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Pulham and HighHouse top online horned show Achieving 200 entries forward for the second year running, the National Hereford Virtual Show allowed Hereford cattle registered in the horned section of the herd book to be showcased. The task of judging fell to Aled and Jen Jones of Dendor Herefords, Wales; Anselm Fitzgerald of Grianan Herefords, Republic of Ireland and Erica Haliday of Ben Nevis Angus, Australia, who were all separately asked to place every animal in each class and to make their final selections from the winners to decide the male and female championships, which were also contributed to by a public vote. Taking the male championship and receiving a £150 feed voucher kindly offered by NHC Virtual Show sponsor Manor Farm Feeds was Drumatee Rocket from JR Whitlow and family of HighHouse Herefords, Worcester. Spotted as a calf by the Whitlows as a potential future herd sire, Rocket was purchased at the NIHBA premier show and sale at Dungannon back in February 2020 from breeder John Conlon, County Armagh. Sired by two-time winner of the best stock bull award in the NIHBA herd competition, Cill Cormaic Nevada, and out of Drumatee Blossom 813, it was consistently popular with both with the public and judges. Erica Haliday praised Drumatee Rocket for having ‘natural thickness through the lower part of his hindquarters and being muscled closely to the hock.’ The overall female champion came from the largest class of the competition with 29 entries forward, for cows born between September 2015 and August 2018. It was Clipston Pansy B3, owned by
Drumatee Rocket from JR Whitlow and family PRJ and LR Vincent, Norfolk, and bred by R and R Westaway, Market Harborough, which triumphed with its January 2021born calf Pulham Pansy 28th at-foot. As her choice for female champion, judge Erica Haliday praised the animal. She said: “She is a stunning female who best combines structural correctness and natural thickness with an extra special quality element; mostly this is in her beautiful fine skin which indicates softness, doing ability and carcase quality.” Clipston Pansy B3 is sired by the renowned Irish bull Moyclare Malcolm bred by M Molloy, Offaly and is out of Clipston Pansy K15. As winners of the female championship, the Vincent family received a Moocall calving sensor kindly
sponsored by Moocall. Following a remarkably successful showing of entries from the Dieulacresse herd, yielding top-five placings for eight of their animals across seven classes, the competition finished with both the reserve male and reserve female championships awarded to home-bred animals from Messrs Spooner, Leek. In the male ranking it was Dieulacresse Tic Tac, winner of the January 2020 to August 2020 bull class, which took the reserve male champion title. Erica Haliday described it as a ‘standout bull for quality with a flawless combination of natural thickness and correctness, as well as having balance and sire appeal’. This bull’s pedigree is full of quality
