Ewe lambs top Beltex trade at Welshpool

A small but select offering of Beltex females were forward and it was D E Owen’s of the Smart Ass flock, Rowen, Conwy, that led the show and sale trade. 

Lisa Mills of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk paid 700gns a piece for two Smart Ass ewe lambs, firstly show champion, Smart Ass Kahula (ET) and a full sister Smart Ass Kit Kat (ET). 

Both lambs were the result of a flush from Smart Ass Dream Girl ET, and sired by Kingledores Drake ET, which is bred from the same ewe that produced Crusader, Kingledores Pearl ET, a Viagrow V/d Drie Musschen daughter and former Royal Highland Show champion. 

E Morgan, Hengoed, Caerphilly, matched the 700gns bid for the Wern Jocar sired Smart Ass Khloe, out of a homebred ewe, while W W Bowen, Brecon, Powys, secured the ewe lamb Smart Ass Kiara, bred from Smart Ass Evouge, sired by Wern Jarret, for 650gns. 

The shearling ewes came from a draft from D L Rowlands, Llanddesant, Anglesey, and peaked at 480gns for Deio’s Jigsaw, a Cothi Golden Boy ET daughter, from homebred Deio’s Darling, she had been served by the Al Pacino grandson, Crosswell Hurricane, who was second in the stock ram competition in 2023, and overall Beltex breed champion at Anglesey show 2024. 

J E Edwards, Lampeter, Ceredigion, purchased the homebred Deio’s Jewel for 300gns, a grandson of Frongoy Eye of the Tiger (ET) out of the Ardstewart Super Marios sired dam Deio’s Friday Feeling, she sold again in lamb to Croswell Hurricane.

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