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RECORD PRICE OF 1200GNS FOR RAM AT STONELEIGH SHOW AND SALE....
STONELEIGH SHOW AND SALE 2009
Judge: Roger Elliott Kislingbury, Northamptonshire.
The first Stoneleigh show and sale held on Saturday 19th September 2009 saw a bumper trade for the sheep on offer with buyers coming from all over the country to choose their sheep at this prestigious event.
In the show the ewes were first to be judged with Lyn Davies winning all the ewe classes with his homebred sheep, his shearling ewe taking the champion ewe cup and his ewe lamb the reserve. Then it was on the rams with RJ Thomas of Anglesey winning the ram lamb and shearling ram classes and Stuart Brodie taking the cup for the group of three ram lambs. Jenny Grant Parkes won the ram class and then went on to take both the cup for the champion male and the rosette for the supreme champion in the show.
A packed sale ring saw keen bidding for all the ewes on sale with a top price of 250gns for Jenny Grant Parkes’ shearling ewe selling to M Adams of Market Harborough. Average prices for ewe lambs were 110gns shearling ewes 174gns and older ewes 152gns. The first male to be sold was the supreme champion Newland Dodge selling for a Society record price of 1200gns to TJ & J Watsham of West Hoathly, Sussex. Bidding then went on to a top price of 650gns for R J Thomas’ ram lamb selling to Havard & Co of Droitwich, the remainder of the lambs averaging 204gns. A good result followed for Roger Elliott with a shearling ram topping the class selling for 800gns selling to EA & CC Girvan of Invernesshire, and another selling for 600gns. The rest of the shearling rams averaged 333gns and the older rams £348gns. Thanks go to the judge Roger Elliott, the vendors and buyers for making the sale such a resounding success and to Simon Draper of Rugby Farmer’s Mart and his team for their help in organizing the event. Teresa Hodgkinson, Steward
SHOW RESULTS
EWE LAMB 1st DDL Davies 2nd DDL Davies 3rd DDL Davies 4th J Grant Parkes
GROUP OF 3 EWE LAMBS DDL Davies
SHEARLING EWE 1ST DDL Davies 2nd M Newell 3rd N&T Hodgkinson 4th J Grant Parkes
CHAMPION EWE DDL Davies
RESERVE DDL Davies
RAM LAMB 1st RJ Thomas 2nd S Brodie 3rd J Jeyes 4th S Brodie
GROUP OF 3 RAM LAMBS S Brodie
SHEARLING RAM 1st RJ Thomas 2nd W Roberts 3rd J Brigg 4th York King Ltd
OLDER RAM 1st J Grant Parkes 2nd C Hill
CHAMPION MALE J Grant Parkes
RESERVE RJ Thomas
SUPREME CHAMPION J Grant Parkes
Submitted: 25-09-2009
