Breed records were smashed at the Badger Face Texel Sheep Society show and sale at Carlisle, when a show gimmer from John Harding's Ingst flock sold for 6000gns.

Ingst Olympia, from Olverston, Bristol, was reserve female at the Royal Welsh, reserve champion of champions at Brecon and inter-breed sheep at Chepstow, and sold to Messrs Lockyer, Huntspill, Highbridge, Somerset. She is backed by imported genetics on both sides.

Stuart Wood's Woodies flock from Skene, Aberdeenshire, also came up with the goods with gimmers at 2800gns and 1000gns twice. Dearest was Woodies Zara, a daughter of a Hackney sire that goes back to Hackney X-Factor, out of an imported ewe from Holland. Buying back some of their own genetics, she sold to Paul and Christine Tippetts, Shifnal, Shropshire.

The two 1000gns gimmers are both by the imported Turbo Blues Breda, bred from Braam Raats females and sold to Messrs Davies, New Mills, Newtown, Powys, who also forked out another 1000gns bid for the first lot in the catalogue, a 2015-born imported ewe from Henry Jewitt, Romaldkirk, Barnard Castle.

Northern Ireland breeder, Clive Richardson, Hillview, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, sold the top two highest priced males at 800gns and 700gns to Messrs Smith, Batsford, Moreton in Marsh and Messrs Butterfield, Gawber, Barnsley, respectively. The former, Cleenagh Hugo Boss, a 2016-born ram, is by a Woodies imported ram, while the latter, Cleenagh Almighty a tup lamb, is by Cleenagh Coolio.

Averages: Three aged ewes, £857.50; four gimmers, £2835.00; six ewe lambs, £560.00; 11 ram lambs, £476.32