Bob and Ruby Simpson take champion at Aberfeldy show and sale

Judge Mike Douglas, Wray House, found his supreme in a 488kg Limousin cross bullock that went on to sell for the top price of £2600.

Reserve was a 514kg heifer from Pittentian Farming Partnership, that sold for £2550.

The same home also won the champion pen of four which produced an average weight of 547kg and sold for £2540.

Sponsor of the Aberfeldy show and sale, Roy Nicol, Starlyne Macmin Group; judge Mike Douglas; prize winners Bob and Ruby Simpson, Mains of Creuchies; and UA managing director George Purves

Leading Awards

Single bullock – 1 and champion, R Simpson and Son, Mains of Creuchies, 488kg, £2600; 2, Ross Farms and Co, Wester Middleton, 502kg, £2550; 3, Pittentian Farming Partnership, 547kg, £2540.

Single heifer – 1 and reserve, Pittentian Farming Partnership, 514kg, £2550; 2, R Simpson and Son, 428kg, £2000; 3, A and R Paton, Easter Greenhill, 450kg, £2100.

Pen of four bullocks – 1 and champion, Pittentian Farm Partnership, 547kg, £2540; 2, W McLaren, Muirhouses, 492kg, £2300; 3, R Simpson and Son, 456kg, £2220.

Pen of four heifers – 1, Pittentian Farm Partnership, 443kg, £2200; 2, A Doig, East Buchanty, 367kg, £1500; 3, R Simpson and Son, 428kg, £2000.