LAWRIE & SYMINGTON LTD, LANARK AGRICULTURAL CENTRE
SCOTTISH CLUB SHOW & SALE OF HAMPSHIRE DOWN SHEEP (On behalf of Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders’ Association – Scottish Club)
Friday 30th May 2025
Judge: Mr Graham Galbraith, Graylen flock
Sponsor: Hamilton Ross Group and Galloway & MacLeod Ltd
Class 1: Shearling Ram (4 forward)
1st Lot 3 Glen Etive
2nd Lot 4 Bridgehaugh
3rd Lot 2 Glaick
4th Lot 5 Portpatrick
Class 2: Ram Lamb (6 forward)
1st Lot 10 Bridgehaugh
2nd Lot 20 Lecropt
3rd Lot 8 Bridgehaugh
4th Lot 14 Roadinghead
Class 3: Gimmer (8 forward)
1st Lot 39 Powblack
2nd Lot 40 Powblack
3rd Lot 48 Lecropt
4th Lot 32 Maranatha
Class 4: Ewe Lamb (9 forward)
1st Lot 64 Powblack
2nd Lot 50 Caerlaverock
3rd Lot 52 Roadinghead
4th Lot 66 (Sub) Bridgehaugh
Female Champion: Lot 39 (Gimmer) from Messrs Steel, Powblack
Reserve Female Champion: Lot 64 (Ewe Lamb) from Messrs Steel, Powblack
Male Champion: Lot 3 (Shearling Ram) from Messrs MacKinnon, Glen Etive
Reserve Male Champion: Lot 10 (Ram Lamb) from Messrs Taylor, Bridgehaugh
Overall Champion: Lot 3 (Shearling Ram) from Messrs MacKinnon, Glen Etive
Reserve Overall Champion: Lot 39 (Gimmer) from Messrs Steel, Powblack
SALE REPORT:
Lawrie & Symington Ltd held their Inaugural Show & Sale of Hampshire Down Sheep on behalf of the Scottish Club.
An excellent entry of sheep saw a tremendous clearance with the best sheep easily sold with plenty of keen bidding. A great success and will surely be able to be built upon.
The sale topped at 1,800gns was the Ram Lamb from the Graylen flock. Missing the Pre-Sale Show due to judging himself, this lamb from Graham and Judith Galbraith is sired by their homebred ram, Graylen Quartermaster. This lamb was out of a 2019-born dam sired by Benniworth Rupert. Taking home the top price was Findlay Crocker, Speediehill, Perth.
At 1,350gns and topping the Gimmer Section was the Powblack flock from Bruce & Irene Steel based in Stirling. Sired by Powblack Gaelic Prine, and out of a Eastfortune Furlough 2022-born daughter. She also heads to Speediehill with Messrs Crocker.
Matching the price and again from Powblack was their third catalogued gimmer. The time sister to their opening entry and also heads home with Messrs Crocker.
The Reserve Male Champion was the Ram Lamb at 1,100gns from David Taylor, Bridgehaugh, based in Earlston. A son of Bridgehaugh Quinn, he is out of a homebred 2021-born daughter by Lumb Laird. He head to Raindale Head Farm in Pickering with Messrs I & S Clough.
Back in the limelight with gimmers, was the Powblack flock from the Steel family with their last entry in their run of Gimmers who stood 2nd in the Pre-Sale Show. Sired by Eastfortune Furlough, this one is out of a homebred 2019-born ewe and sired by Isleofbute Oberon. She now joins the Caerlaverock flock with Liz and Steven Brown, Dumfries.
David Taylor also received 1,000gns for his third gimmer entry. Sired by 4,600gns Graylen Officer, she is out of a Raburn ewe sired by Normanby Quartermaster. She heads home with Ian and Annette Dixon, Cantsfield in Carnforth.
Other Leading Prices:
Shearling Rams:
600gns – Glen Etive from Eilidh & Innes MacKinnon, Thornton Park Farm Cottages to Firm of MP Jamieson & Son, Whitesteens
600gns – Bridgehaugh from D Taylor, Bridgehaugh Mill to K & K Knowles, Roadinghead
Ram Lambs:
700gns – Graylen from G & J Galbraith, Endmoor Farm to T Marshall, Pitgair
500gns – Bridgehaugh from D Taylor, Bridgehaugh Mill to D J Scott, Burnside
Gimmers:
700gns – Maranatha from D & A Henderson, Maranatha to to M Weir, Monthaw
700gns – Lecropt from R & J MacFarlane and L Rennie to M Weir, Monthaw
700gns – Lecropt from R & J MacFarlane and L Rennie to F Crocker, Speediehill House
600gns – Bridgehaugh from D Taylor, Bridgehaugh Mill to C Warden, Peggyslea Farm
500gns – Powblack from Messrs Steel, Powblack to C Warden, Peggyslea Farm
400gns – Barnhill from Messrs Dalgleish, Barnhill Mews to S & L Brown, Caerlaverock
400gns – Whitesteens from Firm of MP Jamieson & Son to R & J Milroy, Cairn Whin Farm
Ewe Lambs:
500gns – Bridgehaugh from D Taylor, Bridgehaugh Mill to I &S Clough, Raindale Head Farm
450gns – Bridgehaugh from D Taylor, Bridgehaugh Mill to C Warden, Peggyslea Farm
400gns – Monthaw from M Weir, Springbank Farm to J Bruce, Balmacaan Road
400gns – Monthaw from M Weir, Springbank Farm to J Robinson, Vicaridge Close (twice)
400gns – Maranatha from D & A Henderson to J Bruce, Balmacaan Road
400gns – Powblack from Messrs Steel to W H Atkinson-Clark, Ashintully Castle
Averages:
32 Overall averaged £638.88 (50 forward)
2 Shearling Rams averaged £630.00 (3 forward)
5 Ram Lambs averaged £924.00 (11 forward)
14 Gimmers averaged £721.50 (21 forward)
11 Ewe Lambs averaged £402.82 (15 forward)
59% clearance rate
