Royal Highland Show 2015: Sheep results

Interbreed

In the sheep lines it was a Charollais shearling ram that scooped the interbreed trophy for Russell Gray who runs 30 pedigree Charollais ewes at Lanark. This stock tup by Banwy Ninja was bought last year for 550gns from Jeremy Price at Oakchurch Farm, Herefordshire.

Overall sheep champion

Judge Ron Mackenzie from the Black Isle, described his champion as ‘outstanding’. He said: “I liked the Charollais when he was standing and he moved so well. He just looked the part. The reserve was a tight ewe, but the Charollais just had the power, presence and determination.”

In reserve was the two crop, home-bred Blackface ewe from Allan Wight, Biggar. This ewe had a crop of three lambs this year, but is now only nursing two. This is the third Blackface championship the Wight family have won at the Highland Show.

Reserve interbreed sheep champion

This ewe is by the 90,000gns Dalchirla ram with the dam by a homebred sire called Big Al.

Suffolk
Stuart G Mair and Sons, Turriff, with their ewe; Res, WG Troup, Inverurie, with their tup.

North Country Cheviot
W and T Thomson, Roxburghshire, with their shearling ewe; Res, Mr WD Allen, Alnwick, with their two shear tup.

Blackface
John Wight and Son, Biggar, with their ewe with lambs at foot; Res, W Ramsay and Sons with their ewe with lambs at foot.

Lleyn
JA and R Geldard and Sons, Kendal, with their shearling ram; Res, Farmstock Genetics, Selkirk, with their shearling ewe

Commercial sheep
Messrs Jim and Wallace Kennedy, Maybole, with their native cross; Andrew Baillie, Lanark, with his Beltex cross

Border Leicester
James Brown with his shearling tup; Res, David Walker, Girvan, with his shearling ewe

British Berrichon
Frances Barbour with her ewe; Res, Ewan Burgess with his shearling ewe

Jacob
Barbara Webster, Newburgh, with her tup; Res, Paul Murray, Whitehaven, with his in milk ewe.

North Country Cheviots
JM Elliot, Kelso, with their shearling ewe; Res, WT Thomson, Roxburghshire with their tup.

Cheviot
Mr James Common, Lockerbie, with their shearling ewe; Res, Mr James Common, Lockerbie, with their ewe

Texel
Procters Farm, Clitheroe, with their ewe with lambs at foot; Res John M McKerrow, By Bo’Ness, with their shearling tup

Hampshire Down
E, B and SA Jones, Haverfordwest, with their aged ewe; Res Messrs R and J McFarlane, Stirling with their ewe lamb

Swaledale
Messrs Brogden, Cumbria, with their shearling ewe; Res, MR Ewbank, Harrogate, with their shearling ram

Bluefaced Leicester
John Wight and Son, Biggar, with their ewe; Res, Mr S McClymont, with their tup

Charollais
Mr A Gray and Son, Lanark, with their shearling ram; Res, Mr A Gray and Son, Lanark, with their ewe

Hebridean
J and M Cuthbert, Kinross, with their ewe; res, CG and KE Heeley, Westhoughton, with their shearling ram

North of England Mules
RF Wilson, Carlisle, with their ewe; Res, RF Wilson, Carlisle, with their geld mule hogg

British Rouge
Percy Tait, Worcestershire, with his shearling ewe; Res, James Kerr, Moira, with his ram.

Beltex
Messrs K and R Buckle, Cumbria, with their shearling ewe; Res, Richard E Wood and Sons, Biggar, with their ram lamb

Zwartbles
Mr AJ Thorburn, Annan, with his ewe; Res, CH Duffy, Stranraer, with their ram lamb

Scotch Mule
WR Kerr and Son, Maybole, with their ewe lamb; Res, Messrs HJ and G Donald and Paterson with their gimmer

Bleu Du Maine
Percy Tait, Worcestershire, with his shearling ewe; Res, Laine Daff, Uplawmoor, with his ewe

Shetland
Steven, John, Carolyn, Rebecca and Rowena, Currie, with their ram; Res, Mr and Mrs Andre Bain, east Lothian, with their ewe.