MIDDLETON in TEESDALE. - Tues. Fwd: 131 store cattle for show & sale. Bullocks av £459.47 (up £18.75); hfrs av £382.71 (up £46.79).
Prices, bullocks. - Lim X: £548, £535 Toft House; £530 Friar House Farm; £528, £500 Earnwell; £515, £472(2), £455(3) Forcegarth; £505 Seldom Seen; £500(3) Cragg Top; £480, £472, £460 Summery Hill; £465 High Cross; £450(2) Parrick House; av £461.31. BBX: £460 Earnwell; av £442.50. BAX: £500 Cornfield House; £490 Cragg Top; av £450. Hfrs. - AAX: £415 Earnwell. Lim X: £468, £440, £422, £402(5) Summery Hill; £425(2), £410 High Cross; £425 East Park Farms; £415(3) Cragg Top; av £373.33. BB: £395 Earnwell. BAX: £508(4), £422 Cragg Top; £442, £400(3) Summery Hill; av £433.27.
PATELEY BRIDGE. - Sat, March 26. Fwd: 84 store cattle for Easter show & sale. Judge: D Hills, East Rigton.
Prizes. - Steers: 1 S Church, Lofthouse, £530 to S Priestley, Denholme; 2 T Martin, Heathfield, £490 to G Thornton, Plumpton, £480 to J Barker, Scotton. Hfrs: 1 W&R Verity, Stean, £565 to P Newcombe, Carthorpe.
Prices, hfrs. - Lim: J Graham, Middlesmoor, £685, £605 to J Burrows, Malham; J Clay, Skipton, £618; E Simpson & Son, Heathfield, £480, £475, £455; RJ Challis £485, £480, £472; P Smith, Lofthouse, £492, £485. Char: A Firth, Middlesmoor, £508, £505. BB: J Clay £580; J Graham £525, £450; D Middlemiss, Ramsgill, £470. Lim steers: C Dent, Sawley, £495; J Raynoer, Gouthwaite, £498, £475.
Thirsk. - Tues. Fwd: 125 cattle (inc special sale), 31 ewes with 49 lambs. Spring show & sale. Judge: C Ives, Birkenshaw. Champion: D Stockdale, Osmotherley, young bull, not sold; res: Andrew Phillips, Copgrove, £575 to P Newcombe, Carthorpe.
Prizes. - Young bull: 1 champion; 2 M Rodney, Masham, £460 to D Wilson, Harome; 3 F Jackson, Rainton, £448 to D Mills, North Rigton. Steer: 1 AD Guthe, Kepwick £570 to I Armitage, York; 2 GC Brown, Upsall, £542 to I Armitage; 3 C Hunton, Thirsk, £450 to R Donaldson, Huby. Hfr: 1 res champion; 2 A Phillips £505 to I Armitage; 3 J&A Pattinson, East Harsley £435 to I Armitage.
Other prices. - Young bulls 8-12 m-o: Lim to £470; AA to £435; Holstein Fries £202; Brit Fries £248. Steers 8-12-m-o: Simm £570; Lim £518. BB £535; BA £492; Fries £352. 13-26 m-o: Simm £598; Lim £586; BB £580; BAX £495; Char £538. Hfrs 8-12 m-o: Lim X £470; BBX £225. 13-23-m-o: Lim £572. Ewes & lambs: Suff X BM & twins to £90; Mule BM & twins to £81; Suff corr & twins £90; Mule corr & twins £83.
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