A total of 37 registered bidders operated.

An average of $1455 was achieved for the Poll rams and $1060 for the White Suffolks. 

In the Poll section of the sale topper went to new clients Zammitt Pastoral, Victoria, buying through H F Richardson. 

Mr Zammitt made his purchases by phone bids. He secured one ram for $3500 and another two as well. 

Lot 12 – the top ram –  was a  well balanced Poll ram with 19.4 micron wool, 120 percent wool cut and 92kg body weight. 

Stud principal, Peter Routley, said the rams stood up well and presented excellently given the wet winter.

“We are proud of them and how the have lined up,” he said. 

The rain didn’t deter buyers in the White Suffolk shed either, with Lot 8 making a sale top of $3000. 

He was secured by repeat buyers the Fischer family of Clive White Suffolk Stud, Yerong Creek.

It was the Fischers who bought the top-priced ram for $3200 at the Almondvale on-property sale last year too. 

He weighed 108 kilograms and had  6mm of fat and had an EMA of 27.53, the best in the sale. 

Another ram made $2750 and was bought by Blenpol Pastoral of Deniliquin. He was a son of Torpedo the $10,500 sire purchased in 2013. “It was wonderful to have so many return buyers operating on the day,” Paul Routley said. 

“It shows the rams are doing the job.” Volume buyers were the Forrest family "New Columbia" Corobimilla taking home 10 White Suffolks.

The Sweeny family of Bimbi purchased a mix of both breeds to take home nine Rams. 

Shields Partnership Corobimiila secured eight White Suffolks. 

“There was a great spread of areas where the rams went,” Mr Routley said.

He said some ram buying clients had been unable to attend the auction due to the extreme wet weather. As a result the stud had sold some additional rams by private treaty.

The Almondvale Stud sale was conducted by Landmark stud stock with Peter Cabot and Peter Godbolt taking the bids.