| Wednesday October 2 will see the breeding sheep, with some 3,00 ewes and gimmer shearlings, starting at 10 am, followed by 280 rams at noon. |
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| Another local farmer, Neil Heseltine, from Malham, was awarded a prize for his local pair of mule gimmer lambs. |
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| Over at the sheep pens, Whittington farmer James Airey celebrated as his two-year-old Suffolk gimmer shearling took the title of supreme sheep champion. |
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| The order of sale will be slightly different in that first will come the gimmer shearlings followed by breeding ewes then store lambs and, finally, tups. |
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| The second best price for a gimmer was pounds 483, paid by J Hall of Wellhouse, Rothbury. |
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| Their sale leader was a Strathbogie Untouchable gimmer that had stood second at the Highland and reserve champion at Turriff. |
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| The Champion of Champion title went to a Texel gimmer sheep shown by Gordon Gray from Selkirk. |
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| Mr Delves also paid 2,000gns for a Stonehills gimmer out of a dam by Procters Rooney, and bought half of the 2,600gns shearling ram Strathbogie Whopper from Jim Innes. |
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| Andrew and Sam Froggatt, Froggys Farm, Abbots Bromey, sold their Millend Whirlpool sired gimmer for 1000gns to MSH Benson, Horrace Farm, Pennington, Ulverston. |
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| Gimmer Roberts, Matt Flynn and Curtis Hudson all struck in the last quarter of an hour. |
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| Loft Crag and Gimmer Crag steal the attention in the foreground while Bowfell impresses across Langdale. |
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| The fell has a small sharp summit, below which rises Gimmer Crag, which is one of the top rock climbing venues in the Lake District. |
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