A baby with a bright future stole the show on Craven Champions Day, the annual show and sale of commercial store cattle with future show potential at Skipton Auction Mart.
The six-month-old home-bred Limousin-cross heifer from Dalesman Chris Akrigg, of Manor Farm, Cray, was first chosen as champion in the halter-led classes before going on to take the overall supreme championship in the hands of Mr Akrigg’s son Tom.
By the renowned Irish Limousin sire Rocky, out of a Limousin-cross dam, the victor went on to impress in the ring when sold for the show-topping price of £1680 to Steven Swales, of York.
Judge Kevin Ludgate, a commercial cattle and sheep breeder from, Tebworth, Bedfordshire, said the title winner stood out in a high-quality show as “a lovely, kind animal with good potential for the forthcoming show season.”
The reserve championship fell to a March, 2007, Belgian Blue-cross heifer shown by Jonathan Townley, of E&M Townley, Nutta Farm, Clapham. By the late Belgian Blue sire Ridge Dean Vespa, the home-bred runner-up, out of a pure-bred Blonde d’Aquitane cow, sold for £950 to RF Whitfield, a buyer from Cheshire.
