The Worlds most expensive sheep. A record two hundred and twenty thousand pounds has been paid for Deveronvale Perfection A 2009 Feb born Texel Ram owned by Aberdeenshire farmer Graham Morrison..The Ram sold at Lanark Auction Mart,Lanark,Scotland...According to Guinness World Records, the world's most expensive sheep, a Collinsville stud, was bought in 1989 in Adelaide, Australia, for 205,000...
mail_sender T SCRIVENER
mail_subject RE The Ultimate Ram Raid Pics Attached
mail_date Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:08:41 +0000 (GMT)
mail_body This MAY just be the ultimate ram raid =E2=80=93 and one which is guarantee=
d to leave any bank manager feeling a little sheepish.A Banff-based sheep f=
armer has paid almost quarter of a million pounds for one tup, and in doing=
so set a world record for the most money paid for a sheep.=C2=A0The sale of eight-month-old Texel Ram called Deveronvale Perfection sold at=
Lawrie & Symington livestock auction house for a record-breaking price of =
220,000 guineas, the equivalent of =C2=A3231,000.=C2=A0A packed amarket =C2=A0at Lanark Mart fell silent as auctioneer David Lowry=
took 10,000-guinea bids before dropping his gavel on the =C2=A3231,000. It=
eclipsed the previous record of =C2=A3205,000 paid in 1989 in Australia fo=
r a Merino tup.=C2=A0It also smashed the UK and the Texel breed record which had stood at 122,00=
0gns (=C2=A3128,000) paid for Tophill Joe in 2004 =E2=80=93 also set at the=
Lanark auction.=C2=A0Farmer=C2=A0Jimmy Douglas=C2=A0is known within the sheep-farming world for =
his pedigree flocks, and was also responsible for paying a record amount fo=
r a Suffolk ram in Edinburgh earlier this year, when he bought a tup for 63=
,000 gns (=C2=A366,150).
Meanwhile, the rams owner Graham Morrison, of Banff, who sold the sheep, sa=
id of the sale: "He's the best lamb I've ever bred and the price surpassed =
my wildest dreams."Tim Scrivener Agricultural Photography
=0AVine Cotta ألقت الشرطة السعودية بمكة المكرمة على مقيمَيْن يحتالان بعرض سندات هدي وأضاحٍ في محافظة بحرة.
واوضحت شرطة منطقة مكة المكرمة أنها القت القبض على مقيمَيْن من الجنسيتين المصرية واليمنية لعرضهما سندات هدي وأضاحٍ في محافظة بحرة بغرض النصب والاحتيال.
وأضافت، أنه جرى إيقافهما واتخاذ الإجراءات النظامية بحقهما وإحالتهما إلى النيابة العامة.
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