Beltex lambs scoops YFC champ at Skipton

Taking championship honours and the top price at the annual Young farmers show and sale of prime lambs at Skipton Auction Mart on Monday was 11 year-old Tom Garnett, Draughton.

His prize winning Beltex lamb sold for £100 to Stuart Price Butchers, of Crossflatts, Bingley.

One of the youngest competitors, six year-old Freddie Shorrock, Burnley, exhibited another Beltex, which went on to become reserve champion and sold for £89 to Ilkley-based Rowland Agar wholesale butchers. 

Winner of the 17-26 year old category was North Craven-based Kelly Armitage, Keasden, who sold a Beltex-cross lamb at the same money to long established Thirsk butcher Harry Lee, of H Lee and Sons Butchers.

The same buyers also paid £95 for a Beltex-cross-Texel lamb from six year-old Matthew Garth, Clapham, and £94 for a Texel-cross lamb from Robert Ellis, 16, Moorside.