CCM Skipton’s annual show and sale of gimmer shearlings, one of the largest fixtures of its kind in the North of England, saw a local victory in the Mule class with a ten-strong pen from the Hall farming family, of Darnbrook Farm, Darnbrook, in Littondale, on Tuesday.
Shown by brothers James and William Hall, the prize-winning pen received the Edgar Boothman Memorial Trophy, presented by his brother James Boothman, of Linton. The Halls also won the title in 2011.
First prizes in the Continental and Masham show classes both fell again to last year’s victors – a Texel pen from Norfolk breeders Henry Harvey & Son, of Waxham, and Margaret Watkinson, of Brimar Sessay, Thirsk, with her Mashams.
A more detailed report, include selling prices and averages, will appear next week.
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