BROUGHTON(Cumbria). - Tues of last week. Fwd: 620 store cattle for April Fair show & sale. Judge: F Tower, Bentham. Champion: L Farish, Leslands, Barrow, Lim X bullock, £670 to JS&JO Dodd, West View; res: S Bower, Burney End, a Lim X hfr, £600 to JS&JO Dodd.

Prizes: Bullocks: 1 champion; 2 GG&FM Holmes & Son, Hollowmire, £560; 3 D Nicholson, Birch Bank, £700. Hfrs: 1 S Bower £600; 2 D Nicholson £510; 3 NA&J Temple, Blackhall Farm, £565.

Prices, bullocks. - Lim: £760 Chapples; £758 Dunningwell Farm; £710(2), £685(2) Far Kiln Bank; £700 Birch Bank; £690 Scale Hook Farm; £670 Leslands; £668(2), £665(2) Far Old Park; £665 Greenbank Farm; £650 Gamswell Farm; £648 Dunningwell; £640 Moss View. BA: £740 Maidenlands; £595, £575, £520 Oxenbows Farm; £515(2) Hyton Farm; Char £735, £655(2), £625, £620, £585(2), £545(3) Buckman Hall; £545(2) Hollin Bank Farm. BB: £652 Oxenbows; £625 Far Old Park; £570 Moss Foss Farm; £565 Beck Farm. Simm: £585, £570 Thwaite Yeat. Holstein: £470 Monk Foss Farm. Hfrs. - Lim: £630, £598 Chapples; £600 Burney End Farm; £595(2) Buckman Hall; £575 2 Angerton Cottage; £565 Blackhall Farm; £562 Scale Hook Farm; £555 Dunningwell Farm. Char: £690(2) Baskell Farm; £590 Buckman Hall. BB: £492(2) Oxenbows. BA: £465, £432 Oxenbows. AA: £400 Greenbank.

KIRKBY STEPHEN. - Sat. Fwd: 55 horses and ponies for spring sale. Av £588.55 (up £211.79 on 2004).

Prices: black & white gelding 5-y-o 1,000gns (top price of day); black & white filly 2-y-o (halter broken) 920gns; dark brown gelding (cross) 3-y-o (halter broken) 860gns; registered Fell gelding 3-y-o (halter broken) 800gns; Welsh cob 3-y-o (unbroken) 730gns; bay mare 10-y-o 710gns; brown gelding 4-y-o 680gns; brown mare 10-y-o 630gns; bay filly 2-y-o (halter broken) 600gns.

MALTAS FARMS. - Tues of last week. Fwd: 504 for 25th annual on-farm sale of Cont store cattle for Maltas Farms (auctioneers Harrison & Hetherington).

Prices. - Bullocks: Char £685, £660(2), £610(4), £600, £570(3); BB £570, £475; Lim £560(6), £525(5); Simm £475; Fries £440. Hfrs: Char £672(2), £600(2), £575(6), £552; BB £548(2), £492(2), £370; Simm £525(8), £515(3); Lim £505(3), £500, £495, £492, £468, £440(2), £428(2); Herefd £352(3). Bulls: Lim £440(5), £435(4), £388, £370; Herefd £438, £435, £375; BB £438(2); Simm £400(3), £375(2), £350; Char £400, £368(3), £300(4); Highland £388; AA £370, £330, £300.