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Northern Ireland Texel Sheep Breeders ClubCo Antrim Texel Sale prices peak at £4935Club Sale - Saturday 6th September 2008 The confidence shown by breeders in the Texel was evident at the NI Texel Club Show and Sale held in Ballymena Mart on Saturday past. Prices peaked at £4935 when breeder Adrian Liggett purchased Backburn Otto for his Corbo flock in Fintona. Otto, bred by David Jones, Antrim is a smart Castlecairn Kennedy son from a Sweetwall Gigolo ewe. Castlecairn Kennedy also featured strongly in the pedigree of the second highest price of the day, when local breeder James Adams, sold his Kennedy grandson sired by Forkins Mr Muscle out of a Brague IOU dam through the ring to a price of £3150 – Kerryhill Ozone joins the Ballymarlow flock of Geoffrey Fleck.
Judge John Foster, Castlederg, chose his Champion from the pen of Jim Wilson, Crumlin; this stylish Mellorvale Masterpiece lamb was shown in the open class, while the first placed lamb in the Recorded class, a Castlecairn Keltic son shown by John Currie, Tullagh flock, Ballymena was awarded the Reserve Championship. Later both these lambs passed through the ring selling to almost £580. Overall 109 ram lambs sold to an average price of £340. The shearling ring also experienced quick trade for quality stock with the first placed shearling ram, shown by Henry Gamble, Bangor realising almost £790 in the ring while Richard Henderson, Tobermore his shearling entry to a price of £715 overall 62 shearling rams sold to an average of £424. Mary Clarke, Dundonald dominated the
female ring selling a Clonallen Key daughter for £420 while the
other gimmer in her pen sold to £263. Open Ram Lamb Class Shearling Ewe Shearling Rams
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