The day started with the show for classes of 10 Mule Lambs and 10 Rough Fell Mule Lambs, kindly judged by S Allen from Derbyshire, followed by classes for 10 Lleyn and 10 Continental gimmer lambs judged by Mr J Jacks of Milton Keynes. The results are as below:

CLASS 1 – 10 MULE GIMMER LAMBS
1st R Lawrence, Greaves Farm
2nd R Lawence, Graves Farm
3rd D McClure, Woodbroughton Farm

CLASS 2 – 10 ROUGH FELL MULE GIMMER LAMBS
1st BN & S Urwin, Lynnshield
2nd FB Dunning & Son, Raisgill Head
3rd FB Dunning & Son, Raisgill Head

CLASS 3 – 10 LLEYN MULE GIMMER LAMBS
1st P Knowles, Cragg Farm
2nd P Knowles, Cragg Farm

CLASS 4 – 10 CONTINENTAL GIMMER LAMBS
1st Messrs Ladds, Benson Hall
2nd Messrs Ladds, Benson Hall
3rd Messrs Ladds, Singleton Park

CHAMPION: R Lawrence, Greaves Farm

The sale kicked off with Continentals and an unbelievable trade was witnessed.
The consignment of Texels from R&E Ladds, Benson Hall stole the show selling pens to £365, £350, £335, £330 x 2 and £305 and averaging £329.78 for 67 sold. Other good quality pens of Texels sold to £250 from J Handley, Gunnerfleet with Texel x Cheviot Mules to £230 and £212 from CJ Metcalfe Ingleton or £210 from JH Atkinson & Partners. Texels today averaged £202.93.
Suffolks proved good to sell reaching £200 for TA & JA Dixon, Yoad Pot or £195 from JG & PH Thompson, Poppy Farm with all Suffolks levelling at £175.23.
North of England Mules made up the bulk of the sale, topping at £320 for the Champion pen from R Lawrence, Greaves Farm who sold others to £270. Other stronger end lambs sold to £180 from D McClure, Woodbroughton with pens at the same price from Fishwick Bros and Calderside Farm, £178 for Drinkall Bros and £175 for NA Allen and L Gleadow . North of England Mules averaged £149.93 for an entry of predominantly fell bred running lambs.
Rough Fell mules saw 8 top notch pens out for the show, selling to £180 for the prize winners from BN & S Urwin, Lynshield who sold others to £158 and £150. Messrs Handley, Archers Hill reached £175 with pens at the same price from FB Dunning & Son, Raisgill Hall. £162 was achieved by both M&G German and B&J Knowles. Rough Fell mules averaged £141.59.
Lleyn mules sold to £195 from both P Knowles Cragg Farm and SD Dent, Brooklyn with this section averaging £188.84.
Another cracking sale was witnessed today and we now look forward to tomorrow’s NEMSA sale of 6500 lambs.