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THAME & WINSLOW AT FOSCOTE MARKETS
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
w/e MONDAY 3 rd DECEMBER 2011
WEEKLY SALES NEWS
STOCK SOLD DURING THE WEEK:
PRIME CATTLE - 256
STORE CATTLE - 140
PRIME SHEEP - 1694
FRIDAY 14 TH DECEMBER
CHRISTMAS SHOW & SALE OF
STORE CATTLE
Prizes for the Best Pens of
Steers & Heifers
ENTRIES INVITED

THAME PRIME MARKET
Auctioneer: SCOTT RUCK
Weekly Auction Commences with Prime Sheep @ 10.30am (Gates Open 6.30am)
THAME with the VALE OF AYLESBURY CHRISTMAS
PRIMESTOCK SHOW 2012
WEDNESDAY 28 TH NOVEMBER
What an honour it is to have the privilege to sell some of the best
livestock in the country and surrounding areas – particularly when it is
so well supported by producers and buyers from near and far – all
eager to put their name to one of the finest shows of prime stock
available on one day. This year’s show and sale yet again sxceeded
all expectations, aided by boosted confidence on both the lambs and
beef sector in the run up to the festive season and enforced by
having over 15 buyers in attendance producing one of the dearest
trades seen at any fatstock show across the country so far this year.
Thanks must be credited to all market staff, stewards, members of
the show committee who committed to make the show a success,
with special mention to show secretaries Mary Bonner and Jo
Bromwich for carrying out suck an efficient post, both prior to and
during the sale, to ensure things ran smoothly, and to all who kindly
sponsored prize money and classes for whom the show is most
grateful to.
PRIME SHOW CATTLE: 50
PRIME HEIFERS AVERAGE – 249.69p/kg
PRIME STEERS AVERAGE – 229p/kg
An electric buzz surrounded the Wednesday fat ring here at Thame
as one of the best shows of prime cattle seen at Thame for some
years were kindly judged by Mr Matthew Morris of Joseph Morris
Family Butchers, South Kilworth.
Stiff competition in all classes from exhibitors saw MJ Dickens &
Family take the title of Supreme Champion beast and taking home
the Vale of Aylesbury Cattle Challenge Cup – sponsored by Natwest
Bank, with their 19 month old Limousin heifer weighing 640kg and
purchased by the judge Morris Butchers, who backed their decision
by purchasing the heifer at 340p/kg to gross £2176.

This heifer also claimed 1 st prize in class 4 (Best Butchers Maiden
Heavyweight Heifer of a Continental Breed or Cross) sponsored by
Whaddon Farm Livestock Transport, and takes home the
‘Hughendon Motors Challenge Cup’.
The Dickens family also claimed the title of Reserve Champion with
their Limousin steer weighing 580kg being 1 st in class 1 (Best
Butchers Lightweight Steer) and realising 300p/kg selling to firm local
supporters PC Turner & Son, Farnborough, grossing £1740.
Class 7 (best beast of any breed shown by an exhibitor under 26
years of age) was won by Miss Gemma Richardson, Preston Bissett,
also winning the best bred & fed cup with her 490kg stylish British
Blue x heifer finding much attention selling at 295p/kg to Woolley
Bros, Sheffield.
The title of ‘best butchers maiden lightweight heifer’ claiming the
Norman Jerrams Challenge Cup was awarded to Richard & Judy
Fountaine’s 500kg British Blue heifer selling at 290p/kg to Lea
Coulton. 282p/kg was achieved for loyal show supporter Andre
Lake’s shapely 605kg unhaltered British Blue heifer winning the best
butchers pair of heifers, both selling to Woolley Bros.
David Plested’s 15 month old Limousin heifer to 281p/kg with AR &
SB Franklin’s pure Devon heifer – a credit to the breed and their
stockmanship, winning class 6 with the best native bred selling to
278p/kg grossing £1654.10 to Morris’ Butchers.
265p/kg was achieved for KW Slade’s Blonde x heifer at 540kg with
JA Drewe’s 695kg Blonde x to 266p/kg and £1848 from class 9 and
Miss Jane Britnell winning class 2 with her Limousin x 715kg steer
grossing £1658.80, having previously been purchased from Thame
Market last December winning her the ‘Special Challenge Cup’.
Lighter commercial heifers from K Walker & Son proved sought after
with 440kg Limousin x to 237p/kg at 13 months with MA & L
Richardson’s native sired South Devon steer to 242p/kg, having won
class 5 and taking home the regular consignor award.
The baby beef class was won by MJ Dickens & Family for their 9
month old British Blue steer with David Plested taking 2 nd place and
selling his 8 month Limousin steer at £1060.

The cow class was won by DW Gurney & Son with their Limousin x
cow to 155p/kg and RL & JM Priddle’s 2 nd prize winner realising
122p/kg and grossing £1122.
PRIME LAMBS: 517
SHOW LAMBS: 245
The quality of show stock continued into the lambs, this year judged
by the expert eye of Mr Bill Rawdings of Marsworth who awarded the
Champion Pen of lambs to Miss Holly Levinge for her 44kg Beltex
sired lambs, also winning the Young Farmers class, sponsored by
Major Farm Services and selling to Evans Butchers for 277p/kg and
£122/head. The Reserve Champion pen of lambs was awarded to AJ
& FJ Claridge’s Beltex x, also winning class 15 selling to the judge Bill
Rawdings for £106 and 226p/kg. 1 lamb from GR Fountaine found
special treatment being sold separately at £125 and 275p/kg to
Evans and TG Levinge’s 40½kg Beltex x to £86.50 and 214p/kg to C
Humphreys & Son.
Barton Abbey Farm’s Texel x took the 1 st prize in class 17, sponsored
by Block 9 Design, Thame, for 190p/kg and PB Brown’s 1 st prize
winners in class 17 to £79.50 for ‘any other Continental breed or
cross over 206kg’.
59kg from TR Reeve to £93.50 with Roy Richardson dominating class
17 yet again with his thick as brick Charollais lambs to £89 and
175p/kg for over weights bought by British Premium Meats. The
native class 1 st prize was awarded to RL & JM Priddle realising £81.
Commercial lambs strengthened and readily 160p/kg with all weights
in demand topping at 173p/kg for A Payne and J Tapping to 171p/kg
with Passmore Bros to 170p/kg and WE Smith’s to 171p/kg. Heavier
lambs 160p/kg+ for J Gibson, R Richardson, AE Mogford & Son with
DJ Parker & Bird’s marvellous show of Zwartble x to £91, with trade
of the day to their pen of 50kg at £90.
WEIGHT Nos Ave p (£) Top p (£)
STANDARD (32.1 to39kg) 25 187.17 (£70.00) 193.00 (£73.50)
MEDIUM (39.1 to 45.5kg) 225 176.14 (£76.38) 277.00 (£125.00)
HEAVY (45.6 to 52kg) 202 165.99 (£79.60) 226.00 (£106.00)
O/WEIGHTS (52kg+) 65 155.39 (£86.21) 158.00 (£93.50)
CULL EWES 19 £82.68 £110.00

CULL EWES
Fierce completion for all classes of ewes on offer with a new class at
the 2012 show for ‘Best Cull Ewe’ of Any Breed or Cross’ proving well
supported topping at £110 for a pure Charollais ewe from class
winner KW Slade. This ewe sold to the judge Mr Bill Rawdings on
behalf of Romford Meats.
Texel x commercial ewes topped at £87.50 for R & J Butler with WE
Smith’s heavy Suffolk x to £86 claiming 2 nd prize and J Tapping’s
Continental x to £80. Small but smart Beltex x from M Walker & S
Taylor realised £80.

THAME STORE MARKET
Auctioneers: SIMON DRAPER & SCOTT RUCK
Weekly Auction Commences 10.30am with Store Sheep followed by Calves, 11.00am Breeding &
Store Cattle (Gates Open 7.00am)
FRIDAY 30 TH NOVEMBER
STORE CATTLE
140 cattle forward for the final sale of November giving a throughput
of 1893 for the month.
There were either younger cattle or colder cattle on offer this week
with no forward sorts in the yard.
MA Hunt topped the sale at £1035 for their Simmental x heifer at 24
months.
Tom Dancer sold Blue x Friesian steers to £936 at 22 months while
Alan Saw sold his Parthenais steer (14 months) at £935. A run of
Aberdeen Angus x Friesian steers (20 months) from PC & RW White
sold at £892.
Suckled steers sold to a top of £830 for Blonde x from Roger Sabine
with Somborne Park Farms selling their Limousin x at the same
money. Chris Sabine sold his run of Blonde x calves at £725.
Tom Dancer sold his Aberdeen Angus x heifer at £902. Alan Saw
followed with a Blue x at £878 while Limousin x from J & P Hedges
sold at £860.
Suckled heifers topped at £630 for Charolais x from Roger Sabine.
Feeding cows sold to £885 for Simmental x from Eddie Smith with
Blue x selling to £830 from Alan Saw.
CALVES
A few calves forward found a slightly steadier trade to £220 for
Blonde x from CJ Sabine. Aberdeen Angus x heifer from RA & M
Giles-Austin sold to £140 which a pen of Black & White bulls sold at
£55.
STORE SHEEP
Feeding Texel x ewes sold to £60 and rams to £69.50. Texel x store
lambs sold to £57 from Frances Castle.

BREED
AVER £ MAX
£
AGE
(m)
VENDOR
A/ANGUS
STEER 757.61 898 20 PC & RW WHITE, Stone
STEER 870 15 MRS JM WALLINGTON, Kingston Stert
STEER 868 18 B & D HAYNES, Old Marston
STEER 848 18 J & P HEDGES, Milton Common
HEIFER 673.14 902 20 T DANCER, North Marston
HEIFER 802 18 T DANCER, North Marston
HEIFER 752 18 B & D HAYNES, Old Marston
BLONDE
STEER 725.70 892 18 J & P HEDGES, Milton Common
STEER 830 8 R SABINE, Lower Shuckborough
STEER 725 8 CJ SABINE, Lower Shuckborough
HEIFER 600 600 8 CJ SABINE, Lower Shuckborough
B/BLUE
STEER 733.43 936 22 T DANCER, North Marston
STEER 722 8 CJ SABINE, Lower Shuckborough
STEER 718 16 A WISE & SON, Chinnor
HEIFER 771.50 878 17 AM SAW, Chinnor
CHAR
HEIFER 630 630 7 R SABINE, Lower Shuckborough
FRIE
STEER 626.50 842 20 T DANCER, North Marston
STEER 582 18 D DURNIN, North Aston
HEIFER 500 500 20 ROYAL VET COLLEGE
HERE
STEER 790.78 852 18 SR TUSTIAN & SON, Swerford
STEER 805 18 SR TUSTIAN & SON, Swerford
STEER 782 18 RJ VALENTINE, Crawley
STEER 780 17 SR TUSTIAN & SON, Swerford
HEIFER 555 555 18 PC & RW WHITE, Stone
LIM
STEER 700 830 8 SOMBORNE PARK FARMS, Little Somborne
STEER 725 8 CJ SABINE, Lower Shuckborough
STEER 715 8 SOMBORNE PARK FARMS, Little Somborne

LIM
HEIFER 672.44 860 17 J & P HEDGES, Milton Common
HEIFER 772 17 MERRICROFT FARMING, Goring Heath
HEIFER 705 17 J & P HEDGES, Milton Common
HEIFER 580 7 SOMBORNE PARK FARMS, Little Somborne
PARTH
STEER 935 935 14 AM SAW, Chinnor
SIMM
STEER 800 850 18 MERRICROFT FARMING, Goring Heath
HEIFER 730 1035 24 MA HUNT, Bovingdon
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WINSLOW@FOSCOTE PRIME MARKET
Auctioneer: SIMON DRAPER
(Gates Open 7.00- Sale starts 10.00am)
MONDAY 3 RD DECEMBER 2012
WINSLOW AT FOSCOTE CHRISTMAS PRIMESTOCK SHOW
This years show was kindly judged by Mr David Plested of Chinnor
who gave the Champion to the first prize heifer – a 549kg Limousin
consigned by Mike Dickens & Family and selling at 330p/kg to Parrott
Bros, Whitchurch.
The Reserve Champion was the first prize steer, a homebred
Limousin from Judy Fountaine selling at 260p/kg at 646kgs to the
judge.
Judy Fountaine also won the best home bred and fed with another
Limousin steer selling at 252p/kg to Ben Coulton.
The Young Farmers beast was won by Thomas Hodges at 585kg for
a Blue x heifer selling to Ben Coulton.
PRIME SHEEP – 1177
The Champion pen of lambs came from the heavy Texel class shown
by AJ & FJ Claridge weighing 47½kgs and selling for £150 each,
bought by Ben Coulton on behalf of Farmers Fresh, Kenilworth. The
Claridge family completed a clean sweep by winning the lightweight
Texel class and reserve Champions weighing 39½kgs and selling to
Ben Coulton for £120/head again for Farmers Fresh.
Trade in general was very strong for the best Continental shapes
44kgs and under, topping at 206p/kg from Richard Haynes and
Richard Fountaine. George Gurney won the Young Farmers class
and sold his at 199p/kg.
Heavy lambs sold to £94.50 for Suffolk x from Chris and Andrew
Whitehead, Nigel Haynes followed at £92.50.
WEIGHT Nos Ave p (£) Top p (£)
STANDARD (32.1 to 39kg) 20 192.74 (£73.00) 206.00 (£77.20)
MEDIUM (39.1 to 45.5kg) 428 167.42 (£72.40) 304.00 (£120.00)
HEAVY (45.6 to 52kg) 493 159.09 (£77.29) 316.00 (£150.00)
OVERWEIGHTS (52+kg) 236 148.75 (£82.45) 169.00 (£94.50)
CULL EWES 14 £70.46 £75.80

CULL EWES
Only a few ewes forward today which was just as well, as the market
was full to capacity.
Cheviot x Mule sold to £75.80 from Michael Cross, Suffolk x sold to
£75.80 from Brian Temple and Continental x to £70.80 from Karina
Gray.
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Top Prices
DEADWEIGHT
Deadweight Report w/e Friday 30 th November 2012
Stock Sold: 206 Cattle and 65 Sheep
UTM Steers £1698 16-30m Bulls £1634 OTM Steers £1017
UTM Heifers £1311 Beef Cows £1311 OTM Heifers £1402
Bulls > 16m £1428 Dairy Cows £413 Mature Bulls £1720
Clean Cattle (168)
Trade remains buoyant as the large outlets continue to compete for
stock. ‘R’ grades selling to 360p/kg. Numbers placed slightly less on
the week.
Steers - A good mixture traded with Aberdeen Angus X leading the
way at £1698 (R4L, 21 months). Whilst a consignment of 5 Aberdeen
Angus X (21months) topped at £1656, average £1541. Others worthy
of mention an Aberdeen Angus at £1562, B/Blue X at £1502 and
Charolais X at £1500. A large number of Holstein/Friesians sold, with
the best at £1380, £1299, £1270 and £1256, with many more in
excess of £1100. A Montbeliarde X selling to £1380.
Heifers - Once again A/Angus X in front at £1311. A consignment of
7 A/Angus X, average age 19.6 months and average £1146 (top
£1251). The best of the Continental X, a Blonde X at £1303, B/Blue X
to £1284 and Charolais X to £1242.
Young Bulls - A limited supply of under 16 months, a Blonde X
topping at £1428 with a Simmental X at £1394. Over 16 months
found more forward. A Charolais X at £1634 in front with S/Devons to
£1467 and £1400.
Prices
Steers/Heifers Young Bulls – under 16
months
16-30 months
U+ to 380p U+ to 375p
-U to 370p -U to 365p -U to 355p
R to 360p R to 355p R to 345p
O+ to 352p O+ to 345p O+ to 335p
-O to 340p -O to 335p

Barren Cows, OTM Clean and Mature Bulls (38)
Beef Cows - Very short on quality this week. A Simmental X at
£1311 topping with a B/Blue at £1109. Many of the cows placed
lacked in flesh and would have benefitted from further feeding.
Dairy Cows - No Holstien/Friesian traded. A Jersey at £413 topping
the section.
OTM’s - Only a few offered, B/Blue heifers selling to £1402, £1332
and a S/Devon X at £1332.
Mature Bulls - A tremendous B/Blue E2 at £1720 and a Hereford
(O+3) to £1102.
Prices
Beef Dairy OTM
R to 285p -U to 260p
O+ to 275p -O to 260p R to 255p
-O to 265p P to 255p O+ to 247p
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