A prized sheep bred at a Scots farm has sold at auction for £210,000 – more than the cost of a 200mph Lamborghini Huracan.
At 200,000 guineas, Midlock Capaldi, a lamb of the Texel breed, became the second highest-priced sheep to sell in the UK.
The animal was bred by farmers Alan and Karen Wight, and children Andrew, Ben and Katie, at Midlock Farm in Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Midlock Capaldi was said to be the “talk of the yard from the moment he set foot in the market”.
He was bought by a consortium of Hugh and Alan Blackwood for their Auldhouseburn flock, in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, and Charlie Boden, for the Sportsmans and Mellor Vale flocks in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Alan Wight said the lamb had been a “stand out” from two weeks old.
He said: “You knew he was one to watch and he had that extra something the best ones always have.”
British Texel Sheep Society chief executive John Yates said the ram lamb could make his money back in a year or two.
He added: “What we have to remember is that these breeders are investing in the future of their businesses in both the short and long-term.”
The highest price ever achieved for a sheep is £231,000, for Deveronvale Perfection, also a Texel, in Lanark, in August, 2009.
