Reserve champion was a 565kg Limousin-cross steer shown by Brian Lund of Walshaw, Hebden Bridge, which joined Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton, Bradford, for the top by-weight price of 238.5p/kg, or £1,348.

Meanwhile, Mark Townley, of Claughton, near Lancaster, seized the prime lamb championship with his pair of Continentals, weighing 39kg, which were sold for £108 each to Yorkshire Halal Meat Suppliers, from Ossett.

Another pair of Continentals, weighing 41kg, from Tim Robinson, of Longridge, clinched the reserve championship, courtesy of show judge Mick Etherington. They were sold to regular Skipton buyers, Binns Family Butchers in Saltaire, run by Dick and Barbara Binns, for £110 per head, who also bought the first-prize-winning pair of Down-cross lambs from Robert Towers, of Farleton, Lancaster, for £115 each.

Yorkshire Halal picked up the third-prize-winning pair of Continentals, also sold by Tim Robinson, for £98, while Keelham Farm Shop also took away the second prize winners in the Down-cross category, again from Robert Towers, for £105. Another regular Skipton buyer, Andrew Atkinson, of Felliscliffe, bought the third placed Down-cross pair for £106.

It was a smaller bank holiday show of hoggs, which were a shade better to sell on the week – a shortage of numbers just created a little more competition. Spring lambs were also dearer on the week.

A total number of 1,484 prime sheep were put forward, including 197 spring lambs, 1,160 prime hoggs, 119 cast ewes and eight rams.

Spring lambs sold for an overall average of £92.48 per head, or 215.78p/kg. Charolais averaged £92.59 per head, or 215.4p/kg, Suffolk averaged £87.77 per head, or 211.4p/kg, and Texels averaged £94.23 per head, or 230.8p/kg.

Prime hoggs sold to an overall average of £74.80 per head, or 171.4p/kg, with top price per head claimed by DN&D Capstick, of Bolton-by-Bowland, at £101 each for their Texels, and top price per kg reached by Martin, Val, and Hannah Brown from Newton-le-Willows, Bedale, for Texels which sold for 196.3p/kg. Texels averaged £78.22 per head, or 176.9p/kg.

Cull ewes averaged £68.17 per head, topping out at £116.50 each for a lowland pen belonging to R&E Pollard, of Colne. Cast rams averaged £97.38 pet head, with top price reached again by R&E Pollard, who sold a Texel for £113.50.

There were 23 prime cattle put forward – seven clean cattle under 30 months, three clean cattle over 30 months and 13 cast cattle.

As well as the champion, Bill Cowperthwaite also sold another Limousin steer for £1,405, while CD & RF Kitching, from Threshfield, sold a Limousin-cross for £1,374.

Prime cattle over 30 months sold for an overall average of 141.08p/kg, or £782.74, with top price per head and per kg reached by M&R Smith, from Gargrave, for a Highland steer selling for £1,032 or 179.5p/kg.

JJ Beckwith & Sons, from Gargrave, also sold a black and white heifer for £732, while I Fothergill sold a Simmental heifer for £585.

Cull cow prices had an overall average of 112.98 p/kg, or £701.04, while mature bulls sold to an overall average of 92.99p/kg, or £760.96, with top price reached by MJ & PJ Campbell, of Arncliffe, who sold a British White for £958, or 102.5p/kg.

In the weekly produce sale, quad bales sold to £75 per ton, round bales to £10 per bale and small bales to £2.60 per bale.