A top dog from a leading breeder stole the show at a recent working sheepdog sale in North Yorkshire.

Kevin Evans from Llwynfedwen, Brecon, secured the highest price at CCM Skipton’s timed online winter sale with one of his fully trained dogs, a 20-month-old bitch named Glebe Fort Fan.

Fan sold for £11,700 to Martine Campagnett of Vailhauquès in southern France.

Clare Slater: £1,950 pup Nant-y-Moel Ruby (Image: Supplied)

The sale saw Mr Evans achieve a combined total of £20,400 for three dogs—two trained and one unbroken entry.

Glebe Fort Fan had recently been mated to Tedd, a young Evans dog with nursery placements.

His second entry, an 18-month-old dog named Wheatwood Jock, sold for £4,600 to EW & SL Thomas in Carmarthenshire.

Francis Mongan: £4,500 Myfrian Glen (Image: Supplied)

Jock is by Thornbury Max, a South Wales nursery champion, and out of Ian Fowler’s Wheatwood Zeeva.

Mr Evans also topped the unbroken dog section with Ruby, a ten-week-old red and white pup by Swedish import Midderry Frank out of Zac Capern’s Rosewood Fran.

James Gilman: £5,000 Pye Ash Peggy (Image: Supplied)

Ruby sold for £4,100 to Iris Schnetz in Solothurn, Switzerland.

The second-highest sale overall was £5,600 for Nel, a two-year-old bitch from Sheffield’s Jim Alton.

Nel is by Ed Hawking’s Bob, a full brother to Ricky Hutchinson’s trials dog Jonah.

Paul Fairburn: £3800 Roy (Image: Supplied)

David Wood from Hope Valley, Derbyshire, led the part-broken section with Rip, born in February.

Rip, by David Howells’ Cai, made £5,300 and was sold to regular Belgian buyer Jo De Meyst.

Cheshire handler James Gilman of Bosley, Macclesfield, sold two homebred litter sisters for a combined £8,300.

Kevin Evans: £4,100 top price pup Ruby (Image: Supplied)

Both born in March and sired by his own dog Harry, Pye Ash Peggy sold for £5,000 to James Heggie of Kinross, and Pye Ash Floss made £3,300 to Luke Ayrton of Lancaster.

Northern Ireland’s Johnny Farmer, Ballymena, achieved £8,100 for two part-broken 2024 dogs.

Jim Alton: £5,600 Nel (Image: Supplied)

The top price was £4,600 for Bob, sold to Bernd Nöthen of Bergheim, Germany.

His other dog, Tanat Valley Prince, made £3,500 and was purchased by Tom Bebb in Powys.

Francis Mongan from Cullionboy, County Donegal, sold Myfrian Glen for £4,500.

Glen is by Dewi Jenkins’ Clwyd Bob, the 2025 International Supreme champion, and returns to Donegal with Charles Gallagher of Letterkenny.

Other notable sales included Paul Fairburn of Thornton Steward, Lower Wensleydale, who sold four-year-old Roy for £3,800 to Alex Hawrtree of Gillingham, Dorset.

Roy is by Jessica Saukkonen’s Sango Gannon, bred by Jock Sutherland.

Carmarthenshire’s Logan Williams sold Nedwin Tara, a fully homebred 2023 bitch by Efail Mick, for £3,500 to Mark Davison of Selby.

Jean Howes of Consett, County Durham, sold Golyafar Dyffryn Cap, a newly trained two-year-old, for £3,300 to S E & H B Robinson of Dunsop Bridge.

In the unbroken section, 11 entries made four-figure sums.

Second-highest was Claire Slater’s Nant-y-Moel Ruby, a September-born bitch by Whiteley Ted, which sold for £1,950 to Joshua Jack of Milton Keynes.

Irish vendor Neil Rutherford of Hillsborough sold Ballycrune Dawn, a 13-week-old pup by Spud, for £1,800 to the Tait family of Tresta in the Shetland Isles.

Adam Dick of Hergill, Northallerton, sold Kirkbymoor Moss, a January-born pup, for £1,750, while Ian Carroll of Anglesey achieved £1,650 for Glan Y Gors Lad, born in June.

Of the 47 dogs catalogued, 36 were sold, with four-figure averages across all categories—fully broken, part-broken, and unbroken.

Fully broken bitches averaged £5,820.

Skipton’s next working sheepdog sale, a live field-run event, will take place on February 27.

A border collie from Ceredigion has smashed the record for the world’s most expensive sheepdog after being sold for more than £27,000.

Twelve-month-old Kim, who was trained by Dewi Jenkins of Talybont, near Aberystwyth, was sold at an online auction by Farmers Marts of Dolgellau.

Mr Jenkins said Kim had been bought by a farmer from Staffordshire.

The sale has beaten the previous record set by border collie Henna, from Brecon, which sold for £20,000.

The average price for a working dog is about £2,000.

 

Mr Jenkins said Kim was sold a few days before her first birthday, which also makes her the world’s most expensive sheepdog under 12 months old – beating Mr Jenkins’ own record of £12,000 for border collie Tynygraig Jet, set in July.

Wayne Hutchinson

Despite her young age, Mr Jenkins said Kim’s intelligence meant she worked as well as a three-year-old sheepdog.

“She was doing everything – she worked cattle and sheep, she was ready for any trials or farm work for anybody,” he explained.

“To top it off, she’s a red colour and they are in fashion at the moment.”

Dewi Jenkins

Mr Jenkins, a farmer, trains sheepdogs in his spare time. He said the fact Kim had become so capable in such a short period time was remarkable.

“Everything I trained her to do, she knew by the second time. She was a very fast learner.”

Mr Jenkins, a Welsh speaker, trains his dogs in English which allows him to sell them across the world, including in the United States, Norway, Belgium, France and the Republic of Ireland.

‘Sad to see her go’

“I was sad to see her go, but at least I know she’s going to a good home,” said Mr Jenkins.

He said it was “tempting to keep a dog that intelligent”, but hopes to be able to buy one of her puppies if and when she breeds.

For now, Mr Jenkins said he can now spend a bit more time working with the other sheepdogs he is training.

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