BIDS reached a top of $1400 twice with the hammer falling to the same bidder at the Tongara White Suffolk ram sale on Wednesday last week.
The vendors cleared 106 of 108 lots at the Netherton auction.
Tongara principal Leigh Richards said there were three or four new clients, including the top-price buyer, and several repeat volume clients.
"I've been in it long enough that I'm getting repeat buyers, which is what you want," he said.
Lyndon Hampel, Nadda Farms, Loxton, bought three rams at the sale, including the two that made the top-price.
"I'm looking for meaty, blocky rams with some length and depth and good body structure," he said.
Mr Hampel runs 2500 breeding Merino ewes with half joined to Merino rams and half for prime lamb production.
Both top-price rams shared the same sire, Days WF 337.
Lot 6, a twin, weighed 114kg with a post-weaning eye muscle depth of 1.4 and post-weaning weight of 14.3.
Lot 50, a late July-drop, had a bodyweight of 112kg, and a post- weaning weight of 16.2.
"He's a young one with good figures," Mr Richards said.
Volume buyers were Reichstein Pastoral, through Elders Coonalpyn, who bought 11 rams; RG&VM Poole, Elders Murray Bridge, nine; Jachmann Farming, Landmark Loxton, eight; and the Schmaal family, Elders Coonalpyn, six.
* Full report in Stock Journal, September 11, 2014 issue.