IT was Good Evans at the western area branch show and sale of the Suffolk Society at Abergavenny.
Miss Sian Evans from Anglesey had the top price of 2,200 guineas on her first outing at a society sale for her reserve champion Stockton ram lamb while the overall champion came from Myfyr Evans of Denbigh and sold for 2,000 guineas.
And yet another Evans - A W Evans of Dollys - recorded one of the best averages at the sale, selling five to average £959.70, including a lamb at 1,250 guineas to E Morgan of Sennybridge, another at 1,200 guineas to J Leeke and Son, Bishops Castle, and at 920 guineas to Richard James of Pontrilas.
Viv Samuel of St Weonards, sold a Didcot Orkney lamb at 1,600 guineas to S Watson of Kingstone, Hereford, which with three others helped produce an average of £828.87.
The judge, Cheshire breeder and society president Geoff Biddulph, sold his Marwood Millenium Man-sired lamb at 1,050 guineas to Roger and Glenys Morgan of Usk. Eighty ram lambs averaged £586.29.
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