Prices at the Special Livestock Sales at Hawes and Leyburn

HAWES

Tues. Fwd: 9 calves, 455 sheep at Spring Show of Rearing Calves. For the Bill Thompson Trophy Judge: Peter Lambert, of Bedale. Champion calf & Bill Thompson Trophy: First-prize Cont bull (Brit Blue) D Middleton & Son, Askrigg, £400. Reserve champion: first-prize Cont hfr (Brit Blue) M/S Dent, Kirkby Stephen, £315.

Prizes. – Cont bulls: 1 D Middleton & Son £400; 2 K Nicholson, Ravenstonedale, £410; 3 M/S Dent £385. Cont hfrs: 1 M/S Dent £315. Fries/Holst bulls: 1&2 M/S Dent £175, £135.

Prices. – Brit Blue X bulls to £410 K Nicholson av £387; Brit Blue X hfrs to £315 M/S Dent; Fries bulls to £175 M/S Dent av £155. Prime hoggs: Cont to 213p av 187.7p; Mules to 199p av 171.6p; horned to 202p av 164.2p. Ewes with lambs at foot: Mule ewes with twin lambs at foot to £200 WC Porter & Son, Reeth, av £166; Mule ewes with single lambs at foot to £130 T Fox, Hawes, av £124.33; Cont ewes with twin lambs at foot to £168 T Fox. Cast ewes: Horned (DB) to £93 av £54.45; Polled to £140 av £94.68. Cast rams: Horned (RF) to £134 av £82.87; polled to £158 av £119.70.

LEYBURN

Wed. Spring show for new season lambs. Judge: Mick Etherington. Champion: pair of Charollais lambs, Stephen Hodgson, Patrick Brompton, 36.5kgs, £109 to Campbells Butchers, Leyburn. Suff: 1 Peter Dowson, Great Ayton, 38kg, £117; 2 Stephen & Geoffrey Greensit, West Tanfield, 40kg, £118; 3 Peter Dowson, 38kg, £100. John Bell, of Thornton Watless, sold a 50kg Texel X hogg for the Breast Cancer Unit, Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, to Andrew Atkinson for £120.