101 Runner-up in the Interbreed Lamb competition was the winner of the ram lamb competition from Mr Ryan and Miss Mia Price from Staunton-on-Wye, Hereford. Oakchurch Lord of the Rings was a single born December lamb sired by Logie Durno Klassic out of a Banwy ewe, which was purchased at the Saucy Sale in Worcester for780 gns. This tup lamb went of to sell at the Worcester Premier Sale for 2,900 gns.
Three Counties Show 2011 Elmwick Flock back in top spot
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ocal breeder Mrs Jennifer Curtis from Wickhamford near Evesham was back in winning ways with her Charollais shearling ewe, Elmwick Kit Kat at the Three Counties Show. Kit Kat’s sire was Glnycoch JPR and her dam was by Foulrice Denethor. She went on to take the Reserve Interbreed Champion title. Victorious in the Lamb Interbreed competition was D P Jones’s ewe lamb from his Pwll flock in Brecon. She was out of a ewe purchased from
Edward Lloyd Lewis’s Gyffin flock and sired by Parkgate Highlander. The cross has been so succesful that Mr Jones repeated the mating this year using embryo transfer. Mr Jones reports that the ewe is looking well and destined for the show ring again this summer. His flock also supplied the reserve breed champion; a senior ewe. She was bred in the Arjane flock of Arwyn Thomas and purchased as a ewe lamb in 2006. She was sired by Galtres Dominator out of a Foulrice Rival ewe.
Mrs Curtis also picked up three other red tickets the first being with her senior stock ram, Onecote Incredible who was also sired by Parkgate Highlander and goes back to an Elmwick tup on the dam’s side. First in the shearling ram class was Garriston Kilowatt, which Mrs Curtis jointly owns with Mr and Mrs John Girffiths. This tup was purchased in 2010 as a lamb at the Builth Wells sale. The final class of the day was for a group of three lambs all sired by the same ram. Heading the line-up were Cecil and Janet Thomas with two ewe lambs and a ram lamb from their Wolston flock near Coventry. They were all sired by Logie Durno Jeeves a joint purchase at 3,000 gns at the 2010 Worcester Premier sale, with Charles Sercombe’s Dalby flock. www.charollaissheep.com