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During an almost 10-hour selling stint it was a Dalchirla shearling from Ian Hunter, Crieff, that set that record of £170,000 when sold to David, Iain and Alastair McArthur for their 1,400-ewe Arnicle flock, Glenbarr, with a half-share retained.

The record-setter is sired by an £18,000 Glenrath and out of a ewe by a home-bred grandson of a £45,000 Nunnerie.

Dalchirla received a further £60,000 from Sam McClymont, Tinnis, Yarrow, and the Paterson family, Dunruchan, Crieff, for a son of a £26,000 Gass.

The Bennie family, Merkins flock, Gartocharn, welcomed £40,000 from the Wight family, Midlock, Crawford, for a shearling by a £22,000 Midlock and out of a ewe by a £70,000 Dalchirla.

Ram lambs

Ram lambs reached £40,000 for a son of the £72,000 Auldhouseburn, from the Auldhouseburn stable of Hugh and Alan Blackwood, Muirkirk. It sold to Charlie Harkin, Rock flock, Co Tyrone.

Thomas Muirhead's Orchilmore flock, Blair Atholl, peaked at £38,000 for a son of an £18,000 Loughash which sold to the Bennie family, Merkins.

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Stuart Barclay, Harestone, Aberdeenshire, paid £35,000 for a Dalchirla lamb by a £13,000 Dyke, with another Dalchirla lamb, this time by the £17,000 shearling, selling to a consortium of buyers for £32,000.

Also making £32,000 was a Nunnerie lamb by a £19,000 Elmscleugh from the MacArthurs, Biggar, which sold to the Dunlops, Elmscleugh flock, Dunbar.Ìý

Averages – 608 shearling rams, £2,281.27 (+£487 on 2025); 156 ram lambs, £3,940.89 (+£1,063).

Auctioneers: United Auctions.Ìý

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