WORLD RECORD PRICE HAT-TRICK AT SKIPTON WORKING SHEEP DOG ONLINE SALE
Source: Farming Life (Extract)
Posted: October 19, 2020
Three new world record prices – £20,000 for a fully broken working sheep dog, £4,200 for an eight-month-old part-broken bitch and £3,700 for an unbroken five-month-old pup – have been established.
They were set at a virtual online sale at Skipton Auction Mart, the first two by top Welsh breeder and triallist, Kevin Evans, the other by Irishman Donal Mullaney, the third consecutive world record price he has achieved at the North Yorkshire venue, all with pups from the same litter.
Mr Evans, of Llwynfedwen Farm, near Brecon in Powys, established the £20,000 highest price ever paid for a dog at an official sale, with his a tri-coloured bitch Henna, who will turn four next month.
It eclipsed the previous world record price of £19,451 for a bitch sold earlier this year at a virtual sale in Wales – and by Kevin’s father no less, Brecon triallist David Evans. This pipped the former world record price of £18,900 established at Skipton in February – the last live dog sale before lockdown – by another bitch from Northumberland shepherdess Emma Gray.
