POPES PRINCESS NOOR CROWNED SIMMENTAL CHAMPION AT 2024 GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW!

• Popes Premier takes Male Championship

The April 2022 born in-calf heifer Popes Princess Noor from Jimmy & Vikki Wood, Popes Farm, Preston, Lancashire swept all before her to lift the 2024 Simmental Supreme Championship on day one of the 2024 Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate on Wednesday 10th July.

Supreme Champion Popes Princess Noor

From a small but quality entry of Simmentals, Popes Princess Noor first of all picked up the Female Championship before going head to head with her stablemate and Male Champion on the day, Popes Premier 23, to secure the Championship tap out. Judge for the day was John Barlow of the noted Denizes herd at Ulnes, Nr Leyland, Lancashire.
No stranger to the show ring, Popes Princess Noor last year, amongst a host of titles, won the Simmental Overall Junior Championship at the English National Show (within the Royal Norfolk), and was Junior Female Champion at the Scottish Simmental National Show (held within Dumfries Show).

Judge John Barlow

With a connectivity in breeding, Popes Princess Noor is by the noted Team Celtic and out of Popes Princess Hettie making her a full sister to the herd’s 2022 Great Yorkshire Champion, and English National Show Champion Popes Princess Lumi, and a half sister to the 2023 Great Yorkshire Show Individual Interbreed Champion, and multi title winner, Popes Princess Immie!

Popes Princess Noor is in-calf to the noted AI sire Denizes Hamish.

Reserve Supreme Champion Popes Premier

Taking the Reserve Overall Supreme, and Male Championship, was the January 2023 born bull Popes Premier 23. Sired by Popes Lethal Weapon, Popes Premier 23 was shown through last summer as a calf at foot alongside his multi title winning mum, the aforementioned Popes Princess Immie. Premier’s grand dam is the herd’s famous, and much decorated cow, Popes Princess Cleo. In his own right, Popes Premier 23 won the Simmental Pedigree Calf Championship before moving on to win the National Pedigree Calf Show Interbreed, a first for the Simmental breed, at the English Winter Fair in November 2023.

Overall Champion & Reserve

CLASS 60 Bull born before 1 January 2023
1st Fircovert Nigel, Mr P Gunther

Fircovert Nigel

CLASS 61 Bull born on or after 1 January 2023
1st Popes Premier 23, Messrs JH & VG Wood
2nd Fircovert Peacock, Mr P Gunther
3rd Fircovert Panther, Mr P Gunther
4th Allsaints Phoenix, Mrs S Germany

CLASS 63 Heifer born in 2022
1st Popes Princess Noor, Messrs JH & VG Wood
2nd Williams Fluffys Nellie, Mrs S Germany
3rd Lynfield Precious, Mr G Scrivens
4th Maidenlands Polarine 4 (P), Mr D Saunders

CLASS 64 Heifer born in 2023
1^st Popes Trixies Pearl, Messrs JH & VG Wood
2^nd Clonagh Regal Fortune, Mr C Croft
3^rd Popes Trixies Prudence, Messrs JH & VG Wood
4^th Maidenlands Polarine 4 P, Mr D Saunders
5^th O’so’good Sarah’s Paisley, Nichola Osgood & Robert Tremayne
6^th Maidenlands Polarine 5 P, Mr D Saunders

OVERALL, FEMALE, & JUNIOR CHAMPION
Popes Princess Noor, Messrs JH & VG Wood

RESERVE OVERALL, & MALE CHAMPION
Popes Premier 23, Messrs JH & VG Wood

RESERVE MALE CHAMPION
Fircovert Peacock, Mr P Gunther

RESERVE FEMALE CHAMPION
Popes Trixies Pearl, Messrs JH & VG Wood

CLASS 65 Group of three animals
1^st Messrs JH & VG Wood
2^nd Mr P Gunther

CLASS 66 Pair of animals
1^st Messrs JH & VG Wood
2^nd Mr D Saunders
3^rd Mr P Gunther

Reserve Female Champion, Popes Trixies Pearl