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Thirty years ago a group of blackface breeders in the Mourne and Slieve Croob area, who had been breeding short coated blackface sheep for many years, came up with the idea of establishing a breed sale to expand the blackface breeding flock both locally and indeed further afield. Their aim was to give Northern Ireland farmers the chance to buy quality blackface rams without the hassle of the travel to and import restrictions encountered by trips to Scotland. In the intervening years there has naturally evolved a change in emphasis as an ever increasing number of quality female stock were presented for sale until the present day when the sale has now gained a reputation as one of the leading blackface sales of female stock of the Newton Stewart/Lanark type anywhere in Northern Ireland as well a place to buy quality Mule ewe lambs. This reputation is reflected by the number of buyers who return year after year to the sale, happy with their previous purchases and keen to get their hands on even more quality stock as well as an increasing number of new faces as the reputation of the stock on sale reaches an ever increasing receptive audience