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Records smashed at Chaileybrook Platinum Celebration sale

The Southdown breed record beaten twice and the previous breed female record topped three times at the Platinum Celebration sale from Jonathan Long and family’s Chaileybrook flock, Bishops Frome, at Worcester

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Three-crop ewe which sold for 6,500gns
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Three-crop ewe which sold for 6,500gns

Taking the top call of 6,500gns and setting a new female and breed record at the sale, which was staged to celebrate the family's70 years of breeding Southdowns, was a three-crop ewe which was the dam of a ewe lamb which was breed champion at this year's Royal Three Counties Show. By Chaileybrook 19/00560 out of a home-bred dam by Chaileybrook Tadpole, it sold carrying twins to Calley Castle Firestarter to Amy Page, buying on behalf of James Langmead's Basing flock, Alton.

Gimmer which sold for 6,000gns

Next at 6,000gns was a gimmer by Chaileybrook The Stag out of dam by the French sire, Dartagnan which had been champion at the national show at Bath and West. It sold, again carrying twins to Calley Castle Firestarter, to Stephen Colbald, Suffolk.
Making 2,700gns and also breaking the previous female record was another by The Stag and in-lamb with single to Dartagnan, which went to Maria Cork, Ashbourne.

A three-crop ewe by the imported sire, Percheron out of a Sarkozy sired dam made 1,200gns to Tom Chester, Staffordshire.

 Averages: 14 Chaileybrook in-lamb ewes, £1,241.25, 1 Littlebrook in-lamb ewe, £525; 5 Chaileybrook in-lamb gimmers, £1,785; 2 Littlebrook in-lamb gimmers, £735; 3 Chaileybrook ewe lambs, £595; 1 Littlebrook ewe lamb £525; 27 head overall, £1,164.

 Auctioneers: McCartneys.

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