This year’s Texel People’s Champion vote has been won by the breed champion from the Royal Highland Show, Hexel Four Square exhibited by Procters Farm.
Four Square, bred by Donald and Sarah MacPherson and purchased at Lanark for 32,000gns, is by 2022 First Season Sire of the Year Rhaeadr Entrepreneur is out of a dam by the noted breeder Procters Chumba Wumba.
Having also been reserve champion at the Great Yorkshire Show, he took the vote by a considerable margin, clinching 33% of the votes cast, with second going to Alan Clark and family’s gimmer from the Great Yorkshire Show with 26% of the vote.
In third spot with 19% of the vote was Martin and Cyril Millar’s aged ewe from Balmoral, while fourth went to James and Ellie Amphlett’s gimmer from The Royal Three Counties Show with 17% of the vote.
Fifth spot was taken by the Ingram family’s shearling ram, Douganhill Extra Special II, champion at the Royal Welsh Show.