Kelso Ram Sales ’17
A successful day at Kelso Ram Sales saw 4452 rams sell to average £709.63 and an 82% clearance. Top price was £23,000 for a Texel shearling from the Wights at Midlock, who also led the Bluefaced Leicester section, selling a shearling at £12,000.
We ended up taking mainly Texels, as there was a steady stream of them heading out to be photographed. See below for some of the top priced lots, with more in the Photo Sales section.
Sale topper at £23,000 from Midlock, by a home-bred son of Sportsmans Unbeatable, sold to John Elliot, Jonathan Watson and Mike & Melanie Alford
Top price Bluefaced Leicester from Midlock, by a £34,000 Kirkby Redgate sire, sold to the Kays at Hartside, Lauder
At £9000 from J & E Campbell, Rosebrough, was this son of Forkins Viagra, which sold to Procters
Also at £9000, this one from Steven Renwick’s Craig Douglas pen, by Haddo Whisky Galore, sold to AE Williams & Son
At £8000, this son of Scrogton Vulcan from Iain Minto, Townhead, sold to the Harehead and Blackadder flocks
Making £7000 was this one from Jonathan Watson, Bowsden Moor, a Haymount Vava Voom son which sold to the Scotts at Fearn Farm
Best for Loosebeare was this Loosebeare Voomer son which made £6500 to AR Bell & Son
Elmscleugh sold this one at £6000, a Milnbank Wisconsin son which went to Peter & Lynn Gray
Cambwell’s £5800 seller, a Cambwell Trademark son, which sold to Will Case, Nab Point
Also at £5800, from Blackadder, a Hartside Utopia son, which sold to JM Carlile
Another from Jonathan Watson’s Brijon flock, this Brackenridge Strongbow son sold at £5800 to the Loosebeare and Whitehart flocks
Midlock’s £5000 seller, by Deveronvale Warrior, went to Brian McAllister
Garngour sold this Mossvale Winston son at £4500 to the Sutherlands at Stainland and Sibmister Farms
Top price Texel lamb, a Ballynahone Yorkie son from Strawfrank, sold at £4400 to Russel & Gill Watkins’ Millend flock
Top price Beltex, from the Buckles, by Buckles Absolute, sold at £3200 to JM Hall, Scosthrop Farm
Top price Cheviot, at £1300, a Synton Springbok son from Allanshaws
View all the photographs taken in the Photo Sales section.
