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Knowe Favourite Beauty 166 VG89-3yr topped the sale at 8000gns Top prices of 8000gns, 4200gns, 4100gns and 4000gns were achieved at the Templeton family s Knowe Ayrshire production sale at Carlisle. The sale, celebrating the family s 100 years farming at the Knowe, Auchinleck, Ayrshire, was topped by the maximum pointed three-year-old, Knowe Favourite Beauty 166, by West Mossgiel Modern Classic. Bred from the Ex90 Knowe Favourite Beauty 140, she calved her second in March, and sold sexed to Margot Player, to Northern Ireland breeder, John Hunter, buying for the Ardmore herd from Crumlin. No fewer than 55 lots sold at or above £2000, with Lanarkshire breeder, John Adamson, Swaites, Pettinain, buying the second highest priced lot at 4200gns. His purchase, Knowe White Lily 796, a 23-month-old heifer sold sexed to De La Plaine B-King for next month.