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Hexham Ram Sale

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HEXHAM RAM SALE


Averages: 212 shearlings, £1123.


A top price of £6500, coupled with another two at £6000, made for a buoyant sale of Blackface rams at Hexham and Northern Marts’ sale at Hexham.


Sale leader was a shearling ram from Robert and Richard Airey, Brownchesters. A son of a Stuart Robson, High Leam-bred sheep, he sold jointly to Edges Green team and Messrs Robson, Townshields.


Hitting the £6000 mark was a shearling son of a Milnmark sire from Andrew and Sam Murray and Sons, of Stell Green (West Dean Raw) enterprise. It sold to Messrs Armstrong and Hunter, Carrick and Andrew Hunter, The Steel. Their No 3, by a Hot Bank ram made £3000 to Andrew Gibson, Thornton Tower.


Also making £6000 was the No 2 from The Lamperts, managed by Craig Ballantine. The tup, by a Frank Hall ram sold to brothers Jamie and Andrew Murray; Sewingshields and Stell Green.


On the other side of the coin, Stell Green sold their winning Scotch-type ram for £3500 to Annabelle Morshead, Nilston Rigg. It is sired by a Wester Crosswoodhill ram.


The overall champion selected by Finlay Robertson, Crosswoodhill, West Calder, from W Walton, Toft House, made £4000 selling to the shearling judge, Willie Walton, Penpeugh. He is sired by a £10,000 Frank Hall-bred sheep.


Also making £6000 was the shearling from Lamperts. Another from Toft House, by the same sire, made £5000 when selling to Charlie Halbert, Prospect House.


Richard Thompson, Keepers Cottage made the long trip from Tomatin, Inverness with his first pen of rams from Clune and Corrybrough. Both were sired by the £5500 Wanwood Hill and sold at £1800 to The Lamperts and at £1400 to Jamie Wood, Prendwick, respectively.

 

TOP PRICES

6500 Brownchesters to Edges Green & Townshields

6000 Stell Green to Carrick & Steel

6000 Lampert to Stell Green & Sewingshiels

5000 Tofthouse to Greenmerse & Prospect House

5000 Tofthouse to Shitlington Hall

4000 Tofthouse to Penpeugh

3500 Stell Green to Harsondale & Nilston Rigg

3500 Hot Bank to Carrick & Steel

3200 Tofthouse to Shepherds Croft & Hot Bank

3200 Stell Green to Thornton Tower

3000 Shepherds Croft to Hotbank

3000 Cowden Burn to Townshields

3000 Harsondale to Shepherds Croft & Townshields

2800 Stell Green to FR & AL Lyth

2800 Brieredge to Toft House

2800 Hot Bank to Camphill

2600 Troughend to Horseupcleugh

2600 Shitlington Hall to Wanwood Hill

2500 Harsondale to Clennell Hill

2400 Yatesfield to GT Nicholson & Sons

2400 The Dunns to Burtlyshields

2400 Shepherds Croft to A & J Richardson

2400 Edges Green to E Thoburn & Son

2400 The Lampert to Crew

 

 

Flock Averages

FLOCK (NO)

TOP (£)

AVERAGE (£)

Prospect House (4)

1800

1125.00

Stell Green WDR (7)

6000

2214.00

Keepers Cottage (3)

1800

1266.00

Whiteside (7)

2200

1092.00

Mouldyhills (3)

1600

1000.00

Yatesfield (14)

2400

1350.00

Wanwood Hill (5)

2000

1280.00

Sewingshields (10)

2200

1370.00

Shepherds Croft (4)

3000

2125.00

Carrick (5)

2400

1600.00

The Hole (3)

1700

1266.00

Edges Green (4)

2400

1575.00

Brownchesters (6)

6500

2366.00

Toft House (7)

5000

2907.00

Cowden Burn (3)

3000

1633.00

Hot Bank (8)

3500

1637.00

Harsondale (5)

3000

1510.00

The Lamperts (6)

6000

1933.00

Dudlees (6)

2200

1116.00

Quarry House (4)

1900

1000.00

Stell Green (4)

3500

1837.00

 

 

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