The reason for going was to attend the Belted Galloway Annual Society sale at Castle Douglas mart.
We went up on thursday with a couple of friends and in the evening we attended the Annual AGM which was followed by dinner. There were about 140 members there, their highest attendance to date. The dinner was held at Threave Gardens, a National Trust garden just outside the town, a beautiful place to visit if you ever find yourself in the area.
The sale was yesterday and kicked off at 9am with the judging. The top picture here shows one of the Bull classes being judged.
The picture below shows the overall Champion of the day, Mosston Muir Irish Primrose, who was being sold as part of a dispersal sale from Mr & Mrs Rennie from Mosston Muir, Forfar and realised a price of 5200 guineas. We didnt buy it!!
The top price of the day was a bull, Lullenden Hector, from Miss Hamilton, Innerleithen, Peebleshire, which made 9000 guineas, we didnt buy that either!!!
We did however buy a couple of heifers, one in calf for the spring and another which will go to the bull next summer to calve spring 2014.
All in all a great couple of days, I think we will definately be going again next year!
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