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Hazelberry flock leads Dutch Spotted sale

Females led the trade at the Dutch Spotted Sheep Society show and sale at Carlisle when selling to 18,000gns

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
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Hazelberry Heaven
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Hazelberry Heaven

The sale topper was the winning ewe lamb and female and overall champion, Hazelberry Heaven, a Drumhirk Decider daughter out of Hazelberry Felicia from Callum Dodd, Lockerbie. The buyer was Messrs Johnston, Fivemiletown, Co Tyrone.

The first prize winning shearling gimmer, Glan-Y-Mor Gift by Drumard Everest from the Jones family, Talsarnau, Gwynedd, sold for 4,000gns to Messrs Difford, Nelson, Mid-Glamorgan.

Glan-Y-Mor Gift

Messrs Tomlinson, Ashbourne, then paid 3,500gns for the second prize shearling gimmer, Lochlad Garland by a Hiroshima imported sire from A. and P. Parker, Lockerbie.

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Rams sold to 5,000gns for the winning shearling and reserve male champion, Hazelberry Gaffer, a Carlaustan Everest son consigned by Messrs Dodds which was knocked down to Messrs Roberts, Shrewsbury.

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Hazelberry Gaffer

Making 4,000gns from the Jones family was the fourth prize shearling ram Glan-Y-Mor Goldstar by Glencoy Chance which sold to Robertson's 51AVÊÓÆµShop, Bradford.

The winning ram lamb, Glencoy Halfwit by Flash, an imported ram from Liam Campbell, Ballymena, made 3,200gns to Messrs Foster, Barnard Castle.

Averages - 4 aged rams, £1,089.38; 32 shearling rams, £888.56; 49 ram lambs, £784.29; 5 aged ewes, £640.50; 91 shearling gimmers, £834.35; 54 ewe lambs, £1,068.86.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

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