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North Country Cheviot sale smashes records

The main prizewinners and judges at the Quoybrae sale in Caithness.
The main prizewinners and judges at the Quoybrae sale in Caithness.

Records were smashed at the North Country Cheviot sale at Quoybrae in Caithness when a shearling ram from the Campbell family’s Bardnaclavan flock from Thurso sold for £11,000.

Bardnaclavan Cooper by Cairnside Action Man was the pre-sale show champion and was bought by R & N Barclay, Hare-stone, Banchory, and Stewie Sleigh, Wells Flock, Fyvie.

Cooper beat the £9,500 centre record which had only been set hours earlier in the day by J & J Smith, Upper Cornquoy, Holm, for Upper Cornquoy Classic by Durran Ace which sold to Andrew Polson, Smerlie, Roadside.

Bardnaclavan Cooper was the pre-sale show champion.

The reserve champion was a shearling, Biggins Classis by Upper Cornquoy Athletic from James S Biggins, Killimster, Wick, which sold for £5,000 to D & E Waugh, Effgill, Westerkirk.

The Campbells also sold Bardnaclavan Challenger for £5,000 to J S Baillie & Son, Sebay, Tankerness, followed by Mr Smith’s Upper Cornquoy Cosmopolitan, which sold for £3,500.

A total of 85 rams sold to average £1,282.56 (+£160.13) against £1,122.43 for 74 last year, four ram lambs averaged £683.33 (N/C) and four gimmers to average £681.66 (+£243.34).

Upper Cornquoy Classic went for £9,500.

Leading flock averages: Bardnaclavan top price £11,000 average £2,350 for 10 (£1,775 for 10 last year); Sebay Farm £2,500 average £1,075 for (£1,518.75 for 8)Roadside; Smerlie £2,800 average £1,212.50 for 4 (£1.458.33 for 6); Longoe Farm £ 2,200 average £1116.66 for 6 (£1,400 for 8); Biggins £1,500 average £766.66 for 6 (£1150 for 10); Achscrabster £2,600 average £955.55 for 9 (£936 for 5); Upper Cornquoy £9,500 averaged £2528.57 for 7; Oldfield Farm £750 average £516 for 3 (£900 for 1); Boultach £1,000 average £725 for 4 (£800 for 2); Cairnside £1,100 average £800 for 6 (£700 for 3); Garson Farms £850 average £850 for one.

Gimmers sold to £2,000 from D N Campbell & Sons to M Thomas, Knowle Farm, New Radnor.

Prize List

Ram Lamb: 1 C & I Angus, Oldfield, Thurso, 2. Garson Farms, Garson, Orkney, 3 C & I Angus, Oldfield, Thurso, 4 R & K Sutherland, Hilliclay, Thurso.

Shearling Ram: 1 D N Campbell & Sons, Bardnaclavan, Westfield, 2 J & W Mackay, Biggins, Killimster, 3 J Mackay, Henderson Square, Watten, 4 A G Simpson, Cairnside, Watten, 5 A Polson, Roadside, Smerlie, 6 J S Baillie & Co, Sebay.

Group of three Shearling Rams – D N Campbell & Sons, Bardnaclavan, Westfield, 2 J & J Smith, Upper Cornquoy, Orkney, 3 Messrs H Mill, Achscrabster, Thurso, 4 The Queen Elizabeth Castle of Mey Trust, Longoe Farm, Mey, 5 A G Simpson, Cairnside, Watten.

Females: 1. R & K Sutherland, Hilliclay, Thurso, 2 D N Campbell & Sons, Bardnaclavan, Westfield, 3 R & K Sutherland, Hilliclay, Thurso, 4 R & K Sutherland, Hilliclay, 5 R & K Sutherland, Hilliclay.

Group of five shearling Rams 1 J & W Mackay, Biggins, 2 D N Campbell & Sons, Bardnaclavan, 3 Messrs H Mill, Achscrabster, Thurso

Overall Group – D N Campbell & Sons, Bardnaclavan, reserve J & W Mackay, Biggins.