Livestock Champions at Royal Highland Show announced

Published on Sunday 26 June 2011 15:57

CATTLE

ON SATURDAY, the Beef Shorthorn champion took the overall beef interbreed championship for the first time since 1999.

The overall winner, six-year-old bull Trojan of Craigeassie, was bought at the Perth bull sales in 2007 for 6,000 guineas by Harry Horrell, Pode farm, Peterborough, from breeders Lord and Lady Glendyne, Craigeassie, Forfar. Trojan had picked up the same top award at the East of England show in Peterborough just a week ago.

Interbreed judge John Wight, of Midlock, Lanark, said it was a close call between the big Shorthorn bull and the representative of the Hereford breed - four-year-old bull, Normanton 1 Eastern Promise, who had taken the interbreed award at the Three Counties show last weekend for his owner, Tim Livesay, Lowerfields Mushroom farm, Leicestershire.

Continental breeds similarly dominated the team event. Top team were Limousins, with a bull from Ronald Dick, Ronick, the cow from Grahams of Airthereykerse, and heifers from Harry Emslie, Mintlaw and Redpath farms, Kelso. The Limousins also took the cattle pairs competition.

SHEEP

The sheep interbreed championship - judged by Hugh Guthrie of Kilmarnock - went to the Blackface champion from Willie Ramsay & Sons, Milnmark, Castle Douglas with a shearling tup bred by the McClymonts of Cuil and bought last year at Newton Stewart for 7,500.

Reserve was the home-bred North Country Cheviot gimmer from the Runcimans, of Allanshaws, Galashiels.

Both the champion and the reserve featured at the top end of the pairs competition. The Suffolk ewe lamb teamed up with a ram lamb from Robbie Wilson, North Dorlaithers, Turriff, to take the championship, with the Blackface shearling tup from Milnmark linking up with a gimmer from the Wights of Midlock, Lanark to take the reserve place.

HORSES

A TWO-year-old Clydesdale filly, Ormiston Mains Amber, owned by Robert Trotter and brought out by Ronald Black, Newton of Collessie, Ladybank took the Queens Cup which rotates around the sections and this year went to the overall champion in the heavy horse section.

POULTRY

The champion in the poultry section was a black Orpington hen from Steven Holt, Ringford, Castle Douglas with the reserve a Belgian Natural Danver quail from Hugh Wallace, Bonnybridge.