Dorepoll 1 Emperor owned by D & E Colledge,
Earlier in the day "Emperor" had taken the Grand Male Championships by beating off strong competition, including the 2010 Royal Highland and Great Yorkshire Shows Inter-bred Champion Romany 1 Captain. "Captain" exhibited and owned by A.E. Nesbitt Farms Ltd went on to take the Reserve Supreme Championship.
Dorepoll 1 Emperor was bred by
The Intermediate Male Champion was Leos Pride 1 Ellis bred and owned by D & B Ellis,
The Grand Female Championship went to another animal owned by D & E Colledge, former Royal Show Champion Hawkesbury 1 Vollie-vont, with the senior cow Greenyards 1 Echo by Greenyards 1 Archie and bred by P & A Allman, Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire taking the Reserve Grand Female Championship.
The Intermediate Female Championship went to Kinglee 1 Vicky bred and owned by Mr Peter Cobley, Stoney Stanton in Leicestershire. Eighteen month old "Vicky" by Dorepoll 1 Nationwide, is out of Costhorpe 1 Vicky 365. In Reserve was Hawkesbury 1 Volante by D & E Colledge and expertly shown by professional showman Mr Steve Edwards. Taking the Reserve Junior Female Championship behind "Dawn" was Rimini 1 Joo Lee Anna bred by Mrs Jackie Cooper,
In Groups section the Best Group of Three by the Same Sire went to the Romany herd sire Baybridge 1 Atlas, this award concluded a very successful show day for the Romany herd, justifying a long trip down from the Scottish Borders.
In the Group of Three including both sexes the Trophy went to A.E. Nesbitt Farms Ltd and finally in the Best Pair of Animals Class, first prize went to Mr Peter Whittaker from Northumberland.
Emperor's older maternal sister was female and reserve overall champion at Irish National Hereford show at Tullamore 2010.
What happened to the captain JL????
I thought it was a female first look I had,not much behind. But it looks like after five hours he must have had a good look!!!
Different judge different day I guess WM, have to say I was a little suprised, but I've not seen Emperor in the flesh, so its hard to comment. Would have been an interesting sight having the two side by side.
The judge likes and breeds big tall cattle not the Captain type which are more commercially viable. A few suprised folk at the Hereford show, but not everybody! The hereford breed has improved so much in the last few years they don't need to rergress to twenty years ago.
The Drover,
The captain was one of the few herefords that have turned the heads of a few continental boys, that bull alone has taken the breed forward 20 years, a bull with an ass!I bet the queue of ladies wanting to romance him is long. Quite frankly the beef industry would take wagon load after wagon load of captains, what a body of beef! Emperors im not so sure about...
Yeah I agree WM, I saw the Captain bull at the Yorkshire and thought he was as good a Hereford bull as i've seen for a while. Like you say - beef!
any news from kelso??? top prices?
Hi diduno,
Top price of £10,000 for a texel from Gray, Scrogtonhead to Arnott(Haymount) and Campbell (Thrunton). Suffolks topped at £4,800 from Thrunton. 4516 tups sold top average £622.56 (2009 av £569.39)
Couldn't leave without comment on above notes about Captain, it was a shame that he was only reserve last week but he's had a tremendous year. Agree with Drover, not that surprised! He has calves on the ground in Denmark, Eire, Germany and Brazil (this month), they all seem happy! His mother calved yesterday morning, third heifer in a row, i'd quite like another bull from her!
many thanks romany hereford. averages seem sound. good to see another 5figure price in the shearling markets...
10k scrogton tup was best in field by far...outstanding ram. scrogton pens were incredibly strong again this year
Jl, when you get a mo Will there be any word on penwern simmie sale on Saturday only heard breed record was smashed and be interested to hear a bit more?
any news from the charolais female sale at stirling? .must say how dissapointing and how biased the farmers weekly team seem to be . had there been a limousin sale at the weekend i fully expect that there would have been full coverage. when the charolais are without the doubt the breed in front with the highest consistent averages in recent times.
Of course, MM, its on a long list of sales from the weekend to catch up with this morning - look's like being after lunch before I hear from the auctioneers I'm afraid.
SM, many thanks for your comment, I'll not get into a debate with you on averages, however, I do refute any allegations of bias you make, I cover sales of all breeds in all species whenever it is appropriate. It may help you to understand things a little better if you appreciate how most coverage published here is generated. Firstly, there is no FW team behind Taking Stock, more than 90% of the coverage is done by me, so there is a limit to how much I can achieve and I had other commitments last week which meant I couldn't travel to Kelso for the tup sales or Stirling for the Charolais sale. Secondly, for a large portion of this coverage I rely on auctioneers submitting reports and keeping me abreast of sales news. On this point there are some very good auctioneers who value what I do and ensure I catalogues before the sales and keep me informed on sale day when I can't be at a sale, thus giving up to the minute reporting when I can't be somewhere. On the other hand there are other auctioneers who neither send catalogues ahead of sales, nor let me have info on sale day. In these instances, such as Saturday's Charolais sale, I can't report the information I don't have, its as simple as that. I will of course endeavour to publish a report just as soon as I have one available.
I have been critical of Farmers Weekly in magazine form as not covering enough livestock shows and sales. Having the Taking Stock blog reporting on shows and sales definitely gives Farmers Weekly a great advantage in Livestock reporting - rather than criticising, there is nothing stopping people sending information to this blog - or by e-mail to FW Livestock - I must admit like many other people over the weekend I wondered when the report for Kelso would be put on Taking Stock - the problem is JL, it could be that you are a victim of your own success, we are all so used to looking at Taking Stock for photos and reports that are not available elsewhere.
RS you may well be right at being a victim of success, if only the pay reflected it and people learnt to ask politely! Hopefully we're now just about up to date with the weekend's sales, expect a backlog of Mule sale reports to appear first thing tomorrow, barring disaster in the meantime of course.
Hmmmm Wee Mannie, body of beef. Big hind ends are all very well in a mince meat focused market but if your looking at carcass balance and ratios of hign value to low value cuts its not a big ass end you need! Length of body, width of top and depth of loin are where the money is, recession or not. Ask a meat plant what carcasses they prefer and its not E's or U's but R's and O's becasue they fit their customers buying specs.
So tell me why do they pay extra for U and E grade cattle we killed 7 last week 1 R grade was 7 pence less per kilo than the rest which were all U grades. Reason is thats what the butchers want good quality cattle.
Sorry to disillusion you but its because of tradition. Business sense would make it the right thing to do but the uproar it would cause puts them off given the lack of trust there is mutually. E graes dont actually attract much of a premium as they are underfinished and the valuable cuts are too big for retailers so they have to look for outlets that are fussy about.
Coming around to another aspect, what is quality? If you want to get good prices for beef produce a meat of good EATING quality that will have customers coming back for more and more. Does the consumer care about meat yield,(EUROP) not one bit. I wouldnt be so proud of that 7p/kg, how much more profit did they make beyond they R's? Most likely none.
sm - YOU having a laugh aren't you. Charo in front think you did a typo their - lims (then angus) are leading the way.
As for taking stock coverage - none of us are paying for this therefore J Long is doing his best with "spies" helping him along as sales which he does not get too. It would maybe be apt then if the charolais people informed and passed on any stuff of interest to him. maybe sm you could suggest a spy to help out at sales!!!
I would like to second hoorah's thoughts, JL provides an excellent service at fantastic value to the readers. If speed of reporting is such an issue maybe one should visit the sales of interest ones self!