This year there was only one from outside the area.
''It was better supported by locals,'' Taylor said.
He attributed the high prices to ''positivity in the wool market and in the lamb market''.
Prices had started off really well around Christmas, but he expected there would be more of a lull by now.
With such a high number of lambs on offer, buyers would find something they liked, Taylor said.
They could also be confident that lambs reared on such tough country would ''come off there pretty good''.
He expected the Tekapo lamb sale, which followed in the afternoon, would achieve similar results, although some of the stock came from easier country.
Fellow Peter Walsh and Associates livestock broker Lindsay Holland confirmed Tekapo was ''pretty much the same as Omarama''.
''It was very, very strong. There was a tremendous buying gallery there, and they stayed until the end.
''There were a lot of black-faced merinos and half-breds.''
The vendors were happy, but the purchasers were ''hurting a bit'', Holland said.
One farmer who did not buy anything at Omarama thought he had better pick up something at Tekapo.
The highest price paid was $151 for merinos from The Wolds Station.
''They were good sheep.
''They're big sheep, they'll cut a good clip, and you'll get them away with no trouble at all to meet your lamb contract,'' Holland said.
He believed - and hoped - the buoyant sales would carry on.
