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Kelmscott Perpetual Challenge Bowl – Best group of three owned by one exhibitor – IRG Collins & Partners RAS of E -BOCM silcock ltd perpetual silver challenge trophy – Best pair by same sire – Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 63 Melvin Perpetual Challenge Cup – Best Heifer in milk or in calf to have calved – Churchroyd Heather 123 – IRG Collins & Partners Thomas Bates Centenary Challenge Cup – Best animal bred by exhibitor – Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 63 – IRG Collins & Partners Eastern Counties Perpetual Challenge Cup – Best animal sired by a SSUK bull – Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 63 – IRG Collins & Partners Frank Morris Perpetual Trophy – Best Cow or Heifer – Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 63 – IRG Collins & Partners Daniel Jopson Perpetual Challenge Cup – Best Dairy Shorthorn – Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 63 – IRG Collins & Partners Billy Goodman Challenge Cup – Herdsman in charge of Champion – Mr H Collins

Royal Welsh Show | 18th - 21st July 2022 | Judge: Mr C Hayward

Heifer, Maiden, not to exceed 18 months 1st Crugside Class Ruth 2 – s: Churchroyd Pure Class CR Rees & Sons 2nd Crugside Jazz Scarlet – s: Bushmills Jazz CR Rees & Sons

Heifer in calf 1st Crugside Jazz Duchess 3 – s: Bushmills Jazz CR Rees & Sons

Heifer in milk 1st Crugside Jazz Ruth – s: Bushmills Jazz CR Rees & Sons 2nd Earlsgift Butterbur 25 – s: Earlsgift Big Star R Crank & Son

Best Heifer 1st Crugside Jazz Ruth – s: Bushmills Jazz CR Rees & Sons 2nd Crugside Jazz Duchess 3 CR Rees & Sons Cow, in calf any age 1st Crugside Prophet Ruth 2 – s: Llandovery Prides Prophet CR Rees & Sons Cow in milk 2nd-3rd calvers 1st Earlsgift Butterbur 14 – s: Winbrook Brutus R Crank & Son

Cow in milk 4th calf or over 1st Avondale Maude 4 – s: Drisgol Watzon R Crank & Son

For best cow 1st Avondale Maude 4 – s: Drisgol Watzon R Crank & Son 2nd Crugside Prophet Ruth 2 – s: Llandovery Prides Prophet CR Rees & Sons

Group of Three 1st Messrs Crank 2nd Messrs Rees

Champion: Avondale Maude 4 – s: Drisgol Watzon – R Crank & Son

Reserve:

Crugside Jazz Ruth – s: Bushmills Jazz – CR Rees & Sons

It was a real privilege to be asked to judge the first Royal Welsh show to be held since the Covid pandemic put pay to public gatherings and meant the cancellation of all agricultural shows for a couple of years. This was only tempered by a phone call from the RWAS society about a month before the show stating that entries were low and asking if I was still prepared to travel and to judge with diminished classes. The answer of course was yes I was, if the show could justify classes then I had agreed to judge them and the privilege of doing so would not be diminished. I suspect the low entry was a result of the unfortunate effects of TB on at least one long term supporter of the show, coupled with the proximity of the date with the Great Yorkshire and the pull of classes in front of the World Shorthorn Conference Tour in our Bicentennial year. Personally, I have always found that smaller classes can sometimes be harder to place, especially when the animals are so closely balanced. In the maiden heifer class, never the easiest to be asked to sort out, the two entries from Messers Rees were very difficult to place as there was not much between them. I eventually placed the red heifer Crugside Class Ruth 2 first over her red and white stable-mate Crugside Jazz Scarlet. Both animals were well grown and quite correct, but Crugside Class Ruth 2 being slightly older had a little more stature and frame and stood on slightly better legs and feet. Two very nice heifers. There was only one entry in the heifer in calf class and Crugside Jazz Duchess 2 took the red rosette. A nice roan heifer with good spring of rib and capacity she looked like she would have a nice balanced udder when she had developed a bit more. She would appear later as part of Messers Rees group of three animals. Then onto the heifer in milk class. This was the hardest class to judge on the day, as the two entries were like chalk and cheese. Messers Crank presented a recently calved red and white heifer in Earlsgift Butterbur 25 carrying a full udder of milk whereas the entry from Messers Rees was a dark roan heifer, Crugside Jazz Ruth who had been calved since September and was nearly dry. Ruth was a larger framed animal with better body capacity and rump than Earlsgift Butterbur 25, but the Earlsgift Butterbur 25 heifer showed off her nicely balanced udder well and looked full of milking ability. I was in a real quandary as to which heifer should be placed first, eventually I put Crugside Jazz Ruth up over Earlsgift Butterbur 25, really only rump angles deciding the class for me. The best heifer in any class rosette went to Messers Rees with Crugside Jazz Ruth and the reserve to their heifer Crugside Jazz Duchess 2. Onto the cow classes and the in calf class went to Messers Rees with Crugside Prophet Ruth 2 (who I later found out is the dam of Crusgside Jazz Ruth, the best heifer in show) a nice red cow. She looked well in the ring, carrying herself well on good legs and feet and nicely fleshed. The junior cow class was won by Messers Crank with Earlsgift Butterbur 14, a nice red and white young cow with a sound udder, large frame and good legs and feet. The senior cow class was also won by Messers Crank, with Avondale Maude 4. She is a lovely red and white cow with a fantastic udder, well attached to a balanced frame carried on good legs and feet. A real dairy cow with power and style. She really looked well and I knew she would figure highly in the next class, the special rosette for best cow class. Indeed, I had no difficulty in placing her first in the best cow class over the in calf cow Crugside Prophet Ruth 2.

Then the group of three animals class. After a little thought I placed the three animals from Messers Crank (Earlsgift Butterbur 14, Avondale Maude 4 and Earlsgift Butterbur 25) above those from Messers Rees (Crugside Prophet Ruth 2, Crugside Jazz Ruth and Crugside Jazz Duchess 2) as the group was just more balanced and the senior cows in milk looked really well together. That being said I didn’t know at the time that Messers Rees group contained a dam and daughter! The RWAS special rosette for 25000kgs production was presented in the ring to Messers Rees with Crugside Jazz Ruth, but it was not a ‘judged class’ as such as she was the only animal put forward and entered. Then the highlight of any show, the championship. I had no hesitation placing Avondale Maude 4 as my champion. She looked really well and if anything improved as the day went on and she filled that excellent udder. My reserve was Crugside Jazz Ruth, the very nice heifer in milk. Although stale, she was a quality animal and deserved her place. A big thank-you must go to both the Rees Family and the Crank Family for supporting the show under the blazing sky of what turned out to be the hottest day ever recorded in the UK. All the animals looked fantastic and were very well turned out, a credit to their owners and the breed. I really felt sorry for the unfortunate sheep penned up waiting for the shearing classes, they were the only things hotter than the exhibitors and judges in their ties.

Thank-you to all. Chris Hayward

Penrith Show | 16th July 2022 | Judge: Mr C Brough

Maiden Heifer 15mths and over 1st Mossrigg Barrington Iris 16 - s: Bushmills Jazz JM & J Fisher & Daughters 2nd Moorriggs Lacey 3 - s: Oxton Belfast P Armstrong

Maiden Heifer under 8 mths 1st Moorriggs Bessie Browneyes 30 - s: Churchroyd Pure Class P Armstrong 2nd Moorriggs Lacey 3 - s: Oxton Belfast P Armstrong

Maiden heifer 8-15 mths 1st Mossrigg Barrington Duchess - s: Shaunlea Gangster JM & J Fisher & Daughters 2nd Moorriggs Sparkle 28 - s: Winbrook Brutus P Armstrong

Heifer in calf 1st Moorriggs Fleur 9 - s: Winbrook Claridge P Armstrong

Heifer in milk 1st Mossrigg Princess Foggathorpe 11 - s: Cotonhall Ambrose JM & J Fisher & Daughters 2nd Mossrigg Barrington Duchess 15 - s: Bushmills Jazz JM & J Fisher & Daughters Cow in milk 1st Mossrigg Barrington Iris 8 - s: Cotonhall Ambrose JM & J Fisher & Daughters 2nd Moorriggs Fleur 9 - s: Blackwood Park Butternut P Armstrong

Group of 3 JM & J Fisher & Daughters P Armstrong Maiden Heifer P Armstrong P Armstrong Reserve Interbreed Champion: Mossrigg Barrington Iris 8 - s: Cotonhall Ambrose JM & J Fisher & Daughters

Champion: Mossrigg Barrington Iris 8 - s: Cotonhall Ambrose JM & J Fisher & Daughters

Reserve:

Mossrigg Barrington Iris 16 - s: Bushmills Jazz JM & J Fisher & Daughters

Leek & District Show | 30th July 2022 | Judge: David Madeley

Calf born in 2022 1st Burbrook Pure Class Meg 3 - s: Churchroyd Pure Class RW Harper 2nd Cotonhall Bambam Kirklevington - s: Cotonhall Bambam RD Kite Heifers born in 2021 1st Rowanmoor Lilac Lilly - s: Breckney Graham P Jepson 2nd Weaverdale Duchess Ann - s: Churchroyd Pure Class GW & SM Pattinson 3rd Cotonhall Jedi Tulip - s: Glencliffe JP Jedi P Jepson 4th Burbrook Pure Class Meg 2 - s: Churchroyd Pure Class RW Harper Heifer in calf under 3 years 1st Cotonhall Blitz Joyce - s: Cotonhall Blitz GW & SM Pattinson 2nd Rantonall Briar 8 - s: Mancetter Veracious Prince D Winnington 3rd Burbrook Pure Class Pamela - s: Churchroyd Pure Class RW Harper 4th Greatwood Ada 3 - s: Hooton Fair Resolve J French

Dry Cow 1st Cotonhall Jackpot Scarlet - s: Cotonhall Jackpot P Jepson Heifer in milk 1st Cotonhall Dynamic Empress - s: Cotonhall Dynamic RD Kite Cow in milk 1st Cotonhall Duchess Anne - s: Cotonhall Joyland RD Kite 2nd Rantonall Kirklevington 37 - s: Rantonall Jethro D Winnington 3rd Rantonall Wild Primrose 45 - s: Rantonall Dignity D Winnington 4th Amber Lucina 108 - s: Amber Lightening P Jepson Pairs 1st Rantonall Kirklevington 37 | Rantonall Wild Primrose 45 D Winnington 2nd Cotonhall Dynamic Empress | Cotonhall Duchess Anne RD Kite 3rd Rantonall Fairy 48 | Greatwood Strawberry Dairy Maid J French 4th Cotonhall Jackpot Scarlet | Amber Lucina 108 P Jepson

Champion: Cotonhall Dynamic Empress - s: Cotonhall Dymanic RD Kite

Reserve:

Cotonhall Duchess Anne - s: Cotonhall Joyland RD Kite

Judge David Madeley with the Champion and Reserve