The top awards have been handed out in the livestock classes at the Great Yorkshire Show, amid fierce competition.
The Blythewood Dairy Pairs title in the Main Ring went to Messrs DN Lindsay’s Ayrshire junior cow Mid Ascog Patricia 3rd, shown by Adam Lindsay and senior cow Harperfield Irene 53rd, shown by Adam’s uncle William Lindsay, both of Lanark.
Blythwood Dairy Champion. Adam Lindsay with Mid Ascog Patricia 3rd, Asda’s Franesca Boyce and William Lindsay with Harperfield Irene 53rd
There was triumph for a second time in the Dairy Supreme Championship earlier for Ian Collins and Partners, whose Dairy Shorthorn Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 51 took the title for the second time in three years, following a win in 2021. Ian, who farms near Dewsbury, said: “She is an exceptional dairy cow with strength and power. She is not just a pretty face, she is one of the highest yielding cows we have.”
Supreme Dairy Champion at the Great Yorkshire Show. Dairy Shorthorn, Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 51, Handler and owner Ian Collins from Dewsbury
The Supreme Beef Championship was won by a six-year-old British Simmental, Popes Princess Immie shown with her calf and belonging to the Wood family, Vikki and Jimmy Wood, and their son and daughter Hannah and Harry, who exhibited their winner in the ring. Their victory, awarded by judge Gail Ellis from St Ives, Cornwall, continued a rich vein of form for the Preston-based family. Popes Princess Immie was a calf at foot when her mother Popes Princess Cleo won the Show’s supreme beef title in 2017.
Supreme Beef Champion at the Great Yorkshire Show British Simmental Popes Princess Immie and bull calf at foot owned by the Wood family from Preston, Lancs
Vikki said: “I’m blown away. It just means everything. It’s the culmination of 12 months of hard work and it makes it all worth it. In Lancashire, we don’t have our own Royal show so this is our favourite. We’ve been coming for more than 20 years.”
In the sheep rings, both MV and non-MV sheep competed for their own Supreme titles, before going head-to-head in the Overall Supreme Championship, won by a Suffolk shown by Tom Bowden of Stockport, top from a record number of 3,312 entries in the sheep classes.
Overall Sheep Supreme Champion. Tom and 6 year old Celia Boden from Mellor Hall Farm, Stockport with their Sportsman’s Flock, Suffolk Sheep
Reserve went to Hannah Jackson of Dumfries with a Dutch Spotted.
Judge Nigel Hamill said: "To me we are looking at the best in the UK. The Suffolk has tremendous power and precision. With this sheep everything was in beautiful proportion.”
Commercial Female Champion Graeme Jackson from Mount Pleasant Farm, High Bentham with second sale gimmer lamb, North of England mule
Non MV Supreme Champion. Jack Webster from Derbyshire with his Ram Shearling or Over, North Country Cheviot sheep
The grand cattle parade at the 2023 Great Yorkshire Show
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