £811.74; 22 ewe lambs, £858.14.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Report courtesey of H Walsh.
