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THE pedigree Texel flock from Procters Farm took the three leading prices at Skipton Auction Mart’s first pedigree fixture of 2021, the 28th annual open winter sale of Texel females for members of Northern Area Texel Sheep Breeders. With planned show classes cancelled, Jeff Aiken, flock manager at Procters Farm, based at Moss House Farm, Wennington, close to the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, hit the headlines when stepping up with a high price in-lamb shearling ewe hat-trick, leading the way at 3,200gns with a March, 2019, daughter of the highly-acclaimed Garngour Alabama son, Sportsmans Batman, a notable 100,000gns purchase last year. Out of a Teiglum Younggun dam and a full sister to the Procters Farm 14,000gns sale topper at the January Gems sale in Ballymena the previous week, the Skipton top price performer, scanned carrying a single lamb to the Sportsmans Catapult son, Llyfni Droog, found a new home in Shropshire with Ben Lowe. ....
AN excellent start to the pedigree year at Skipton was complemented by a brand-new fixture. The inaugural ‘Blue Diamonds’ winter sale of 15 pedigree in-lamb Blue Texel females which had created keen pre-sale interest and selling prices certainly backed up this optimism. Mother and daughter, Elaine and Issy Hartley, from the Pendle flock in Roughlee, Nelson, were the headline performers with a brace of February-born ewe lambs that both made four figure prices. First up and selling at 1,100gns was Pendle Emma, by Sams Cosmos, a winner of many male championships and part of the interbreed champion pairs and groups of three in 2019. ....