PM & LA Sounness, Lower King, made the long trek north and didn’t go home empty handed, paying the sale’s $1150 second top price for a Poll Merino ram in lot nine containing a 83.5kg son of 18Z066 testing 16-micron, 2.5 SD and 100pc CF, scanned 4.2mm fat and 29mm EMD with ASBVs including -2.08 YFD (top 20pc), 0.87 YFAT (top 30pc) and 1.29 YEMD (top 40pc).