Garngour tops Royal Highland

Garngour gimmer shines at Royal Highland

Alan Clark and family’s Garngour flock took the breed championship at the Royal Highland Show under judge Robbie Wilson, Milnbank, with the breed leader being CJN2107503.

Sired by the 15,000gns Procters Chumba Wumba, this gimmer is out of a dam by former sire of the year Knock Bantastic and had previously been breed and interbreed champion at Lesmahagow Show earlier in the season.

She carries an index in the top 5% of the breed and is the same way bred as the 10,000gns Garngour Egor which sold at Lanark last year.

Taking the male championship and reserve overall ticket was two-shear ram Mellor Vale Déjà vu from John Forsyth and Stuart Barclay. This son of the 70,000gns Garngour Craftsman carries an index in the top 5% of the breed and is out of a dam by the 40,000gns Garngour Alabama.

Reserve female champion was the aged ewe leader from Procters Farm, PFD2003768. Sired by the 100,000gns Sportsmans Batman, she is out of a dam by Anglezarke Uno. And reserve male champion came in the form of the leader in the shearling ram class from Douganhill Farms. This was the homebred shearling Douganhill Extra Special, a son of Claybury Dazzler out of a dam by Glenside King II.

Top spot in the open ram lambs was claimed by the Knox family with Haddo Falcon. This lamb is by the 17,000gns Lanark purchase Harestone Eldorado, making him a grandson of the male champion. His dam, meanwhile, is by Hexel Born To Be Wild.

And the Knox family kept up their success when taking first in the texelplus ram lambs too, this time with Haddo Firecracker. Again, by Eldorado, this one is out of a Procters-bred dam by Sportsmans Batman.

The final class of the day, the ewe lambs was won by Robert Bennett, Plasucha, with BFE2212101. This daughter of the 75,000gns Sportsmans Express is out of a dam by homebred sire Plasucha Boss Man and carries an index in the top 5% of the breed.

Champion and reserve both top 5%

of breed for performance

Haddo

top both ram lamb classes

Alan Clark’s gimmer CJN2107503 took top honours

Robert Bennett was top in the ewe lambs with BFE2212101 texelplus ram lamb winner was Haddo Firecracker

Mellor Vale Deja vu took reserve championship honours

Open ram lamb winner was Haddo Falcon Topping the shearling rams was Douganhill Extra Special from Douganhill Farms

Reserve female champion was PFD2003768

Class results

Aged Rams 1 - John Forsyth and Stuart Barclay’s Mellor Vale Deja Vu 2 - William Duthie’s Hexel Dragon’s Den 3 - Gordon Gray’s Claybury Dunkirk Shearling rams 1 - Douganhill Farms’ Douganhill Extra Special 2 - Karen Wight’s Midlock Express 3 - John and Craig Connell’s CLJ2102263 4 - Ian Murray’s Hexel Evolution 5 - T, A and R Laird’s LTC2106111 Ram lambs 1 - W J Knox’s Haddo Falcon 2 - Euan MacTaggart’s Rascarrel Fantastic 3 - John P Forsyth’s Glenway Fly High 4 - John and Craig Connell’s Lauder Frankel 5 - G Gray’s Ettrick Frank the Tank texelplus ram lambs 1 - W J Knox’s Haddo Firecracker 2 - David Gray’s Tima Fivestar 3 - James Theyer’s Clanfield Fast and Furious 4 - Gordon Gray’s Ettrick Flash Gordon 5 - Procters Farm’s Procters Francisco Aged ewes 1 - Procters Farm’s PFD2003768 2 - W J Knox’s KWJ2002083 3 - Allan Campbell’s CNK1901404 4 - Tom and Ian Walling’s TIW2015329 5 - T, A and R Laird’s LYC2005328 Shearling ewes 1 – J and H Clark’s CJN2107503 2 - John P Forsyth’s FPG2101957 3 - John P Forsyth’s PFJ2102689 4 - W J Knox’s KWJ2102250 5 - Allanfauld Limited’s XMM2121426 Ewe lambs 1 - Robert Bennett’s BFE2212101 2 - Douganhill Farms’ GCK2216039 3 - John P Forsyth’s PFJ2202698 4 - Andrew Clark’s CFT2200683 5 - J and H Clark’s CJN2208546 Female champion J and H Clark’s gimmer CJN2107503 Reserve female champion Procters Farm’s aged ewe PFD2003768 Male champion John Forsyth and Stuart Barclay’s aged ram Mellor Vale Deja Vu Reserve male champion Douganhill Farms’ shearling ram Douganhill Extra Special Overall champion J and H Clark’s gimmer CJN2107503 Reserve overall champion John Forsyth and Stuart Barclay’s aged ram Mellor Vale Deja Vu