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Blackface lambs top at £70,000 twice at Dalmally

Blackface rams sold to £70,000 at Dalmally sale with a record turnover for the sale of £1.34 million.The 193 ram lambs averaged £2774.92, while 476 aged rams and shearlings levelled at £1,690.90

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£70,000 ram lamb from the Dunlop family
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£70,000 ram lamb from the Dunlop family

 It was ram lambs which topped the sale with two making £70,000. The first was a Dalchirla lamb from Ian Hunter, Crieff. By a home-bred ram sold for £23,000 last year and out of a ewe by a £24,000 Connachan, it sold to Willie Dunlop and sons, Quintin and William, Elmscleugh, Dunbar.  

Matching the top price was the Dunlop family, Muirkirk, with a lamb by a £22,000 Dyke out of a ewe by £22,000 Auldhouseburn. The buyers were Richard Carruthers, Merkland, Thornhill, Hugh Rorison, Clonrae, and Rory Kerr, Drymen.

At £60,000 was a lamb from the Wights' Midlock flock, Crawford, by home-bred Emperor, which sold to an undisclosed buyer. John Murray, Crossflatt, Muirkirk, sold one by home-bred Titan at £50,000 to Malcolm Coubrough, Crawford, and Billy Renwick, Yarrow.

Best for Alastair McArthur's Nunnerie consignment, Elvanfoot, was £24,000, for a son of £90,000 Dalchirla, which went to Midlock.

Shearling rams peaked at £35,000 for  Duncan and Ashley MacGregor, Burnhead, Kilsyth, with a son of a £12,000 Dyke which sold to the Nunnerie and Dalchirla flocks.

The Midlock team sold shearlings to £30,000 for a son of £75,000 Dyke, which went to the Bennies' Merkins flock, Gartocharn.

Andrew Kay and sons, Andrew and Robert,  Gass, sold shearling rams at £30,000, £20,000 and £17,000. The £30,000 seller, by a £48,000 Midlock, went to the Elmscleugh flock, while the one at £20,000, by the same sire, went to Neil Manning, Morpeth, and a son of £26,000 Gass, sold at £17,000 to Ewen Macmillan, Lurg, Fintry.

 Auctioneers: United Auctions.

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