Special sales

Prize. - Lim X steer: 1 champion; 2 CG Simpson & Son, Square House, £830. Lim X hfr: 1 res champion; 2 A Watson, Dyke Head £545. BA hfr: 1 A Watson £585. BBX hfr: 1&2 CG Simpson & Son £685, £610.

Non-winners' prices. Steers, red CID: Lim X to £745 Highwood; Simm X to £662 Claywalls; BAX to £690 Shield Farm; BBX to £690 Claywalls; AAX to £658 Bunker Hill. Blue CID: Lim X to £800 Nettlesworth West House; Simm X to £705 Low Farnham; Char X to £742 East Shaftoe; BAX to £655 Dykehead; BBX to £710 East Shaftoe; AAX to £560 Byreside; Mont X to £558 Warksfield Head; Herefd X to £625 Redwell Hills. Green CID: Lim X to £725 Square House; Char X to £652 Bishopton; BBX to £740 Square House. Hfrs: Lim Xto £720 Great Chesters; Simm X to £570 Stoop Rigg; pure Char to £790 Baldersbury Hill; Char X to £718 Great Chesters; BAX to £608 The Heigh; BBX to £538 Warksfield Head; AAX to £575 Currock Hill.

Store hoggs: Texel X to £40.50; Suff X to £40; Mule to £25.50,. Ewes: Mule to £31; Suff X to £49. Mule YS to £36. All sheep Middle Newbiggin.

Wed of last week. - Fwd: 120 beef breeding cattle for special May term sale. Top price £1,520, Sleights House, Lim x Fries hfr with Lim hfr calf at foot (30 hfrs & calves from Sleights House av £1134.67).

Prices: Lim X hfrs & bull calves to £1,500 Sleights House; with hfr calves to £1,520 Sleights House; BBX hfrs & bull calves to £1,500 Sleights House; with hfr calves to £1,180; Simm X hfrs & bull calves to £1,050 Bishopton. Incalf hfrs: Lim X to £1,130 Bishopton; BBX to £610 Thrunton Lowfield, Bulling hfrs: Lim X to £700 Mirlaw House; BBX to £630 Thrunton Lowfield; AAX to £485 Byreside.

KIRKBY STEPHEN. - Mon. Show & sale of 448 breeding & store cattle for New Fair sale. Judge: John White, Rigg Farm.

Prizes. - Hfrs & calves: 1 JS&JO Dodd, West View, Lim X hfr & Lim X bull calf £1,750 to CR Raine & Sons; 2 G&HR Shields, Tarn House, BBX hfr & Lim X hfr calf £1,700 to CRRaine & Sons; 3 W&J Ousby, Bents, BBX hfr & BAX hfr calf £1,120 to JE Hutchinson. Cow in calf: 1 D&RM Wharton, Third Sunbiggin Farm, Lim X in calf to BA £520 to N Jewitt.

Prices, breeding cattle. - Lim X hfrs & bull calf: £1,750 West View; £1,220, £1,080, £1,070 Bents; £1,150 Green Farm; £1,120, £1,080 Prospect Farm £1,050(2), £1,020 Mireside; £1,050 Coupland Beck; £1,040, £1,020 High Laining. BBX hfrs & bull alf: £1,350, £1,080(2) Town Foot Farm; £1,080 Bents. Lim X hfr & hfr calf: £1,200 West View; £1,050, £1,020 Bents. Lim X cow & bull calf: £1,000 Thwaite Farm. BBX hfr & hfr calf: £1,700 Tarn House; £1,120, £1,000 Bents. Store bullocks: Saler X: £595 Gaisgill Row. AAX: £455 Helbeck. Lim X: £670 Hawkrigg; £645 Bloan Farm; £620 Villa Farm; £618 Eden Flatt; £598 Stripes; £595 Rudd Hills; £580 Enterber; £575 Sawbridge Hall; £570 New Hall; £565 Easegill Head. Fries: £488 Eden Flatt. Simm X: £565 Bloan Farm. Shorthorn: £500 Tullich Farm; £448 Park House. BBX: £565 Villa Farm; £560 Bloan Farm. Hfrs. - BBX: £850 New Hall; £618 Bloan Farm; £605 Hall Garth: £545 Hawkrigg; £510 Gilts, Gillses. Simm X: £478 Helbeck Grange; £455 Villa Farm. Lim X: £700 Bridge End (Kipling); £615 Park House; £590 Stripes; £545 Crooksbeck, Clockeld; £530 Gillses; £525 Bloan Farm; £520 Villa Farm; £500 New Hall. BAX: £680 Keld Farm; £575 Clockeld; £570 High Stennerskeugh. Shorthorn: £360 Park House. Sussex: £452 Helbeck Grange

LEYBURN. - Last Fri. Fwd: 2 dairy cattle, 106 calves & stirks, 311 store cattle & feeding bulls. May Fair show & sale of store cattle. the Judge: John Little, Penrith. Champion: 9-m-o BBX hfr, Ken Whitehead, Muker, £1,720 (centre record) to Keith Metcalf, Piercebridge, on behalf of his grandson, Owen Wallbanks; res: BBX steer, Ken Hird & Sons, Swaledale, £1,050 to the judge.

Spring show for rearing calves. Judge: Richard Turnbull. Champion & Craglea Trophy: D&S Spence, Aysgarth, BBX bull, £305 to the judge; res: D&S Spence, BBX bull £305.

Prizes - BB hfr: 1 champion; 2 A&CA Stelling £800; 3 GK Hird & Sons £630. AO Cont steer: 1 RW Clarkson & Son, BA £660; 2&3 JR&A Blades, BA £615, £635. AO Cont hfr: 1 RMS Livestock, BA £560; 2 Walburn Hall Farms, Lim £570; 3 G Lambert & Sons, Lim £525. Feeding bulls: 1 A&CA Stelling BB £600.

Calf show. - BB bull: 1&2 D&S Spence £295; 3 SH&N Whittaker £295. BB hfrs: 1,2&3 SH&N Whitaker £150, £170, £150. AO Cont bull: 1 JB Harker & Sons £260; 2 D Brown £280; 3 B&JA Muir £275; all Lim. AO Cont hfr: 1 A Spence £170; 2 WD&M Moor £120; 2 J Dinsdale £150, all Lim. Fries: 1 B&A Myers & B daughters £105. Calved hfrs: PF Donaldson £920.

PENRITH. - Mon. Annual New Fair show & sale of 5,082 breeding & store sheep. Judge: John Blaylock, Hallburn.

Prizes. - Hoggs with Suff-sired lambs at foot: Champion & M&JM Kennedy "Wayside" Challenge Trophy CG Atkinson, Birks; 2 Little, Cannerheugh. Mule hoggs with Cont-sired lambs at foot: 1 M Kidd, Briggle; 2 Watson, Blandswath.

Prices . - Mule hoggs & singles: £75, £70(2) Clickham; £72 Cannerheugh; £70 Birks (Atkinson), Terrys Farm; £68 Rimmington Way, Blandswath; £65 The Green, Briggle, Moss Dyke; £64 Seymour Farms; £63 Town Head (Holliday). With doubles: £51, £50(2) Clickham; £50 Terrys Farm; £49 Birks (Atkinson); £47 Seymour Farms; £46 Rimmington Way, Moss Dyke; £45 Briggle, Town Head (Holliday). Texel hoggs & singles: £63 The Green; £60 Moss Dyke. Suff hoggs & singles: £59 Terrys Farm; £54 Roman Vale. Mule Shlgs & doubles: £48 Blandswath. Mule ewes & doubles: £45 The Green. Cont ewes & singles: £52 Cannerheugh. Cheviot ewes & doubles: £44 Sunnyslack. Lleyn hoggs & singles: £51 Norman Farm. Mule geld gimmer hoggs: £95 Clickham; £91 Spedding (Rylands); £89 Town Head (Barker), Town Head (Holliday); £86 Briggle, Cannerheugh; £85 West View, Spedding Farm; £81 Little Blencowe; £78 Town End (Crocker), Dillicar Farm; £77 Milburn Grange