Clive Barton and his father, Col, Barton Partnership, Dunreath, Gowrie, bought four rams to $2400, twice and averaging $1700. The two top-priced rams were from the Poll Dorset section of the catalogue, while the other two rams were composite-bred. One ram was 50 per cent Charolais and 25pc White Suffolk and 25pc Poll Dorset, while the other was 75 pc Charolais and 25pc Poll Dorset.