IT was quite a sight when seven champions of six different species took to the main ring for the overall championship at Strathaven Show, on Saturday, but it was the largest of these, the Clydesdale leader, that ruled supreme.

Picked out by David Shedden, Burnfoot, that was Charlotte Young’s Forneth Lucky Daisy, a six-year-old Collessie Whinhill President daughter that has only had a few, but highly successful, outings this year.

Leading the dairy section was the Ayrshire leader, a fourth calver named Silverrigg Moira 27 from Messrs Leggate that was also champion at Chapelton while among the beef cattle it was the continental section leader, Sandy and Jemma’s Charolais heifer, Edenhurst Jenny, that went better than her Biggar and Moffat show championships to win the beef inter-breed title.

Iain Nimmo’s Maraiscote Legend, a pure Limousin bullock from the beef section, stood reserve.

Over in the sheep lines, it was Feddal Road Yeehaa, a Texel tup lamb by Tullach Whiskey from Gordon Howatson, that won the inter-breed ahead of John Cousar’s Beltex gimmer, Clary Alexa.

Also in the main ring for the champion of champions was the winning goat, Anne Dick’s Rowangate Nikklipse; Neil Watson’s poultry champion, a three-year-old silver Kraienkoppe cockerel; and the dog champion, a three-year-old whippet named Rushton So You Think that also goes by the name Peawee.

Other inter-breed sections saw a trio of well-matched Limousins from Archie Lindsay take the group of three title ahead of Simmentals from J and E Dyet, while two from Willie Boyd’s Dechmont flock of Texels led the sheep pairs and two Beltex from John Cousar filled the reserve spot.

See this week's issue of The Scottish Farmer, out September 10, for the full report, results and pictures from Strathaven Show.