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Contributing to the family's average of £5,914 for 14 rams, the two-shear Shelfhill by Eskdale Dulux – which is in turn by Mainside Yielder – sold in a two-way slit to Messrs Common, Crossdykes flock, Lockerbie, and Messrs Bridgewater and Wood, Potholm flock, Crawford, Biggar.

Messrs Common received £16,000 from Messrs Paton, Castle Crawford flock, Biggar, for a shearling by Mainside Director.

Norman and David Douglas, Clatslack flock, Selkirk, saw their shearling by Crossdykes Talisman sell to Jim Robertson, Becks flock, Langholm, for £14,000.

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Messrs Douglas paid £12,000 for a Kale Dynamite-sired two-shear from Messrs Warden.

Six rams sold for £10,000 apiece with the first being a Toftholm Lord-sired shearling from Blair and Morag Cockburn's Stirkfield flock, Biggar, which sold to Messrs Halliday and Sons, Moffat.

Messrs Tennant, Gilmanscleugh, Selkirk, paid £10,000 for a Sundhope Quattro-sired shearling from J. Hume and Son, Sundhope flock, Yarrow, with another at £10,000 being a Glendinning Invictus-sired two-shear from Messrs Paton which sold to Messrs McArthur, Tarbert, Argyll.

Next at £10,000 was another Mainstay Director son from Crossdykes which sold to Mainstay Farming, Penrith.

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Messrs Douglas sold the remaining two at £10,000. First when sold in a split to Messrs Common, Crossdykes, and Bowmont Farming, Kelso, was a Catslack Jupiter-sired two-shear, while the other which sold to Messrs Douglas and Son, Hindhope flock, Jedburgh, was a Catslack Kingpin-sired shearling.

Averages – 128 two-shear rams, £2,096.48 (+£280.25 on the year); 280 shearling rams, £1,674.26 (+£173.32).

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.