Bet was sold just before her first birthday. Credit: Kevin Evans / SMH Photography
Two Welsh sheepdogs have broken world records for being sold at online auctions, making them the most expensive untrained young sheepdog and trained sheepdog to ever be sold.
11-week-old puppy Bet, born on the Evans family farm at Libanus near Brecon has become the world s most expensive young sheepdog - before ever rounding up her first flock.
The black and white Border Collie puppy smashed the world record after being sold for £6,100 at an online sheepdog sale.
The record-breaking sale for Bet was almost double the previous record holder of £3,700 - even though she is an untrained pup.
World Record for Sheepdog Pup at Skipton Sale
Welshman Kevin Evans was top dog on price yet again at Skipton Auction Mart’s first online working sheep dog sale of 2021, selling three fully broken dogs for a combined £35,600, while his father David established a new world record price of £6,100 for an unbroken pup.
While none of the top-notch Evans trio was able to get near the £20,000 all-time world record price he established at Skipton last autumn with a red bitch, Henna, almost four-years-old, all three dogs at the latest sale achieved five-figure prices for the legendary breeder and triallist, who has been setting the working sheep dog world alight of late with his charges, many related to the handler’s high profile trials champions.
A Powys sheepdog trialist has set a new world record price after selling an unbroken pup for £6,100. David Evans, who farms at Penclyn, Brecon, sold 11-week-old black and white Border Collie, Bet, at the Skipton online sheepdog sale. Bet is about to embark on a new life with an unnamed buyer in Wales. David smashed the previous unbroken sale record of £3,700 by Northern Ireland’s Donal Mullaney at Skipton last October. He also hit £3,800 – that too would have been a new world record unbroken pup price if not for Bet - with a second 11-week-old black and white bitch, Karven Flash.
WELSHMAN Kevin Evans was top dog on price yet again at Skipton Auction Mart’s first online working sheep dog sale of 2021, selling three fully broken dogs for a combined £35,600, while his father David established a new world record price of £6,100 for an unbroken pup. While none of the top-notch Evans trio was able to get near the £20,000 all-time world record price he established at Skipton last autumn with a red bitch, Henna, almost four-years-old, all three dogs at the latest sale achieved five-figure prices for the legendary breeder and triallist, who has been setting the working sheep dog world alight of late with his charges, many related to the handler’s high profile trials champions.
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