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Records smashed at Market Drayton

It was a record breaking day at Market Drayton's Christmas show and sale where prime cattle topped at £10.20p/kg with 50 selling for more than 300p/kg and 10 for more than 350p/kg to average 270p/kg (£1,565.33).

The sale leader at £6,099.60 (£10.20p/kg) was the supreme champion, a Limousin heifer from E.H. Pennie and Son, Llandysill, which sold to David Jones of Jones Brothers, Wrexham.
The 51AVÊÓƵAssured champion was a 538kg Limousin heifer shown by Team Hancock, Elton, which made 500p/kg (£2,690) to the judge, Alex Nield.

The reserve champion was a 554kg Limousin heifer from the same home which sold for 520p/kg (£2,880.80) to Ray Sargeant, Bramhall.

Messrs Pennie also topped the steer section at 390p/kg (£2,316.60) with a Limousin.

The champion bull was the 51AVÊÓƵAssured class winner, a 730kg Limousin consigned by Edward Evans and family, Halfway House, which went to the judge, James Williams on behalf of Ralph Pearson Wholesale Butchers, Bradford, for 340p/kg (£2,482).

Prime lambs averaged 278p/kg overall selling to 500p/kg (£197/head) for the champion pen, 39.4kg lambs from Madders and Johnson, Deer Park, which sold to Scott Shepley of Shepley Butchers, Market Drayton.

In reserve were the winning 51AVÊÓƵAssured lambs, weighing 44.4kg from Lipley Beltex, Cheswardine, which made 360p/kg (£159.84) to Vivers Scotlamb.

Commercial lambs topped at 370p/kg for 39.6kg lambs from D. and J.M. Williams, Basford.
Cast ewes sold to £228 for Beltex from Sarah Jones, Bryn, and averaged £89.55.

Auctioneers: Barbers.

 Pateley Bridge cattle champion sells for 610p/kg

At the Christmas show and sale of prime cattle at Pateley Bridge the championship went to a 673kg Limousin heifer from Olivia Matten, Thirsk, which later sold for the top price of 610p/kg and £4,105.30/head, to the Judge Nick Dalby, Brimham Rocks, on behalf of Kendall's Quality Butchers, Pateley Bridge.

This heifer was bought by Olivia at Pateley Bridge for £1,800 in February 2023 from J.A. Butler, Rochdale.

The reserve championship went to a 680kg British Blue heifer from Rodney Bros, Healey, which sold for 505p/kg (£3,434) to Andrew Warren, Cleckheaton.

The steer championship was awarded to Matthew Brown, Bridlington, with a 661kg Limousin which sold for 395p/kg (£2,610.95) to R. Pearson Wholesale Butchers, Bradford.

Reserve steer was a 648kg Limousin from R. Anderson, Middleham, which sold for 415p/kg (£2689.20) to Kitsons Quality Butchers, Yarm.

Heifers averaged 403p/kg and steers averaged 350p/kg.

The prime lamb championship went to a pen of three 47kg Beltex from Rodney Brothers, which later sold for £260/head (553p/kg) to the judge, Harry Woods, Bowland Foods, Preston.

The reserve championship went to a pen of three 49kg Beltex lambs from Ellis Brothers, Addingham, which sold for £250/head (510p/kg) also to Bowland Foods, which sold paid £190 (510p/kg) for the winning single lamb, a 52kg Beltex from Rodney Bros.

The 140 lambs averaged 304.73p/kg.

Auctioneers: Barnard Castle and Teesdale Farmers Auction Mart Co.

Beltex claim Thirsk prime lamb championship

At Thirsk's Christmas show and sale the sheep championship was awarded to Dan Stainthorpe, Whitby, with a pair of 39kg Beltex which sold for £340 (872p/kg) to the judge Lee Reade for Field Fresh Trading, Conwy.

Alister Sutcliffe, Carlton in Cleveland, took home the reserve championship with his first prize single lamb which sold for £218 to Charles Ashbridge for Taste Tradition, Hutton Conyers.
The winning ewes were from the Wilson family, Kirkbymoorside, and sold for £230/head.
The prime cattle championship went to the Swann family, Little Ouseburn, with Limousin cross heifer which went onto sell to Phillip Marley's Butchers, Ripon and Richard Horner, Thirsk, for 590p/kg (£3,608).
The reserve champion went to the Marwood family, Leyburn, with a Limousin cross heifer which sold for 395p/kg to Knavesmire Butchers, York.

Auctioneers: Thirsk Farmers Auction Mart.

Champion tops Gisburn prime cattle at 600p/kg

A black 660kg Limousin steer from D.M. and R.E. Capstick, Skipton, won the championship at Gisburn's Christmas primestock show and sold for the top price of £3,636 (600p/kg). Having won the red rosette in the home-bred class, it sold to Lancaster based farm shop, Countrystyle Meats owned by Alan and Heather Beecroft, who are also on-site butchers at Gisburn mart.

Standing reserve, was the continental steer class winner, a 762kg Limousin from D.A. Wilcock and Sons, Ashton-in-Makerfield, which sold at 395p/kg (£3,010) to Harry Wood, Bowland Foods, Preston. Messrs Wilcock sold six steers and heifers averaging 572kg and a sale price of 382p/kg, and also won the Gisburn Auction Marts Trophy for the highest annual throughput in the beef ring at the market.

Young Farmers class winner was Rathmell YFC member Thomas Capstick won the A.M. and E. Hartley cup with a 556kg home-bred British Blue heifer which made 410p/kg (£2,280) to Whalley butcher, S.R. Hallworth.

A 522kg Limousin heifer from Paul Baines, Gisburn won the un-haltered class and realised 388p/kg (£2,025) to K. and J. Green Butchers, Chorley. The winner of the native breed class was a 528kg Angus heifer from T. K. Drinkall, Newton-le-Willows, which sold at 362p/kg (£1,911) to Simon Duerden on behalf of Brian Hodder Family Butchers, Clayton-le-Moors.

In the young bull class, prices peaked at £2,808 when an 826kg Limousin from Andy Rigby, Slaidburn, took the red rosette before selling at 340p/kg to Bowland Foods.

The store cattle champion was a 25-month-old red Limousin steer from P. Coates Farmers, Barrowford, which topped the sale at £1,800.

It was Bowland Foods' Peter Briggs who judged the prime lamb show and found his champion pen of three, in local vendors William and Michael Oldfield's 40kg Beltex which made 925p/kg (£370/head) to Countrystyle Meats. The reserve went to Anthony Thompson and family, Foulridge, whose 44kg Beltex lambs made £320/head, also to Countrystyle Meats.

D. and L. Coar, Darwen had the champion pen of cast ewes which sold at £200/head to Yorkshire Halal Meat Suppliers, with Mr Thompson's Beltex in reserve and selling at £215/head.

 Auctioneers: Gisburn Auction Marts.

Dairies to £3,000 at Skipton

At Skipton's Christmas dairy show and sale the championship went to Aytonian Annie 557, an October calver white heifer giving 30kg from H.S. Petch and Sons, Great Ayton. It sold for the day's top price of £3,000 to the judge, Kevin Midgley, Malton.

A Splendid Lucid Red-sired November calved heifer was second in the heifer in-milk class and followed on to be reserve champion for Robert and Matthew Webster, Stocksbridge, and made £2,600 when selling to Mark Goodall, Tong.

It was the end of an era when Sally Wellock and family, Oakworth, sold the last four black and whites from their Harehills herd and took first and second place in the in-calf heifer class with Denovo Outlay daughters, also topping the in-calf trade at £1,680 with their third heifer. The same price was achieved by one of three in-calf heifers consigned by Jack and Alan Wilson, Green Hammerton.

Bulling heifers sold to £950, again for Sally Wellock, which went to Rob Johnson, Felliscliffe.

Averages: 2 cows in-milk, £1,680; 16 heifers in-milk £2031; 6 in-calf heifers, £1,595; 9 maiden heifers, £843. 

Auctioneers: CCM.

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