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Dark Diamond Suffolks top at 12,000gns

Cairnton flock leads trade with a ewe lamb

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Ewe lamb from Cairnton flock which sold for 12,000gns
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Ewe lamb from Cairnton flock which sold for 12,000gns

Topping the Dark Diamonds show and sale of pedigree Suffolk females at 12,000gns was a ewe lamb from John Gibb's Cairnton flock, Fraserburgh, which had been reserve champion at the Scottish Nationals. By Bridgeview Belvenie out of a home-bred daughter of Millhouse Remarkable, it sold to Messrs Theyer, Oxfordshire.

Next at 10,000gns was a gimmer by Howgillfoot Sniper out of a dam by Crewelands Kingpin from Graeme Christie, Inverurie. It sold, carrying twins to Castleisle Blackadder to Stephen Cobald, Suffolk.

Gimmer from Graeme Christie which sold for 10,000gns
Gimmer from Graeme Christie which sold for 10,000gns

Messrs Boden, Stockport, then paid 9,000gns for a ewe lamb by Rookery The King out of a Birness Freedom daughter from George Stuart's Birness flock, Ellon, and 5,500gns for a ewe lamb by ÌýSportsmans 5 out of a Limestone Legacy sired dam from the same home.

Ewe lamb from Birness flock which sold for 9,000gns
Ewe lamb from Birness flock which sold for 9,000gns

A gimmer by Cairness McCoy in-lamb with a single to Cairnton Ninety Nine from Jimmy Douglas' Cairness flock, Fraserburgh, sold for 7,000gns to Messrs Moir, Fraserburgh.

ÌýAverages - 65 shearling gimmers, £1,646.07; 20 ewe lambs, £2,921.62; 1 recipient carrying a pregnancy, £1,260.

ÌýAuctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

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