The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Fife Show’ s welcome return
Flags fluttered, white coats were back in the show ring, and crowds piled through the turnstiles as Cupar finally welcomed Fife Show back to celebrate its bicentenary.
The show’s enforced twoyear absence and this year’s long traffic queues were soon forgotten as the sun shone on Fife Agricultural Society’s parade to mark 200 years of farming in the kingdom, and some of the country’s best livestock were judged in front of eager crowds.
The best of the show’s silverware was presented to the overall show champion, a two-year-old Charolais heifer from Brailes Livestock – Rachel Wylie and Richard Hassell, who live in the Cotswolds.
Their heifer, Burradon Raquel by Clenagh Lyle, was brought out by the Rettie team at Methven who house Brailes’ 20-strong herd of pedigree Charolais and Aberdeenangus cattle.
Also in the final show line-up was the supreme sheep champion, a Texel gimmer by the 65,000gn sire Hexel Django, shown by Keith, Allan and Roy Campbell of Drimsynie, Lochgoilhead, and Wilson Peters’ commercial beef champion, Ava Butt, which took the reserve beef interbreed rosette.
The interbreed dairy champion was the Ayrshire cow Cuthill Towers Addiction Peony, from the Lawrie family at Cuthill Towers, Kinross, and representing the best of the in-hand horses was the Mountain and Moorland champion from Lorna Shaw, Hatton Farm, Lundin Links, Leven.
Her stallion, Islyn Mavrick, was bred in Wales and is by Thistledown Iceman.
In reserve sheep interbreed place was the Suffolk champion from Stewart Lathangie, a homebred gimmer from the Pyeston flock at Glenrothes by Pyeston Fury and out of a ewe by Cavanagrove Catalyst.
Reserve beef interbreed was the 16-month-old British Blue bull Kinnesswood Rizzle-kicks from Craig Drysdale, Kinnesswood Farm, Kinross.