History made at Great Yorkshire Show as Dutch Spotted takes sheep supreme
HISTORY was made when a Dutch Spotted sheep claimed the supreme championship at the Great Yorkshire Show, after first being crowned shortwool/lowland champion.
Angela Calvert
The champion was a two-crop ewe which had been imported as a lamb from Holland, from Ali Jackson’s Tiptop flock, Annan, and shown by his fiancée, Hannah Sloan. This was its show ring debut but it will head to the Royal Welsh next.
Judge, Roderick Runciman, Galashiels, said: “Immaterial of breed a champion has to be correct and have breed character and this sheep just oozes character. It also has a great top and head and is good on its legs.”
Standing reserve was the terminal breed champion and Texel champion, a ewe lamb from Proctors Farm, Wray, Lancaster, shown by flock manager, Jeff Aiken.
By 100,000gns Sportsmans Batman out of a ewe by Teiglum Young Gun, it was second at the Royal Highland Show.
Staverton Arnie, a two-year-old Dorset Horn ram from father and son, Richard and Jack Fitton’s Dynamite flock, Bolton, took the reserve shortwool/lowland championship. Bought from breeder, Tim Pratt, at the May Fair at Exeter, it was being shown for the first time.
The reserve terminal breed championship rosette went to the Charollais champion from Russell Gray’s Langside flock, Lanark. This was home-bred one-crop ewe by Oakchurch Ozil, which was also a winner at the Royal Highland Show.
For the second year running the Longwool championship went to Adrian Helm and Pam Morrish, Middlesbrough. This year it was with Tunstall Lola, a home-bred gimmer hogg in wool, which won supreme fleece at Otley Show.
Reserve in this section went to the Leicester Longwool champion, a home-bred gimmer hogg in wool from Gillian Shipley’s Oxgang flock, Driffield, which was started by her father, Alan Aconley, 42 years ago.
Hownam Grange Victoria, a two-crop home-bred North Country Cheviot Park ewe from Jimmy and Willie Thomson, Kelso, claimed the hill breed championship. By Wandylaw Scrumpy Jack, it was reserve female champion at the show last year and reserve inter-breed champion at the Royal Highland this season.
A home-bred Kerry Hill shearling ewe gave Andrew Fisher, Harrogate, his second breed championship in a row before going on to take the reserve hill breed title.
Commercial female champion was the Mule champion, a home-bred gimmer lamb by the home-bred ram, Hewness L1 from Kevin Wilson, Otley.
RESULTS
Inter-breed (R. Runciman, Galashields) Sup. and sup. shortwool/lowland, A. Jackson (Dutch Spotted); res. and sup. terminal breed, Proctors Farm (Texel); res. shortwool/lowland, R. and J. Fitton (Dorset Horn); res. terminal breed, A.R. Gray (Charollais); sup. longwool, A.J. Helm and P. Moorish (Teeswater); res. longwool, G. Shipley (Leicester Longwool); sup. hill breed, W. and J. Thomson (North Country Cheviot Park); res. hill breed, A. Fisher (Kerry Hill).
Any other breed (MV)(J. Broughton, Melton Constable) Sup. and fem., res. and male, res. fem. and res. male, J. Skinner (Millennium Bleu)
Any other down breed (T. Davis, London) Sup. and fem. res. and male, D.J.D. Knowles (Clun Forest); res. fem., J.J. Richardson (Oxford Down); res. male, J.M. Hunter (Clun Forest).
Any other longwool breed (T. Davis) Sup. and male. res. and fem., res. male and res. fem. S.J. Parkes (Cotswold).
Any other primitive breed (T. Davis) Sup. and male and res. and fem., B.J. Pearson (Castle Morrit); res. male, J. Holroyd (Manx Loaghtan); res. fem., L. Arrowsmith (Manx Loaghtan).
Any other hill or heath breed (T. Davis) Sup. and male, J. Holroyd (Hill Radnor); res. and male, S.L. Miles (Badger Face); res. male and res. fem., J.E. Harding (Welsh Hill Speckled Face).
Beltex (S. Wood, Aberdeen) Sup. and male and res. fem., Buckle family; res. and fem., Little and Donaldson; res. male, P.N. and V.J. Noble.
Blackface (G. Famelton, Carlisle) Sup. and fem., P. Turnbull; res. and male, H.W. and G.W. Birkbeck; res. fem., A.J. Murray; res. male, R.J. and J. Raine.
Bleu du Maine (S. Shone, Malpas) Sup. and fem. and male, S. Norman; res. and res. fem., J.W. Stables; res. male, P.H. Tait.
Bluefaced Leicester (M. Ridley, Hexham) Sup. and fem. res. and res. fem., J. Buckle; male and res. male, J. Stott.
Blue Texel (C. Richardson, Lisnaskea) Sup. and fem., C. and L. Beck; res. and male and res. male, K. Watret; res. fem. P. and C. Tippetts.
Border Leicester (J. Brown, Mindrum) Sup. and fem., R. and J. Aiken; res. and res. fem. and res. male, R.N. Howie; male, J. Brown.
British Berrichon (G. Thomas, Swansea) Sup. and fem., L.A. and M.A. Holtom and Son; res. and male and res. fem., Windrush Farming Partners; res. male, R. and L. Bett.
British Charollais (B. Ingram, Inverurie) Sup. and fem., A.R. Gray; res. and res. fem., J.K. Foster; male, D. and J. Norman; res. male, H.W. Sloan.
British Rouge (G. Knox, Co Antrim) Sup. and male, A.J. Carter; res. and fem., res. male and res. Fem., P.H. Tait.
Butchers Lambs (C. Wright, Boston) Sup., A.M. and H. Brown; res., I. and M. Lancaster.
Lamb Carcases (M. Jewitt, Spennymoor) Sup., J. Collier; res., J. Bradley.
Dalesbred (M. Dawson) Sup. and fem., male and res. male, J. Bradley; res. and res. fem., J.M. Wilson and Son.
Derbyshire Gritstone (N.R. Davis, Matlock) Sup. and male, S. and P. Scriven; res. and fem., C.R. Mitchell; res. male and res. fem., C. and J. Kempson.
Dorset Horn/Poll Dorset (W. Carson, Co Antrim) Sup. and male and res. fem., R.D. Fitton; res. and fem., B. Welsh; res. male, B. and G. Beck.
Dutch Spotted (J. Whiteford, Brampton) Sup. and fem., res and male, A. Jackson; res. fem., S. and A. Hiddleston; res. male, A. and P. Parker.
Half bred female cross terminal sire (A. Hewetson, Skipton) Sup., S. and L. Robinson; res., C.D. Timm and family.
Hampshire Down (G. Brand, North Berwick) Sup. and male, L.M. Chasney; res. and fem., D. Middleditch and Son; res. male and res. fem., G. and J. Galbraith.
Hebridean (J. Cuthbert, Kinross) Sup. and fem., V.C.K. Mason; res. and male, N. Fecitt; res. fem., K.E. and C.G. Heeley; res. male, J.R. Mosely.
Herdwick (N. Hardistry, Ennerdale) Sup. and male, res. and fem. and res. fem., I.K. and A.M. Grisedale; res. male, H. Wright.
Jacob (G. Jones, Stockbridge) Sup. and fem., Haworth family; res. and male and res. fem., J.G. Strong; res. male, G. Connor and S. Dalrymple.
Kerry Hill (J. Owens, Leominster) Sup. and fem., A. J. Fisher; res. and male, H.L. Barritt; res. fem., D. and K. Whybrow; res. male, C.G. Anderson.
Leicester Longwool (F. Richardson, Driffield) Sup. and fem., G. Shipley; res. and male and res. male, B.W. and D.J. Glaves; res. fem., R. and A. Lacy.
Lincoln Longwool (D. Alexander, Galston) Sup. and fem., res. and male and res. fem., L.M.S. Fairburn; res. male, K. and R.P. Harding.
Lleyn (G. Smith, Market Rasen) Sup. and fem., R.V. Jones; res. and male, res. fem. and res. male, A.W. Davies.
Lonk (W. Abbott, Anglesey) Sup. and male, C.R. Mitchell; res. and fem., C. and J. Kempson; res. male and res. fem., G.A. Morton.
Masham (M. Berry, Kendal) Sup. W.D. Douthwaite and Partners; res., M. and B. Allen.
Mule (J. Burrow, Kendal) Sup., J.K. Wilson and Son; res., P.J. Elliott.
North Country Cheviot Park (J. Campbell, Thurso) Sup. and fem. and res. fem., W. and J. Thomson; res. and male, K.O. Stones; res. male, A.A. Grant.
Rough Fell (P. Capstick, Kirkby Stephen) Sup. and fem. and res. and res. fem., B. and J. Knowles; male, A.E. Harrison; res. male, W. Moore.
Ryeland (C. Bateman, Brecon) Sup. and male and res. fem., E. and J. Henderson; res. and fem. and res. male, A.J. Robinson.
Coloured Ryeland (A. Howell, Swansea) Sup. and fem. and res. male, A. Burton; res. and male, Fisher and Hoggarth; res. fem., T. and G. Glover.
Shetland (A. Harwood, Horsham) Sup. and male and res. fem., P. Cowan; res. and fem., D.L. Bell; res. male, A.C. Bain.
Suffolk (M. Stuart, Ellon) Sup. and fem., J.J. Tooze; res. and male, R.K. Denby; res. fem., G.I. Richmond; res. male, P.J. Lupton.
Swaledale A. Alderson (Kirkby Stephen) Sup. and male and fem., R.W. Clarkson; res. and res. male, J. Bradley; res. fem., J. Dixon and Sons.
Teeswater (S. Wilson, Barnard Castle) Sup. and fem. and res. and res. fem., A.J. Helm and P. Moorish; male, S.J. Tyson and R.E. Willan.
Texel (I. Prys Ones, Corwen) Sup. and fem., Proctors Farm; res. and res. fem., Clark Farms; male, R. and R. Bradley; res. male, K., A., and R. Campbell.
Wensleydale (S. Holditch, Stowmarket) Sup. and fem. and res male, J.A. and A. Pennell; res. and res. fem. and male, J.A. and F. Elliott.
Whitefaced Woodland (T. Davis) Sup. and male, P. Throp; res. and fem. and res. male, Godschalk Partners; res. fem., A.D. Crampton.
Zwartbles (M. Simpson, Kilmarnock) Sup. and fem. and male, C.M. Anderson; res. and res. fem., P. and S. Addison; res. male, C. and K. Milburn.
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