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IRISH handler Mick Burke, of Hollywood village in west County Wicklow, starred at Skipton Auction Mart’s September timed online sale of working…

World Record for Sheepdog Pup at Skipton Sale Welshman Kevin Evans was top dog on price yet again at Skipton Auction Mart’s first online working sheep dog sale of 2021, selling three fully broken dogs for a combined £35,600, while his father David established a new world record price of £6,100 for an unbroken pup. While none of the top-notch Evans trio was able to get near the £20,000 all-time world record price he established at Skipton last autumn with a red bitch, Henna, almost four-yea...

A Powys sheepdog trialist has set a new world record price after selling an unbroken pup for £6,100. David Evans, who farms at Penclyn, Brecon, sold 11-week-old black and white Border Collie, Bet, at the Skipton online sheepdog sale. Bet is about to embark on a new life with an unnamed buyer in Wales. David smashed the previous unbroken sale record of £3,700 by Northern Ireland’s Donal Mullaney at Skipton last October. He also hit £3,800 – that too would have been a new world r...

WELSHMAN Kevin Evans was top dog on price yet again at Skipton Auction Mart’s first online working sheep dog sale of 2021, selling three fully broken dogs for a combined £35,600, while his father David established a new world record price of £6,100 for an unbroken pup. While none of the top-notch Evans trio was able to get near the £20,000 all-time world record price he established at Skipton last autumn with a red bitch, Henna, almost four-years-old, all three dogs at the latest sale ...