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Bluefaced Leicester rams peaked at £3,000 at Kirkby Stephen on the weekend.
Overall 24 rams lambs averaged £646.82, up £114.13 on the year for a virtual cleanance.
Leading trade was a ram lamb from local breeder WM Hutchinson and Sons, Redgate. Sired by Hewgill D17 this he is out of the £10,000 Keer W1 dam and was secured by Messrs Dobson, White
Kirkley Farm.
Next best when selling to Messrs HM and RA Ivinson and Sons, Hole House, for £2,800 was the overall champion, a Hewgill B41 sired ram lamb out of a Hewgill Z14 dam from local consigner
Messrs Lord, Low Dougill.
The reserve overall champion was secured with a £1,600 bid from Judge Wilf Buckle, Bleathgill. From Messrs W and CW Dent, Greenriggs, this one was sired by Hewgill B21 and is out of a
Greenriggs B23 dam.