The leader from the gimmer class, Alan Clark and family’s CJN2208608, took the championship at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show. She is a daughter of the 15,000gns Procters Chumba Wumba and is out of a dam by the former sire of the year, the 12,000gns Knock Bantastic.
Collecting his second Great Yorkshire championship in as many years and again with a gimmer, Alan’s winner this year was on her second outing, having stood fourth at Lesmahagow and been saved since then for this trip south.
She took the overall championship ahead of the day’s male champion, shearling ram Hexel Four Square from Procters Farm under the stewardship of Jeff and Jennifer Aiken and daughter, Katie, and son, Robbie.
Four Square, a son of 2022 First Season Sire of the Year Rhaeadr Entrepreneur is out of a dam by the noted breeder Procters Chumba Wumba and was purchased at Lanark last year for 32,000gns on a day when sons of his sire sold to a top of 130,000gns.
Judge Alan Wight, Midlock, said the gimmer had been an easy champion, coming through from an exceptional class of dimmers earlier in the day. “She has everything you want in a Texel female. She’s great on her legs, has a tremendous carcass and carries it all with a bit of class and plenty of character.
“Equally the shearling ram is a tremendous tup, with great power and fleshing, but overall the gimmer just had the extra bit of class I was looking for in my champion.”
Taking the reserve female championship under Mr Wight was the leader from the aged ewe class from Gordon Gray, GGH2111142. She’s by Claybury Dunkirk and out of a dam by Midcombe Brigadier and stood third at last month’s Royal Highland Show.
Reserve male honours fell to the winner of the texelplus class, Keith and Andrew Campbell’s KOB2315317 from their Overburns flock. This Haymount Foremost son is out of a Castlecairn ewe by Sportsmans Cannon Ball.
Winning the day’s opening class was Anthony Carter with his aged ram Auldhouseburn Evening Star, a Sportsmans Double Diamond son out of a dam by Sportsmans A Star.
Then in the exhibitor bred shearling rams the winner was Sandy Hunter with one from his Wedderburn flock, HEW2208156. He’s by Teiglum Elgin and out of a Westburnhouse dam by Knock Yardsman.
The open ram lamb class was then won by Gordon Gray with GGH2315153, a Sadlerhead Frank The Tank son out of a Midcombe Brigadier daughter.
Leading the ewe lambs were Keith and Andrew Campbell with KOB2315252, another by Haymount Foremost and this time out of a Hexel dam by Procters Chumba Wumba.
Aged Rams
1- A J Carter’s Auldhouseburn Evening Star
2 – E D Davies’ Milborough Del Boy
3- J L Chapman Jewitt’s Folkton Ernie
4 – J L Chapman Jewitt’s Folkton Dreamer
Homebred shearling ram
1 S Hunter’s HEW2208156
2 Procters Farm’s THF2205533
3 Caroline Orr’s ONH2201132
4 G Gray’s GGH2214443
5 Ian Murray’s MFZ2203093
Open shearling ram
1 – Procters Farm’s Hexel Four Square
2 – Mark Ireland’s Hilltop Falcon
3 – Ian Murray’s MFZ2203092
4 – P Longdin’s LJW2201523
5 – Anthony Carter’s Haddo Freedom
Open ram lambs
1 – G Gray’s GGH2315153
2 – D McKerrow’s DMN2300357
3 – Procters Farm’s PFD2306111
4 – K and A Campbell’s KOB23015315
5 – G L Riby’s RKS2302077
Texelplus ram lambs
1 – K and A Campbell’s KOB2315317
2 – G Gray’s GGH2315093
3 – Procters Farm’s PFD2306158
4 – D McKerrow’s DMN2300375
5 – R Wilson’s WEV2301965
Aged ewes
1 – G Gray’s GGH2111142
2 – Procters Farm’s PFD2104616
3 – D McKerrow’s CFT200057
4 – P Longdin’s LJW2101419
5 – Messrs Peel and Johnson’s BFE1909177
Shearling ewes
1 – J and H Clark’s CJN2208608
2 – A Clark’s CFT2200687
3 – J and H Clark’s CJN2208728
4 – D McKerrow’s DMN2200002
5 – G Gray’s GGH2214246
Ewe lambs
1 – K and A Campbell’s KOB2315252
2 – J Aiken’s AXC2300356
3 – S Hunter’s HEW2309023
4 – G Gray’s GGH2315024
5 – G Gray’s GGH2315046
Pairs
1 – G Gray
2- Procters Farm
3 – Boden and Davies
4 – D McKerrow
5 – Caroline Orr
Group of three
1 – G Gray
2 – K and A Campbell
Male champion
Procters Farm’s Hexel Four Square
Reserve male champion
K and A Campbell’s ram lamb KOB2315317
Female champion
J and H Clark’s shearling ewe CJN2208608
Reserve female champion
G Gray’s aged ewe GGH2111142
Overall champion
J and H Clark’s shearling ewe CJN2208608
Reserve overall champion
Procters Farm’s shearling ram Hexel Four Square