The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
Hat-trick of wins for champion
Sutherland Show: Heifer adds overall title to wins at Latheron and Caithness
A 10-month-old commercial heifer named Kiss My . . . made it a hat-trick at the Sutherland Show on Saturday when she lifted the supreme show champion of champions title for the third week in a row.
The home-bred heifer, which hails from J Munro & Son of Invercharron Farm, Ardgay, lifted the same title at the Caithness and Latheron Shows earlier this month.
By the AI British Blue sire Tweeddale Guinness and out of a home-bred Limousin cross cow, she was described by the overall show judge as a “cracking example of what a commercial heifer should look like”.
The judge – Jenny Henderson of the Royal Hotel in Cromarty – added: “She was a worthy winner and stood out as soon as she walked into the ring”.
Beef interbreed judge William Moir of Home Farm, Cairness, Fraserburgh, placed her supreme beef champion earlier in the day.
Mr Moir, 18, who was part of a line-up of younger judges from the next generation, said: “She oozed style and was the sweetest animal in the ring.”
Also vying for the top title were the sheep interbreed, poultry, light-legged horse and native horse champions.
Standing reserve overall show champion was the sheep champion from George Cormack, Wester Dunnet, Thurso.
This Lowground type North Country Cheviot ewe lamb was given the sheep interbreed title earlier in the day by Findlay MacIntyre of Dunalister Estate, Kinloch Rannoch, Pitlochry.
This one, which is by Peng Roes’ The One and out of a home-bred ewe, was described by Mr MacIntrye as a “very good example of sheep stock and an example of exactly how the breed should be”.
Native horse champion was the Shetland champion from the Hools Shetland Pony Stud in Orkney.
Shown by Kelly Peace, the champion was a threeyear-old home-bred filly called Hools Janet. She is by Wells Masterclass and out of Merkisayre Poppy.