Arming family’s quest to Royal Welsh Winter Fair
Anglesey Winter Fair, also won a red ticket as the best beast bought at auction for under £1,400.
Taking the supreme lamb title was Hywel Williams from Carmarthenshire, who added yet more gloss to his growing reputation. Hywel’s champions were a brace of April-born Dutch Texel lambs that had also won the supreme sash at Anglesey Winter Fair a fortnight earlier.
Victory capped a fantastic fatstock season for the Llanddeusant producer, who headed Countryside Live in Harrogate and won reserve supreme at the English Winter Fair, Stafford.
Black Welsh Mountain exhibitors Brian and Anest Roberts shook their
Earlier the Blacks had topped the Welsh and Hill breed sections before reminding the Continentals and Crossbreds that they remain a force to be reckoned with.
In the pig ring, Llanon breeders Andrew and Carwen Davies rekindled old glories by winning the supreme pairs title.
In 2010 they completed a winter fair double, topped both the pairs and the singles, but the intervening years have been relatively fallow.
Andrew, a farm worker who runs a four-sow herd of Large White pigs at Trialmawr, headed a pair of pedigree Welsh entries from Huw and Ela Roberts, Pwllheli. CATTLE SUPREME: Ch - Mouse, Price & Rogers, Glasbury on Wye; R - Ice Babe, Richard Wright, Somerset. STEERS: Ch - Wee Jimmy, Richard Wright, Somerset; R - Dark Shot, S & N Lloyd, Leominister. HEIFERS: Ch - Mouse, Price & Rogers; R - Ice Babe, Richard Wright. BABY BEEF: Ch - Little Mix (hfr), Tecwyn Jones, Llanrwst; R Buckfast (str), Suzie Dunn & Cameron Jackson, Stirling. EXHIBITOR-BRED: Ch - Ice Babe, Richard Wright. PED WELSH BLACK: Ch - Hendre Eirian Erian, Owen Bros, Glan Conwy; R Tynddraenen, E Evans a’i Gwmni, Talybont. LAMBS SUPREME: Ch - Hywel Williams, Llanddeusant (Tex); R - Anest Fflur Roberts, Llangwm (Black WM). NATIVES: Ch - Anest Fflur Roberts (Black WM); R - Daniel Jerman (Poll Dorset). HILL: Anest Fflur Roberts (Black WM); RCarys H Davies, Carmarthen (Chev). WELSH MOUNTAIN: Ch Anest Fflur Roberts, Llangwm; R - H Pritchard & P Jones, Hereford. CROSSBREDS: Ch - Daniel Jerman, Llanidloes; R - Elvet Jones & Kate Hovers, Trecastle. NATIVE HILL BREEDS: Ch - Carys H Davies, Carmarthen; R - IT Davies & Sons, Brecon. CONTINENTALS: Ch - Hywel Williams, Llanddeusant; R - Robin J Slade, Hereford. BUTCHER’S LAMBS: Ch - Michael Owens, Llandysul; R - Dyfan Clwyd Evans, Melin-y-Wig, Corwen. LOWLAND BREEDS: Ch - Daniel Jerman, Llanidloes; R - Wakeham-Dawson & Harmer, Lewes. HORSES SUPREME: Ch - Tigbourne (Sports), D Thorneycroft & H Walsh, Dorset; R - Afan Ragdoll (Sect B), Dennis Price, Llanafan Fawr. SECTION A: Ch Thistledown Athene, Sandy Anderson; R - Llanarth White Tiger, LE & M Ann Bigley. SECTION B: Ch - Afan Ragdoll, Isaac Thomas Dennis Price; R Sarum Rose Leaf, L Rayfield and B & J Joyner. SECTION C: Ch Carless Bobby Dazzler, GO Williams; R - Tyngwndwn Glitter, S & T Jones. SECTION D: Ch Cascob Welsh Doll, Hannah Owens; R - Haighmoor Sparc, Julie Evans. WELSH PART-BRED: Ch - Little Miss Rhino, DW Rees; R - Swynol Tiana, PJ Lewis. SPORT HORSES: Ch - Tigbourne, D Thorneycroft & H Walsh; R Ystwyth Special, Richard & Jean Evans.