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Ram sales
› Reserve Champion
Ring 8: Shearling Ram
Lot 2972 from Messrs
Kelso Show and Sale Gray & Son

12th September 2019

Judge: Peter Derryman
Sponsor: Harbro › Lot 2799 Shearling sold for £4,000 from Fiona Wight › Lot 2951 Shearling sold for £4,500 from Peter Gray

s the leading domestic terminal sire breed in the UK and highest price in the Shearling ring with her ram getting £4,000 and more evidence of the role Suffolks play in the Commercial world.” Flock). Lilburn Estates (Roseden Flock) was runner up in the Ram
Ireland, the Suffolk breed has dominated the ram lamb selling her pen of 14 with an average of £1,014. The MV registered There is always confusion to rings being classified as Lamb Class and in the Shearling Class E A & L Jackson (Rugley
Arings at Kelso in recent years and 2019 continued that shearlings in ring 8 cleared 208 sheep with an average of £789, “Registered” or “Non Registered”. This is not an indication Flock) lifted the Reserve ticket. The results were:
trend. up £92 on 2018. Ring 14, which is for non MV accredited Suffolks, of Society membership, it simply relates to the Maedi Visna Lamb Class
Suffolks accounted for 48% of all lamb sales. Top price for any sold 411 shearlings at an average of £636. Society members selling Accreditation scheme. Registered rings refer to a ring where all 1st S Buckley (Sitlow) Lot 3560
ram lamb at Kelso on the day was S Lathangie (Pyeston) getting through the non-accredited ring 14 sold 74 shearlings for an vendors must be in the MV scheme and Non Registered refers to a 2nd Lilburn Estates (Roseden) Lot 3651
£6,000, sold to Lancashire breeder L J Berry. Next was Stephen average of £796 with J Elliott (Roxburgh Mains) getting an average ring were breeders sell sheep that are not required to be in the MV 3rd W & H Fleming (Hallhill) Lot 3483
Buckley’s Champion getting £4,000 for his Sitlow ram lamb, the of £953 for his pen of 35. scheme. Some members choose to sell their accredited sheep in the
second top price for any lamb this year. Other notable sales in the Suffolk Sheep Society Chief Executive Robin McIlrath said “it non-registered ring. Shearling Class
Ram Lamb ring were R H Black (Collessie flock) and S & G Brown has been a really good sale this year for the ram lamb ring. Once 1st Messrs A Gray & Son (Langside) Lot 2972
(Capielaw Flock) getting £2,500 and £2,100 respectively. 250 lambs again Suffolks dominate with the two top prices of £6,000 for all Show 2nd E A & L Jackson (Rugley) Lot 2825
were sold this year, an 18% increase on 2018 with an average of lamb sold and with Suffolks accounting for nearly 50% of all ram Once again, there was considerable interest in the Harbro 3rd S & H Illingworth (Glenrock) Lot 2865
£476. Stephen Buckley (Sitlow) achieved the top average of £1197 lamb sales at Kelso. Although there were less Shearlings through Sponsored Suffolk Pedigree Show held on the eve of the sale. Judge
selling six rams with a top price of £4,000. Stewart Lathangie the accredited ring this year the average was up by £92.” He went Peter Derryman (Mount Pleasant Farm, Devon) had a challenge Breed Champion
(Pyeston) was hot on his tails with eight ram lambs sold at an on to say “the Kelso sale is used by many as a benchmark for the picking the winners with some excellent stock brought forward in
average of £1,127 and a top price of £6,000. commercial trade and we are delighted with this year’s trade – both the Shearling and Lamb classes. Congratulations to Stephen S Buckley (Sitlow) Lot 3560
Peter Gray (Scrogton) was the top performer in Ring 8 (MV lambs dominated with an increase on the number of lambs sold, and Louise Buckley (Sitlow Flock) for winning the Breed Champion Reserve Breed Champion
accredited Shearlings), clearing 12 sheep at an average of £1,404 the top 2 prices at the sale and nearly 50% of the overall lamb with a Ram Lamb (Lot 3560). The Reserve Champion from Ring
with a top price of £4,500. Fiona Wight (Wights) had the second trade. With shearlings increasing their average by over £90, this is 8 was Messrs A Gray & Son’s Shearling Ram Lot 2972 (Langside Messrs A Gray & Son (Langside) Lot 2972

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› Champion Ring 10: Suffolk Ram Lamb Lot 3560 from S Buckley Sitlow

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