A sheep has sold for a record 128,100. The five-month-old ram sold in Lanark when it came up for auction with the best of this year's batch of Texel ram lambs. The ram, which was bought by a consortium from Turriff, Aberdeenshire, will be used for breeding.

　　Brian Ross, secretary of the Scottish arm of the British Texel Sheep Society and also the auctioneer who sold the animal, said Britain was now possibly the biggest supplier of Texels, sought after because of their high quality. "Yes it was a high price to pay for one but it was bought by a consortium of five members which took the price down for each of them," he said. "These people are continually striving for perfection. It was an open market, there were two groups bidding for it and they thought it to be the very best of what came up for auction that day."

　　The sheep was sold by David and Jean Houghton, from Bury, Lancashire and bought by the Turriff consortium of Colin Mair, Margaret Lyon, Willie Knox, Sandy Lee Foradafourie and Robert Forsyth.

　　The sale beats the previous record for a sheep of 105,000.