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The world's most expensive sheep has just been purchased for $490,000
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The world's most expensive sheep has just been purchased for $490,000
By Lauren Johnson, CNN
Updated 7:07 PM ET, Sat August 29, 2020
Double Diamond is a Texel sheep that just broke the world record for price sold.
(CNN)A sheep sold for a record 350,000 guineas -- or around $490,000 in American money -- at an auction in Scotland this week.
The lamb, named Double Diamond, had generated buzz before the Scottish National Texel sale in Lanark started, according to a news release from the Texel Sheep Society. Bidding started at 10000 guineas (about but $13,000).
A bidding war drove up the price until an agreement was reached for the sheep to be shared between three farms.
"It's just like every other business -- horse racing or the cattle business," Jeff Aiken, one of the winning bidders, told The Guardian. "Every once in a while something special comes along and yesterday an extra special Texel turned up. Everyone wanted a piece of it."
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By Lauren Johnson, CNN
Updated 7:07 PM ET, Sat August 29, 2020
Double Diamond is a Texel sheep that just broke the world record for price sold.
(CNN)A sheep sold for a record 350,000 guineas -- or around $490,000 in American money -- at an auction in Scotland this week.
The lamb, named Double Diamond, had generated buzz before the Scottish National Texel sale in Lanark started, according to a news release from the Texel Sheep Society. Bidding started at 10000 guineas (about but $13,000).
A bidding war drove up the price until an agreement was reached for the sheep to be shared between three farms.
"It's just like every other business -- horse racing or the cattle business," Jeff Aiken, one of the winning bidders, told The Guardian. "Every once in a while something special comes along and yesterday an extra special Texel turned up. Everyone wanted a piece of it."
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