With sales continuing to be strong over the past week, numbers lifted with agents yarding 50150 head. Lamb numbers increased to 36500 and quality was improved from the previous weeks. There was a good offering of finished and grain assisted lambs available and there was more weight yarded than the previous sale. The usual buyers were present and competing in another buoyant market. A few pens of new season lambs sold from $232 to $312/head. Trade weight old lambs were $4 to $8 better to sell from $230 to $318/head heavyweights were firm to $8 dearer with those to 26kg receiving from $301 to $338/ head. Export lambs again attracted strong competition on an excellent yarding with 3 pens surpassing the previous record. Prices ranged from $296 to a new national record of $454/head. Carcase prices averaged from 1072c to 1240c/kg. Heavy Merino lambs sold from $283 to $350/head. There was 13650 mutton penned and quality was very mixed but prices remained strong. Merino ewes sold from $128 to $273/head. Crossbreds received from $144 to $282 with Dorper ewes reaching $259/head. Merino wethers sold from $134 to $230/head.