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Bonanza Sale
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East Down Bonanza Sale
SUFFOLKS

› Champion
A collective sale of Suf
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A collective sale of Suf
A collective sale of Suf
Mark Priestley,
judge Trevor A collective sale of Suf
Robinson
Saturday 2nd November 2019 at 1pm

100 FEMALES FOR SALE

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› Sale Champion B&C Dickson Judge Philip Gurney

he East Down Suffolk Club is able to reflect on another who presented the champion of the show, a gimmer from his
hugely successful year. Within the catchment area we Limestone flock. It was a Ram lamb from the same stable who SOLD FOR
Tare seeing an increase in new and younger breeders took the reserve ribbons. 3,500gns
who hopefully will filter into our membership if they are not The annual trip/flock visit was this year held in July. With the 44 GIMMERS
already part of our expanding members book. members travelling to Tullywhinney, Islandmoyle and Limestone BY BURNVIEW AVERAGED £1,104
SUFFOLKS
We commenced 2018 with a blast from the past, an evening flocks, a great day was had by all and those who travelled around
listening to our founder members William Montgomery and were treated to some spectacular stock that went onto achieve 25 FLOCK EWES
George Patton. The younger members and those who are a little high prices at the Society sales.
bit older, were treated to some facts about the club origins and The annual show and sale was next on the agenda and once AVERAGED £756
reasons for establishing the East Down Suffolk Club. again we held our sale on the same evening as the Texel Sheep
The year moved quite quickly then with the Flock Competition Society. The sale was hard at times with the same trend in the 17 EWE LAMBS
taking place in June. We were indebited to Mr Martin Butler, other breeds as well. The pre sale show was judged by Philip AVERAGED £1,172
Castlewood Flock who kindly agreed to judge the flock Gurney, who chose his champion from the Islandmoyle flock
competition for us. This year’s winner was Mark Priestley, of B&C Dickson. The reserve ribbons were awarded to William 86 FEMALES
Limestone. Mark also won the award for the pen of ewe lambs Montgomery.
and his ram Strathbogie A Kind Of Magic was the Champion The year ended with a super meal and a bit of craic at the AVERAGED £1,016
stock ram. The Reserve award was scooped by William annual dinner and awards night which saw a good attendance. BURNVIEW GIMMER
Montgomery, Smiddiehill. Throughout the year there were achievements by our club
The BBQ and Club Championships were once again held at members at local shows, Balmoral Show and the Society sales
the premises of the Smiddiehill flock and the evening brought but special mention must go to Mark Priestley, Limestone who
great weather and lots of people and sheep. Trevor Robinson was produced the 2018 Stirling Champion which went into the sales Contact William: 07833 968 417
our prestigious judge for the evening and it was Mark Priestley ring and reached the Northern Ireland record price of 40,000gns.
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