Longtown Beef Shorthorns

At Longtown on Monday 26th August, C & D Auction Marts Ltd held their eighth annual summer sale of Beef Shorthorn females for the Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society.  There was a strong trade throughout with a significant number of new breeders in attendance. Many more could have been well sold.

4 Lot 2 First Prize Cow and Calf sold for 2,500gns Sandwick Blythsome Klassylass from A and C Ivinson

The judge, Cameron Jackson awarded 1st prize in the cow and calf section to Messrs A. & C. Ivinson, Sandwick, Ousby Penrith for Sandwick Blythesome Klassylass, a 2016 born EX90 dark roan by Engineer of Upsall from a Podehole Atlas dam with a registered heifer calf at foot.  She sold for 2,500gns to R.A. Nelson, Millstone Moor, Cockermouth.  The same purchaser took another Ivinson family cow, Sandwick Kinda Marita by Podehole Gatsby, again with a heifer calf, at 2,400gns. Steve Swales Dairy, Cliviger, took 2,300gns for Bradhill August Celeste with her bull calf.

3 Lot 24 Featherstone Skylark Heather sold for 2,600gns from A and D Whithead

From the dispersal of the Featherstone herd for Alan & Dorothy Whitehead, Coanwood, Haltwhistle, cows with calves at foot sold to 2,300gns for Featherston Pesky Ysabel with her heifer calf which went to Middlemoor Farm, Hudswell, North Yorkshire. This dispersal featured a grand run of in-calf heifers which sold to 2,600gns again to Middlemoor Farm, Hudswell, North Yorkshire for Featherstone Skylark Heather, a roan Newton of Skaillhouse daughter.  Middlemoor Farm took two more Featherston in-calf heifers at 2,400gns & 2,200gns with another from this herd at 2,000gns.

1 Lot 11 First Prize Heifer Shawhill Florence Tabitha sold for 3,300gns from Thomson Roddick and Laurie

1st prize heifer was an unserved roan poll from Thomson, Roddick & Laurie's Shawhill Shorthorns, Annan, she is by Glenisla Keystone out of a Burnside Elite - Fieldhouse Florence Anita dam and sold for 3,300gns to T. & R. Harper, South Mains, Biggar. The 2nd prize unserved heifer was Galla Tawny Buttercup, by Lowther Popeye, from Jim Frame, Little Galla, Wiston, Biggar which sold for 2,000gns to Messrs Armour, Burneside. The same buyer took another Little Galla Hiefer also at 2,000gns.  Other maiden heifers sold to 1,800gns, Burnfoot and 1,750gns, Featherstone.

Averages:  Cows with calves at foot £2,258; In-calf heifers £2,415 & Unserved heifers £1,773.

2 Lot 11 First Prize Heifer Shawhill Florence Tabitha sold for 3,300gns from Thomson Roddick and Laurie with judge Cameron Jackson

5 Lot 2 First Prize Cow and Calf sold for 2,500gns Sandwick Blythsome Klassylass from A and C Ivinson-2

Auctioneer John Thomson