Great Yorkshire Show 2017
Day Two – VIP visit,
supreme champion’s
crowned and plenty more!
Thousands of visitors
flocked to the second day
of the Great Yorkshire
Show which saw a visit
from the Secretary of
State for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs
Michael Gove MP.
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showed off their skills in the sheep, cattle
and pig rings on a day which decided some
top titles and qualifiers.
The British Pig Association Pig of the
Year Qualifier was one of the first to be
judged with top honours going to a Welsh
gilt, Barlings Lucky Girl, entered by Sarah
Ashcroft, of Lincoln.
Supreme Champion Pig was a
Saddleback sow, Nancenoy Dinah, owned
by Caroline Dunstan of Cornwall.
The Supreme Champion sheep
was also crowned this morning
with Messrs K and R Buckle
of Kirkby Stephen taking the
top title with a Beltex ewe.
Reserve went to a North
Country Cheviot gimmer
owned by Miss CL Guy of
Richmond.
In the cattle rings the Supreme
Dairy Champion was awarded to
Yorkshire’s Rob Butterfield with his own
Holstein, Newbirks Jazz. Reserve went to
another Yorkshire competitor, IRG Collins
and Partners of Dewsbury with Churchroyd
Bronte Wildeyes.
The main ring played host to one of the
most popular sections of the show – the
Grand Cattle Parade. The best pairs of
cattle from across the 200 beef and dairy
cattle classes were then judged for the
Blythewood Pairs Awards.
The winner of the Native Beef title
was taken by the Aberdeen Angus
pair, Mr D Rankin’s heifer
Kilmaluag Etta and the Gordon
Brooke Estate’s bull, Linton Gilbertines
President.
Taking the Continental Beef prize was
the Alford family’s British Limousin bull,
Foxhillfarm Lordofthering, and heifer,
Foxhillfarm Mamamia.
Rob Butterfield of High Bentham
repeated his triumph as Supreme Dairy
Champion when his Newbirks Jazz and
Ingelview Goldensun took the dairy title
in the Blythewood Pairs. Rob said it was
great to win the title for the second year
running. Newbirks Jazz was part of last
year’s winning pair.
Also in the main ring was the hugely
popular Atkinson Action Horses which
provide TV stunt horses for Poldark,
Victoria and Peaky Blinders.
It was judging day for the 850 entries
to the cheese and dairy show. Class
categories include milk, butter, hard and
soft cheese and ice cream.
The team of 40 judges were tasked with
finding not only the best in each class but
deciding who would take the Supreme
Champion Cheese and Dairy Product
awards. It was Arla Food’s Taw Valley
Mature Cheddar which was named best
Cheese, and Brymor’s strawberry ice cream
took the top dairy award.
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