Texel sheep sells for new record at Scottish National Texel Sale
A Texel lamb has sold for an eye-watering sum at auction in Scotland to set a new world record price. Find out what it sold for and see it in action here.
A NEW world record price has been paid for a sheep, which has sold for more than $660,000 in Scotland.
The Scottish National Texel Sale at Lanark, near Glasgow, last week saw a Texel lamb go under the hammer for 350,000 guineas, or $665,175.
The ram, appropriately named Double Diamond, was reportedly purchased by three-way partnership of Hugh and Alan Blackwood’s Auldhouseburn in Muirkirk, Scotland; the Procters in Lancashire, England, and Messrs Teward’s New View, in Darlington, England.
According to The Guardian, Procters stock manager Jeff Aiken said: “Every once in a while something special comes along and yesterday an extra special Texel turned up. Everyone wanted a piece of it.”
Double Diamond was “a crowd puller from the moment he set foot in the market” carrying an index in the top 1 per cent of the breed, according to the Texel Sheep Society website.
The opening bid was 10,000 guineas, and quickly escalated, according to the website, with what it said was a “with a rarely seen bidding war between a brace of consortiums”.
The ram was sold by Charlie Boden and family from their Sportsmans flock, Stockport, Cheshire.
According to The Guardian the previous record for a sheep sold at auction was just over £230,000, or $417,023, in 2009.
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