Great Yorkshire Show: Limousin claims Supreme Beef championship

More Yorkshire success came for Brockhurst females in the beef ring at the Great Yorkshire Show this year, with the twice-calved Brockhurst Heavenly claiming the interbreed title.

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The Buckinghamshire winner was home-bred and born in September 2012 at Torrington Farm, Chesham. She is by Wilodge Vantastic and her dam was Brockhurst Bolshoi, herself twice a Supreme Champion Winner at Harrogate in past years. 

The December-born three-and-a-half-year-old has already calved twice and shone in the ring with calf at foot, the outfit described by judge John Dykes, West Linton, Peebleshire, as “full of beef – a beautiful mover as well.”

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Shown sparingly in 2015 at the Royal Highland Show, Great Yorkshire Show and Royal Welsh, Heavenly has been “always the bridesmaid but never the bride”, winning several classes but never before managing to shine on interbreed stage.

Next up is the Limousin National Show at Borderway, Carlisle, at the end of July.

Lincoln Red bull gets Reserve

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It was a case of déjà vu of last year’s Harrogate outing for Lincoln Red bull St Fort Rolex, collecting his second interbreed runner-up ticket in as many years.

Shown by Mr CS Page, Oak Tree Farm, Brough, East Yorkshire, Rolex will return home to breeders Mylius A and Partners, Alloa, Clackmanenshire from showground after thriving on a grass-based system serving the Pages’ 30-cow herd after being sold back to the breeders.

By Norton Beau, he is out of the Mylius-bred dam St Fort Hannah and has exchanged hands twice for an undisclosed fee.