Grahams Ruth, a Limousin with bull calf at foot from Robert and Jean Graham, Stirling, continued on her winning ways at a warm, dry Drymen Show, winning the breed honours, supreme beef and overall champion of champions.

This big show winner from last year is a four-year-old by Claragh Franco, and was shown with her second calf, a November-born bull by Huntershall Gladiator, by herdsman, Stewart Bett and his wife Lynsey. Overall champion of champions at Ayr, Ruth landed the inter-breed beef honours at the Royal Highland and the Royal Welsh in 2023 and was also overall champion of champions here, Gargunnock and Stirling, to name but a few.

Adding to the Graham celebrations, Jersey herd manager, Leanne Bertram, Mains of Boquhan, scooped the inter-breed dairy honours with her own Clydevalley Victoria Circus, an in-calf heifer bought privately last year from Robert Hunter. First in her class as a calf at Dumfries Show last year, she is by Victorious and was paraded due to Ferdinand

For the supreme, the overall beef and dairy winners were up against the inter-breed sheep champion, the lead Clydesdale horse and Highland pony winners.

Topping the sheep section was a big Suffolk ewe from John Christie, Westcarse, Stirling. His previously unshown entry is a two-crop daughter of Ballyboe Boe which also bred the Westcarse Scottish National winner for David McMillan, Bute.

The champion Clydesdale and Highland pony winners were also forward in the shape of Robert Sibbald's Shielhill Platinum Queen, a two-year-old filly by Macfin Starlight and Suzanne Potter's four-year-old stallion, Finches Victory, a cream dun pony by Balmoral Mandarin, respectively.

Andrew Hornall, Falleninch, Stirling, was reserve inter-breed beef with Falleninch Tiziana, a 22-month-old Charolais heifer and John and Archie MacGregor, Allanfauld, Kilsyth, won the equivalent amongst the sheep with a Knap-bred Texel shearling ram owned in partnership with the Ettrick flock.

For the full report and pictures see next week's issue of The Scottish Farmer and online in our digital edition ( June 1, 2024)