Lairg Sale 2026

A bright, crisp morning at Lairg welcomed the crowds for the annual United Auctions sale of both Females and Rams, with strong demand and some outstanding prices across the two rings.

Females

The Females met a blistering trade, with a new centre record set by a trio of gimmers from Hugh and Jan Mackenzie’s Langdale flock. Selling for £800 each, they were purchased by Finlay Clark for his Cour flock, based at Crieff.
Topping the ewe section was a pen of 46 from Gavin Ross, Migdale, which were snapped up by Messrs Barnetson, Caithness for £305.

Rams

The rams, selling in the second ring, also enjoyed a consistently strong trade, reaching a top price of £20,000 for Borgie F 00308, a son of Mowhaugh Constrictor. The sire himself had been purchased at Lairg in 2023 for £5,500, and this outstanding son now joins Ted Fox’s St Johns Kirk flock in Lanarkshire.
The Borgie flock secured two further impressive prices of £8,000 and £6,000, both also sons of Mowhaugh Constrictor. Borgie F 00307 heads to Sorbietrees at Newcastleton, while Borgie F 00603 was knocked down to Graham Cakebread for the Commonside flock at Hawick.

The Dorrery flock was next in the money, with two tups reaching £18,000 and another making £14,000. Dorrery Finnesse, sired by Dorrery Dazzler, joins George Irving’s Benger flock, while Dorrery FixUpLookSharp, by the £22,000 Dorrery Dizzee Rascal, heads to the Borders with Bob and Becca Rennie for their Attonburn flock at Kelso. Dorrery F 08353, a son of the £20,000 Dorrery Dynamite, also travelled south, joining Norman and David Douglas’s Whitehope flock at Selkirk.
Another Dizzee Rascal son, Dorrery F 08362, realised £9,000 when purchased by Michael Kirk for his Hollandmake flock at Thurso. Martyn and Jade Cook rounded off an exceptional day with the sale's top average of £8,355 for nine sold.

Another to reach £14,000 was Heilan F 08527, consigned by first-time Lairg vendors Alastair Sutherland and Tina Robertson. Sired by an Inkstack tup, he joins the Auldallan flock of Bob, Kay and Andrew Adams at Newhouse of Glamis. A second tup Heilan F 04597 bred the same way sold for £9,000 to Bennett Partners, Powys, Wales.

The Rock family secured £12,000 for their leading entry, Hethpool Foghorn, a son of Benger Destiny, who was knocked down to Martyn Cook of the Dorrery flock.

A further three tups realised £9,000 apiece. Early in the sale, Andrew Elliot’s Bedshiel flock sold Bedshiel F 17428, a son of the £12,000 Whitehope Assassin, to John Blackhall, Brachmont.
Benger Frisky Galore, sired by Benger Everest and consigned by George Irving, stays in the North to join the Badanloch flock at Kinbrace.
Completing the trio was Whitehope Front Runner, a son of the record-priced Whitehope Dark Knight, sold by Norman and David Douglas to Graeme MacRae, Kintail. The same home had further success, selling Whitehope F 37606, bred the same way, for £7,500 to join the Dorrery flock. Two further tups made £6,500 apiece: Whitehope F 37655 and Whitehope F 37961, both sons of Attonburn Bonnie Lad. The first travelled back to the Borders for Upper Chatto, Kelso, while the second heads home with Liam Matheson for his Rhinamain flock at Bonar Bridge.

Late in the sale two tups received £8000, first for John Blackhall's Brachmont Finesse, a son of the Stouphill Admiral, himself purchased at Lairg for £14000, to Bennett Partners, Powys, Wales and next for Mhor Bheinn F 08464, sired by Inkstack Dynamite from Morven Coghill - he stays in the Highlands with the Coul Estate flock.