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2008 shows |
National, County and Local Shows - accolades shower down on North West Club members
Ever the optimists many of our top showmen bit the bullet
and sent off the entries to the shows and prepared their high value cattle
to travel to ‘those
parts that others could not reach’. Not withstanding the reduced class
sizes the quality of ‘Blues’ at the shows meant that every class
had to be won and there were no ‘walkovers’ to be had. Jane & Danny Wyllie’s impressive stock bull Ballygrange Alex, by Woodview Solo out of Ballygrange Roxy, travelled the length and breadth of the zone picking up Breed Championships at The Royal Show and the Great Yorkshire show, Reserve Breed Champion at the Royal Cornwall Show and Stafford County Show and was one of the group that won the Interbreed Group of Three at Stafford. He was breed Reserve Male Champion at Leicester County Show.
Adam Neachell’s ever increasing and outstanding show team were also putting in the mileage with stock bull Solway View Antonio, by Serum D’Anloy out of Ridge Dean Wren, Tamhorn Up Town Girl, by Baron Du Bois Bauloye out of Tamhorn Milly, accompanied by her naturally born calf Cromwell Del Boy, by Solway View Antonio, Cromwell Classy Boots, by Tamhorn Victorious out of Tamhorn Something Special, Ridge Dean Rita, by Visconti De St Fountaine out of Ridge Dean Koshor and the newly acquired Nether Hall Clever Girl, by Bringlee Volkawagon out of Zwierig Et Vd Wildebeck gathering prizes at all the shows attended. Tamhorn Up Town Girl, with Cromwell Del Boy following her every move, took the Breed Championship and Reserve Interbreed Championship at Stafford County and was one of the group which won the Interbreed Group of Three. Up Town Girl also took the Breed Championship at Shropshire & West Mids Show, Cheshire Show and Reserve Breed Champion at Three Counties Show and The Royal Show. Solway View Antonio was Breed Champion at Newark and Notts Show and the Three Counties Show, Reserve Male Champion at The Royal Show, and the Male Champion at Shropshire & West Mids Show. Cromwell Classy Boots was Reserve Female Champion and Reserve Best Junior Animal at the Leicester Show, and Reserve Female Champion at Newark & Notts Show. Nether Hall Clever Girl won her class at Cheshire Show and joined cattle from the Astbury and Graymar herds who went on to become Reserve Interbreed Group of 4 Champions. Clever Girl also won her class at The Shropshire & West Mids Show and again joined with cattle from the Graymar and Ludlow herds they went on the win the Group of Five Interbreed Tiverton Cup Championship. At The Royal Show she was judged Breed Champion Junior Heifer and Overall Junior Champion. Ridge Dean Rita joined by Antonio and Classy Boots won the breed Group
of Three class at Newark & Notts Show, and stood second in the breed Senior
Cow class at The Royal Show.
Matthew Jones and his Graymar herd also had new members in their 2008 show team. Graymar Churchill made a distinguished first appearance on the show circuit at Stafford County Show were he was awarded the Reserve Male Championship. This son of Bringlee Talbot was produced by Bringlee Viv and is a half brother to their last year’s successful show bull Bringlee Banjo. He was Breed Junior Champion, Exhibitor Bred Champion and Reserve Overall Champion at the Cheshire Show. On the second day of the show he was judged Reserve Interbreed Junior Beef Champion. At Shropshire & West Mids he was breed Reserve Male Champion, Exhibitor Bred Champion and Reserve Interbreed Exhibitor Bred Champion. At the Nantwich & South Cheshire Show he stood breed Reserve Male Champion to his sire and when joined by herd companions Bringlee Beth and Henlli Cleopatra they stood second in the breed Group of Three class. Bringlee Beth a Colibri Du Coin daughter out of Bringlee Sandy, made an impressive start on her first time out at Stafford Show, taking first prize in her Junior Maiden Heifer class and joined by Churchill they won the Breed Pairs class. At Cheshire she stood first in her class and then joined Churchill and cattle from the Astbury and Cromwell herds when they took Reserve place in the Mason & Moore Dutton Best Team of Four Beef Cattle Championship. Beth and Churchill also joined forces with cattle from the Cromwell and Ludlow herds to take the Championship in the Interbreed Team of Five Tiverton Cup class which made it a back to back triumph for the Blues at the Shropshire & West Mids Show. Royal Deeside Abigail with her five months old calf Graymar Denman at foot made her debut at the Shropshire & West Mids which saw them take the blue ticket in their class, this success was repeated at Nantwich & South Cheshire Show. Henlli Cleopatra had her second outing at the Nantwich & South Cheshire
Show where she won her class, took the Reserve Female ticket and went on to
be judged the Reserve Overall Breed Champion. A successful show career surely
beckons this Cajoleur de Rettigny and Bringlee Sandy daughter.
Jim Barber brought out some of his show team at the Cheshire Show. Astbury Commander by Affute Du Ay Ossogne took the blue ticket in Junior Bull Class and third place in the same class at Nantwich & South Cheshire. Two Sceptre De Bomal daughters made their debut, Astbury Babe taking second place in her class and Astbury Willow with Astbury Duchess, her three months old Cristal de Somme calf at foot, won her class and went on to become Reserve Exhibitor Bred Champion. At Nantwich, on their first time out this season Immense De Beauraing
was second in his Senior Bull Class and Astbury Wallnut, with her three months
old Immense sired calf Astbury Darral at foot, stood third in her class.
Graham Brindley considers Nantwich & South Cheshire as his local show and brought more than 12 Bringlee cattle in support. On his first ever visit to a showground his senior bull Bringlee Talbot took the Male Championship. Bringlee Vandy, a Sceptre De Bomal daughter out of Bringlee Sandy, took the Female Championship and went on to become Overall Breed Champion. Bringlee Carlow, by Cajoleur de Rettigny out of Bringlee Sandy stood second in his Junior Bull class. Bringlee Beattie, an Inveresk Vincent daughter out of Raspoutine De Haute Somme, stood second in her class and third in the same class was Phillip and Louise Brindley’s, Bringlee Talbot sired, Blue Mist Blossom. The Group of Three Class saw three
Bringlee Sandy progeny take the red ticket, Bringlee Carlow, and two Baron
Du Bois Bauloye daughters, Bringlee Cherry and Rachel Brindley’s Blueberry
Candy. In the Calf Class Bringlee’s
Digby, Dahlia (Vandy’s daughter) and Donna take 1st, 3rd and 4th places
respectively. The second place went to Boomer Birch’s Boomer DKNY an
Operateur De Fontena son out of Boomer Armani.
Gavin Boocock took full brothers Edmonds Barney and Edmonds Baloo by Gitan Du P’Tit Mayeur out of Wood Hall Viola to The Great Yorkshire Show where they stood second and third in their class to Ballygrange Alex. Lucky enough to be in the ‘clean area’ Geoff
Walker’s Brennand
Candy, by Colibri Du Coin out of Bringlee Sandy, competed at The Goosnargh
and Longridge Show, Great Harwood Show, and The Great Eccleston Show where
she took the Overall Breed and Interbreed Championships. At The Garstang Show
Brennand Candy achieved the remarkable result of being judged Champion British
Blue, Supreme Champion Pedigree Beef Animal and Interbreed Exhibitor Bred Champion
this was the first time a heifer had managed to achieve the ‘clean sweep’.
Along with two herd companions, one a full sister, they went on to be awarded
Interbreed Best Group of Three. |
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