Drinkstone flock sale tops at 6,000gns

Bidding peaked at 6,000gns when JA Park offered the entire portion of ewes and gimmers from his Drinkstone flock for sale at Carlisle this week.

Demand for high-performance genetics was order of the day and sale leader was a 2010-born, in-lamb ewe (PJP1000083) sired by Drinkstone Punt Gun and out of a Lumbylaw Kenya daughter. She sold in-lamb to Boghouse Untouchable and with an index of 444 to the McCosh Bros, Biggar, Lanarkshire, for their Culter Allas flock.

Lot 37 6000g

Next best at 3,500gns was a shearling gimmer sired by the same ram as the previous lot and out of another Lumbylaw Kenya daughter, with an index of 469. PJP1202907 sold in-lamb having been AI’d to Boghouse Untouchable. Purchaser was Duncan Macniven, Glenfarg, Perth.

Lot 137 3500g

Charles Scott, East Middle, Hawick, secured a gimmer by Goldies Supreme for 2,600gns.
This one is out of Drinkstone Punt Gun sired dam and has an index of 394. She sold in-lamb to Vorn Upper Castle.

Securing a bid of 1,700gns and sharing a trailer home to Perthshire with the second best-priced lot was the Drinkstone Punt Gun daughter PJP1100005 out of a Kenya dam. She sold with an index of 442 and in-lamb having run with Cambwell Taurus.

At the same money was the Gaynes Rolls Royce daughter PJP1100047 out of another Kenya dam. She sold in-lamb to Cambwell Taurus and with an index of 402 and joins J Scott and Partners’ Fearne flock, Tain, Ross-Shire.

Just shy of this at 1,500gns was the Drinkstone Punt Gun sired ewe PJP1100108 out of Drinkstone Oates. She sold with an index of 421 and in-lamb to Cambwell Taurus. Buyer was A and C Watson, Cockermouth, Cumbria.

Punt Gun breeding was pick of the day and next at 1,300gns was another of his daughter, this time out of Drinkstone Night Secret. The 2011-born ewe PJP1100034 sold in-lamb to Goldies Supreme and with an index of 411. She also heads home to Ross-Shire with the Scott family.

Selling for the same money was the shearling gimmer PJP1202941. Sired by Drinkstone Punt Gun and out of Lumbylaw Kenya she has an index of 435. She sold in lamb to Paul Phillips, Kimbolton, Herefordshire, having been AI’d to Vorn Three Oh Oh.

Averages: 84 ewes, £519.38; 88 shearling gimmers, £446.85; 172 overall; £482.77.
(Harrison and Hetherington).