Regular winners, Michael Robertson and son Mark, Fodderletter Farms, Tomintoul, won the Rising Stars championship for the second year in succession, with a half brother to the 2022 supreme, Maui.
The father and son duo who took the tri-colour at this event for a fifth time, led the way with Brewdog, a nine-month-old home-bred bullock that stood reserve at the Agri-Expo at Carlisle. He is sired by the Limousin stock bull, Beachmont Pacman, an 8000gns purchase at Carlisle and out of Bucks Fizz, a home-bred British Blue cross dam that bred last year’s champion.
The Robertsons who run 80 commercial cattle and a further 20 pedigree females, had two cattle forward for the event to include last year’s Rising Stars champion, which went on to win the reserve overall in the prime cattle section the following day.
Finlay Hunter (15), Wester Cairnhill, Culsalmond, topped a strong Young Farmers’ section, taking the tri-colour with Ziggy, a 5.5-month-old Limousin cross bullock. He is an AI son of Johnston Premier – a sire that produced Andrew Gammie’s Royal Northern Spring Show champion, Toyboy, in February. Equally notable, the dam, a British Blue cross cow bought from Darren Irvine after being shown at the Spring Show, has bred three top calves with the first cashed enablishing Mr Hunter to establish his up and coming Sunset Suffolk flock. The second calf, a heifer has been retained for breeding.
Leading Awards
Senior heifer calf – 1, Fraser Family, Easter Clune, with Bluey, Lim X by Spittalton Overdrive; 2, Miller Farms, North Lurg, with Sugar Rush, Lim X by Westpit Reno; 3, Miller Farms’ Proud Mary, Lim X by Westpit Reno.
Junior heifer calf – 1, G Cameron, Newton Cottage, with Hips Don’t Lie, Lim X by Forhillfarm Ourbest; 2, S and Lily Smith, Sunnyhill Farm, with Ginger, Lim X bred by U MacDonald, Lower Cairnglass; 3, R and D Wright, Woodend, Ardgour, Lim X by Monster.
Bullock calf – 1, open champion and supreme, W Robertson and Son, Fodderletter, with Brewdog, Lim X by Beachmont Pacman; 2, G Hendry, Heads of Auchinderran, with Lim X; 3, Miller Farms’ Boris, Lim X by Westpit Reno.
YFC heifer – 1, Jack Hendry, Craibstone, with Lim X; 2, Jasmin Strachan, Backhill of Camaloun, with Salers X bred by JL Horner, Cluseburn.
YFC bullock – 1 and YFC champion, Finlay Hunter, West Cairnhill, with Ziggy, Lim X by Johnston Premier; 2, Craig Coutts, Anfield, Mains of Tonley, with Bees Knees, Lim X by Duncans Peter bred by G and A Duncan, Tulloch Forbes; 3, Jayne Mitchell, Ploverwards, Grange, with Pepsi, BB X bred by U MacDonald, Lower Cairnglass.
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