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A new breed record was set at the annual Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association ‘C’ District ram sale at Kirkby Stephen last Thursday.
Champion winner from Rigg Farm sold for a new record price of £4800 Centre records were smashed at Harrison and Hetherington's show and sale of store cattle at Middleton in Teesdale, when a British Blue heifer from JC and J White, Rigg Farm, secured the championship and sold for a new high of £4800. Judge Andrew Richardson, Appleby, found his champion in a Blue heifer by Oak Tree Gowery, bred from a pure-bred Limousin cow, which sold to David Jarman, who intends to breed from her at Brow Top. Rigg Farm also bagged the reserve honours with a black heifer of similar parentage which sold...