Hawes. - Wed & Thurs of last week. Annual two-day show & sale of registered Swaledale shlg rams for Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association (B district). Wed. - Fwd: 341 rams to £36,000 av £1,652.24 (down £143.17 on 2003). Thurs. - Fwd: 352 rams to £38,000 av £1,949.63 (down £229.31); overall av £1.806.42 (down £189.47) for 693 fwd.

Wed prizes. - Large breeders: 1 & champion & JW Porter Cup: AD&P Coates, Aygill, £30,000 to L Raine, Coach and Horses; 2 & res & White Hart Tankard: JR Rukin, Keld, £18,000 to JW Porter & Sons, Low Oxnop; 3 AD&P Coates, £8,000 to GK Hird & Sons, Low Row. Small breeders: 1 TA Blades, Hawes, £30,000 to CR Raine & Sons, Stanhope Gate; 2 JE Cowan, Halton Gill, £8,000 to R&PE Hargreaves, Barley; 3 I Wilson, Flasby, £2,200 to NW&RE Hunter, Crowtrees.

Prices. - AD&P Coates £36,000, £30,000, £8,000, £4,800, £4,000; TA Blades £30,000; JR Rukin £18,000, £2,600; JR&A Blades £12,000, £7,000, £4,000, £3,000, £2,100; Mrs G Taylor £11,000, £6,000; JW Dent & Sons £10,400; P Hallam £10,000, £5,000, £4,000(2); DA Robinson £10,000; CR Thornborrow (WS) £10,000, £5,000, £4,000, £2,200; JE Cowan £8,000; Brogden £7,000; RT Tennant £6,000; JC&E Pedley £5,100; T&RJ Tiplady £4,000, £3,200; AH Birbeck £3,600; A&M Brennand & Sons £3,600; CM Johnson £3,200; WM Hutchinson & Son £3,000; WA Dinsdale & Son £2,500; TW&K Hutchinson £2,500, £2,200; JC Wade & Son £2,400, £2,200; D&M Brown (Lummas House) £2,200; J&JE Bradley £2,200; CJ&AJ Owen £2,200; JM&S Tennant £2,200; I Wilson £2,200.

Thurs prizes. - Large breeders: 1 & res & JW Porter Cup & White Hart Trophy: K&G Whitehead, Muker, £13,000 to F&MP Allinson & Sons, W Briscoe; 2 W Richardson & Son, Dufton, £29,000 to Dalton & Graham, Bishop Auckland; 3 G Calvert & Sons, Hoggarths, £2,800 to R Raine & Thirwell, Renwick. Small breeders: 1 & champion: AP Sowerby, Thwaite Bridge £18,000 to AD&P Coates, Aygill; 2 S Hunter, Hardraw £7,000 to AS&CJL Hodgson, Glenridding; 3 MR Lawson, Buddle House £7,000 to J&JE Bradley, Pen y Ghent, & JC Wade & Son, Linton.

Prices. - Mossdale Farms £38,000, £30,000, £11,000; W Richardson & Son £29,000; B Thornborrow £22,000, £3,000; AP Sowerby £18,000; SW Porter £16,000; JW Porter & Sons £14,000, £11,500, £7,000, £4,400, £3,000; K&G Whitehead £13,000, £3,800; BR Lawson & Son £10,000; R Marwood £10,000, £7,500, £4,000(2), £2,800; TW Robinson £9,000; T Robinson & Sons £9,000; GJ&JM Scarr £9,000; PE&KA Sowerby £9,000; JH&J Bland £7,000; S Hunter £7,000; MR Lawson £7,000; S Reynoldson & Son £7,000; Ron Metcalfe £5,200; C&R Calvert £4,000; G Calvert & Sons £4,000, £2,800; RS&BA Harker £4,000; DA&RCS Harker £4,000; AP Moore £4,000, £3,000; T Metcalfe & Son (UG) £4,000; RM&WJ Porter £4,000; SA Raine £3,500; JS Cloughton (BO) £3,000; G Harker & Son £3,000, £2,800; GK Hird & Sons £2,800.