After a prolonged and Covid-19 enforced absence Texels returned to the show ring this week, with the staging of the Royal Highland Showcase at Ingliston.
With judging in the capable hands of Andrew Johnstone of the Bogend flock, a high quality if limited turnout of sheep came under his careful consideration.
Catching the judge’s eye on the day was the winner of the gimmer class from Robbie Wilson’s Milnbank flock, Turriff, with this being LYM2003913, a daughter of the 15,000gns Knock Yardsman out of a dam by Strathbogie Yes Sir, with her maternal grand dam having been champion at the Highland in 2017. She went on to stand reserve interbreed champion in the MV Section of the event.
Following through as second prize gimmer, reserve female champion and reserve overall champion was J and H Clark’s CJN2006926. This Garngour gimmer is a Procters Chumba Wumba daughter out of a dam by the 17,000gns Silvermere Baltic.
In the males the championship fell to Gordon Gray’s ram lamb from the Ettrick flock. This was GGH2111300, a Hope Valley Dazzler son out of a dam by the privately purchased Midcombe Brigadier.
Reserve male champion was the winner of the aged ram class from the Ingram family, IGM1927579. He’s full of homebred breeding, being sired by Logie Durno Braveheart and out of a dam by Granite Untouchable.
In the shearling tups it was another win for Gordon Gray with homebred tup GGH2010045, a son of the homebred Ettrick Cockney Rebel out of a dam by the 60,000gns Clinterty Yuga Khan.
And in the Texelplus ram lamb class the winner was another from Ettrick, GGH2111064. He’s by Claybury Dunkirk, a 34,000gns purchase at Lanark last year, and out of a dam by the privately purchased Midcombe Brigadier.
It was another win for Gordon Gray in the aged ewes, with DNS1700326 taking top spot here for the Ettrick consignment. This Woodhow-bred daughter of Sportsmans Tremendous II is out of a Deneside dam by Clinterty USA.
The final class of the day, the ewe lambs was won by young breeders Charlotte and James Nicholson, Knockem, with their lamb NIC2117010. She’s by the homebred Knockem Dennis the Menace and out of a Halbeath dam by Midlock Yorkie.
Class Results
Aged Ram
1 – William and Carole Ingram – IGM1927579
2 – James Warnock – Douganhill Chieftain
3 – Bruce and Alistair McKerrow – Grougfoot Claudio
Shearling Rams
1 – Gordon Gray – GGH2010045
2 – T A and R Laird –Waen Deja Vu
3 – Anthony Carter- Auldhouseburn Dynamo
4 – Robert Wilson – LYM2003870
5 – A and T Greenhill – Murroes Duncan
Open Ram Lambs
1 – Gordon Gray – GGH2111300
2 – Charlotte and James Nicolson – NIC2117020
3 – Andrew J Clark – CFT2100351
4 – K, A & R Campbell – CKC2113582
5 – A Macgregor – XMM2121419
Texelplus Ram Lambs
1 – Gordon Gray – GGH2111064
2 – D J McKerrow – DMN2100349
3 – T, A and R Laird – LTC2106066
4 – K, A and R Campbell – CKC2113522
5 – Gordon Gray – GGH2111082
Aged Ewes
1 – Gordon Gray – DNS1700326
2 – T, A and R Laird – LTC1703843
Shearling Ewes
1 – Robert Wilson – LYM2003913
2 – J and H Clark – CJN2006926
3 – Craig Douglas – WEX2000022
4 – Tom and Ian Walling – TIW2015329
5 – David Gray – GCT2010218
Ewe Lambs
1 – Charlotte & James Nicolson – NIC2117010
2 – Mr A MacGregor – XMM2121417
3 – Andrew J Clark – CFT2100335
4 – K, A & R Campbell – CKC2113649
5 – Donald MacPherson – MZH2100746
Overall champion – Robert Wilson’s gimmer LYM2003913
Reserve overall champion – J and H Clark’s gimmer – CJN2006926
Male champion – Gordon Gray’s ram lamb GGH2111300
Reserve male champion – William and Carole Ingram’s aged ram – IGM1927579
Female champion – Robert Wilson’s gimmer J and H Clark’s gimmer – LYM2003913
Reserve female champion – J and H Clark’s gimmer – CJN2006926
