23 August 2019

Texel – Lanark ’19

Texel ram lambs met a phenomonal trade at the Scottish National show and sale at Lanark, with 342 averaging out at £3385.46 and prices peaking at 200,000gns for the Wight family’s Midlock Capaldi, at the very end of the sale.

Despite being unshown in the pre-sale show, his exceptional carcase and character qualities made him the most talked about and clearly the most desired lamb of the 500+ in the market, and this resulted in a bidding war which was won by two of the biggest spenders in the breed, Auldhouseburn and Sportsmans, who teamed up to secure him at 200,000gns – the second highest price paid for a Texel ram.

The Wights are renowned for their stocksmanship abilities and consistency across the various breeds that they run at Midlock, but within the Texels, this price far surpasses the previous best of 24,000gns that Allan, Karen, Ben, Andrew and Katie received for Midlock Yorkie in 2016. They said they knew he was something special from just two weeks old and their inkling certainly proved true.

Capaldi is a son of the 12,000gns Knock Bantastic, a ram purchased jointly at Carlisle last year, while the dam is by the 32,000gns Mullan Amigo and out of a ewe bought privately from Garngour in 2016.

At the pre-sale show, it was Garngour Craftsman, from Alan, Andrew and David Clark, that caught the eye of judge, Charlie Boden, and he liked him so much that he bought him too, for the day’s second top price of 65,000gns. He is by last year’s 17,000gns Lanark purchase, Silvermere Baltic and out of a Mossvale Winston daughter that also bred the 40,000gns Garngour Alabama, two years ago.

A further 20 lots hit five-figures in a sale which saw a 65% clearance rate. Below are pictures of the top priced lots, followed by a list of leading averages, but to view the full selection of photographs taken, head to our Photo Sales.