Gimmers triumph at Great Yorkshire

Garngour gimmer triumphs at Great Yorkshire

Alan Clark and family’s Garngour flock continued its flying form on this summer’s show circuit, collecting another breed championship at the Great Yorkshire Show with gimmer CJN2107552 to follow on from earlier success at the Royal Highland Show.

This daughter of the 15,000gns Procters Chumba Wumba is out of Teiglum-bred dam by former sire of the year, the 12,000gns Knock Bantastic. She had picked up the red ticket in the gimmer class before going on to be tapped out as female and overall champion by judge Richard Currie, Tullagh.

And it was ladies day all round when the second prize gimmer from Keith, Alan and Roy Campbell took the reserve female championship and reserve overall championship.

This was CKC2113649, sired by the 65,000gns Hexel Django and out of a homebred dam by the 12,000gns Teiglum Charmer. This gimmer combines show style with performance, carrying an index in the top 1% of the breed.

Northern Irish breeder Richard Currie took charge of proceedings at Harrogate.

Interbreed pairs win for Ettrick

Two class wins for Garngour

Leading the way in the males on the day was Gordon Gray’s shearling ram winner from the homebred shearling ram class, GGH2111171. Sired by the 10,000gns Douganhill Desperado, he is out of a dam by Usk Vale Albatross and has an index in the top 5% of the breed.

Reserve male honours fell to Procters Farm with their ram lamb, Procters Francisco. He was the winner of the texelplus ram lamb class and is by the world record breaking 350,000gns Sportsmans Double Diamond and out of a dam by the 100,000gns Sportsmans Batman.

Heading up the first class of the day, the aged rams, was Claybury Dunkirk from Gordon Gray, with this 34,000gns purchase being by Strathbogie Cannonball and out of a dam by Scholars Yahoo.

In the open shearling ram class the winner was Ian Murray with Hexel Evolution, a Haymount Crackerjack son out of a dam by the 11,000gns Plasucha All Star.

Then in the open ram lambs the top spot was claimed by David and Clare Gray

with their New View Electrifying son, Tima Firefly from their Tima flock. He’s out of a dam by Clinterty Yuga Khan and goes back to the 350,000gns Double Diamond.

Topping the aged ewes was CKC1910995 from Keith, Alan and Roy Campbell’s Cowal flock. She’s a daughter of the 75,000gns Auldhouseburn Boss and is another out of a dam by Yuga Khan. Alan Clark was then back among the tickets, taking first place in the ewe lambs with CJN2208546. This one is similarly bred to the champion, being by Chumba Wumba and out of a Teiglum dam by Knock Bantastic.

Gordon Gray then took the red tickets in both the pairs and groups classes, with the pair going on to take the interbreed pairs championship title.

Class Results

Aged Rams 1 - G Gray’s Claybury Dunkirk 2 - Messrs Chapman Jewitt’s Folkton Dreamer

Homebred shearling ram 1 - G Gray’s GGH2111171 2 - P C Longdin’s Wellingley Empire 3 - P C Longdin’s Wellingley Edward 4 - C Stoddart’s Penrith E Mail 5 - I F Murray’s MFZ2102902

Open shearling ram 1 - I F Murray’s Hexel Evolution 2 - A J Carter’s Auldhouseburn Evening Star 3 - P C Longdin’s Wellingley Emperors 4 - Messrs Peel and Johnson’s Hoskinshire Electrified 5 - P C Longdin’s Wellingley Evan

Open ram lambs 1 - D and C Gray’s Tima Firefly 2 - D J McKerrow’s Uppermill Fury 3 - P A Kermode’s Orrisdale Floki 4 - G L Riby and Son’s Stonehills Fast and Furious 5 - G Gray’s GGH2214373

texelplus ram lambs 1 - Procters Farm’s Procters Francisco 2 - G Gray’s Ettrick Fairfax 3 - D J McKerrow’s Uppermill Figo 4 - I F Murray’s MFZ2203061 5 - D and C Gray’s Tima Frisky

Aged ewes 1 - K, A and R Campbell’s CKC1910995 2 - Procters Farm’s PFD2003768 3 - P C Longdin’s RBY2000342 4 - J Theyer’s CKP2004726 5 - Messrs Peel and Johnson’s BFE1909177

Shearling ewes 1 - J and H Clark’s CJN2107552 2 - K, A and R Campbell’s CKC2113649 3 - Procters Farm’s PFD2104616 4 - M A Evans’ ENM2102442 5 - G Gray’s GGH2111197 Ewe lambs 1 - J and H Clark’s CJN2208546 2 - G Gray’s GGH2214246 3 - James Theyer’s THE2201017 4 - G L Riby and Sons’ RKS2201946 5 - J & H Clark’s CJN2208550

Pairs 1 - G Gray’s GGH2111171 and GGH2111197 2 - G L Riby and Sons’ RKS2201978 and RKS2201946 3 - Messrs Peel and Johnson’s ROF2100238 and BFE1909177 4 - M R Ireland’s IMH2211932 and IMH2211890

Group of three 1 - G Gray 2 - Messrs Peel and Johnson 3 - M R Ireland

Male champion G Gray’s shearling ram - GGH2111171

Reserve male champion Procters Farm’s ram lamb - Procters Francisco

Female champion J and H Clark’s shearling ewe CJN2107552

Reserve female champion K, A and R Campbell’s shearling ewe CKC2113649

Overall champion J and H Clark’s shearling ewe CJN2107552

Reserve overall champion K, A and R Campbell’s shearling ewe CKC2113649

Champion was Garngour’s gimmer CJN2107552

The Campbell family’s gimmer took reserve female and reserve overall championship honours Leading the male classes was Gordon Gray’s GGH2111171

Reserve male champion was Procters Francisco

First prize open ram lamb was Tima Firefly

Gordon Gray’s Ettrick flock, group took the red ticket

Ewe lamb leader CJN2208546

CKC1910995 led the aged ewes for Cowal Claybury Dunkirk topped the aged rams

Open shearling ram winner was Hexel Evolution

Interbreed pairs champions from Ettrick