Overall cattle champion from Wilson Peters
This year's champion was a September 2022-born 792kg Limousin cross heifer by Carmon Lionbar which went on to sell for the top price of £4,300 to Telinco Farms, Lockerbie.
The second top price of the day was £4,000 for the Young Farmers' overall champion Espresso, a March 2023-born 64kg Limousin cross heifer, from Anna Fettes, Braesof Enzie, which sold to Forbes RaeburnButcher, Huntly.
The overall butchers' championship went to Harry Brown, Maud, with a December 2022-born 620kg home-bred Limousin cross heifer. It sold to B.T. Kitson Butchers, Hutton Rudby, North Yorkshire, for £3,800.
The overall reserve championship also went to the Brown family, with a home-bred 664kg Aberdeen-Angus cross heifer, which also took home the native heifer award. It went onto sell for £3,400 to the judge Hugh Black, Lanark.
Taking the reserve champion in the Young Farmers' section was Cally Harper, Turriff, with a July 2021-born 696kg Limousin cross heifer which made £3,000 to W.T.S. Forsyth, Peebles, Tweddale.
The next top price of £2,900 (500p/kg) was paid for the Young Farmers' un-haltered champion, also from Cally Harper. This was a 584kg British Blue cross heifer which went to Bruce of the Broch, Fraserburgh.
Top gross for bullocks was £2,793 (380p/kg) for the first prize738kg Limousin steer in the Young Farmers section from Rachael Davidson, Keith, which sold to Chapman Butchers, Wishaw.
The 41 heifers averaged 405.1p/kg and the 23 bullocks, 357.6p/kg.
Sheep
William and David Moir, Cairness, topped the sale of prime lambs for the second consecutive year with their open champion pair, 49.5kg Beltex which went on to sell for £320/head to J. B. Penman Butcher, Crail.
The reserve open champions from R. Wilkie, Echt, were 48kg home-bred Beltex crosses which made £200/head to John Scott Meats, Paisley.
The butchers' champions were also from the Moir brothers, with a pair of 43.5kg Beltex cross lambs which made £300/head to the judge, Stuart Stark, Milton of Campsie, who also paid £220/head for the Young Farmers' champions, 48kg Beltex crosses also from the Muirs.
Birness flock take top accolades in pedigree sheep section
The pedigree sheep section at Thainstone's Christmas Classic was dominated by Suffolks from the Stuart family, Milltown of Birness where 192 sheep sold to average £807.37.
The top price of 5,200gns was for their second prize winning ewe lamb by Dunfell Dynamite which sold to Stephen Cobbald, Sudbury. They also took the championship with the winning shearling gimmer by Sportsmans 5 Star which sold for 4,500gns to the judge, Angus Brims, Bilbster.
A Suffolk gimmer by Bridgeview Belvenie, from Jimmy Douglas, Cairness, achieved the second top price of 5,000gns when selling to David Moir, Cairness.
Texels sold to 3,000gns for the champion, a ewe by Auldhouseburn Fancy Pants from Kenny Pratt, Peterculter, which sold to J. Green, Keith.
Beltex topped at 750gns for the champion, a gimmer from Grant Dinnie, Bridgeton, which went to Gary Morrison, Keith.
In the Blue Texel section, the championship was awarded to an ewe lamb from J.B. Wilkie and Sons, Westhill which sold for the top price of 650gns to J. Swanson, Thurso.
The Dutch Spotted top price was 1,400gns for A. Beatie, Carlaustan, Stirling with a gimmer which sold to E Patterson, Turriff.
The Blue Faced Leicesters reached 1,050gns for a gimmer from Matthew Seed, Turriff which was bought by J. Moir, Inverurie.
Auctioneers: Aberdeen and Northern Marts.
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