‘IMPRESSIVE’ DENIZES TEAM TAKE THE TOP HONOURS AT BORDERWAY’S SIMMENTAL YOUNGSTOCK SHOW

• Denizes Phantom wins Senior Champion and Overall Supreme
• Reserve Overall Supreme is Delfur Phantom
• Denizes Herd wins Junior & senior Championship
• Springfield win Simmental Pairs

It was an ‘Impressive’ day for the Denizes herd of MA Barlow & Sons, Four Oaks, Ulnes, Nr Leyland, Lancashire who took a host of Championship honours at the Simmental Youngstock Show hosted by the North West Simmental Club and British Simmental Cattle Society, and held within the Borderway Agri Expo event at Carlisle on Friday 1^st November.

In front of the judge for the day, Paul McDonald of the noted Coolcran herd, Tempo, Co Fermanagh, N Ireland, the 80 cow Denizes herd won both the Senior and Junior Championship before securing the Overall Supreme Championship.  The sire of the Champion and both the section winners was the herd’s stock bull, and AI sire, Saltire Impressive whose progeny have sold up to 26,000gns to date.

Overall & Senior Champion Denizes Phantom

Having come through the third class of the day, and moving on to secure the Senior Championship, the day’s Overall Supreme came in the shape of the October 2023 born Denizes Phantom.  Sired by Impressive this young bull, with a breed top 1% Maternal (Milk) figure of +13, is out of Denizes Trixi Belle 8.  With a little track record behind him, Denizes Phantom, who will now be aimed at the February 2025 Stirling Sale, was a first prize winner in the summer at the Simmental English National Show held within the Royal Lancashire Show.

Commenting on his Supreme Champion, the judge Paul McDonald said:  “This bull just immediately caught my eye when he came into his class.  He’s stylish with a super head, is very correct, and walked extremely well.  He has a bit of power to him, is a clean bull with good lines, and is very good over his plates.  In my eyes a very worthy Champion and with every prospect to go on to be a breeder’s bull.”

Judge Paul McDonald

It was quite a day for the Denizes herd team of seven entries and amidst some strong competition from a quality entry of 60 catalogued Simmentals from eighteen breeders situated around the UK.  A combination of prize winning and breeding the herd highlights included: Overall Supreme Champion; Senior Champion; Junior Champion; From their team of seven entries, four red tickets were secured; A further class was won by a Denizes bred animal, and two further first prizes were by Denizes sired animals.  Quite a day, and with a connectivity in breeding five half sisters of the day’s Champion will be heading to the Simmental Next Generation IV Sale of Females also at Borderway, on Friday 6^th December.

Speaking afterwards John Barlow said:  “It’s been as good a day as we could ever have hoped for.  This is the third time we’ve won the Overall Supreme at the Simmental Youngstock Show but the first time we’ve won both the Junior & Senior Championships on the same day.  The Simmental Youngstock show just keeps going from strength to strength with the quality and number of entries, a real credit to the exhibitors, and its proving to be a terrific promotional platform for the breed and for forward Simmental sales.”

Reserve Senior & Reserve Overall Champion Delfur Phantom

Following on from their Championship winning Simmental Youngstock debut last year, Delfur Farms, Rothes, Aberlour were back in the prizes when winning the Overall Supreme Reserve and Reserve Senior Championship with the winner of the first class of the day Delfur Phantom.  April 2023 born, this bull is by the 10,000gns Innerwick Ivor 17, a Curaheen Gold Digger son, and is out of Delfur Hetty, an Islavale Cassius daughter.  A strong pedigree, Innerwick Ivor 17 is also the sire of Delfur Weigela M1 who was the breed’s Reserve Senior Female Champion at last year’s Stars of the Future Calf Show in Stirling, whilst Islavale Cassius is described as being a ‘great female breeder in the herd’.  Of the Overall Reserve, the judge Paul McDonald said:  “Again, this was another very modern Simmental bull.  With size and power he had plenty of length, a good top, a great end and walked out really well.”

Junior Champion Denizes Rolls Royce

The Junior Champion was the winner of class four for bulls born on or between 1^st January 2024 and 15^th March 2024, and in the shape of Denizes Rolls Royce and from the Barlow team.    Also by Saltire Impressive this January 2024 born calf is out of Denizes Fancy Therese 9^th, a Bosahan Dynamo daughter.  Again with a view to the forward sales, Denizes Rolls Royce is being aimed at the Carlisle Sale in May next year, whilst a sisters daughter will be another available at the aforementioned Next Generation Sale in December.

Reserve Junior Champion Grangewood Robert The Bruce

A worthwhile trip over from North Yorkshire saw Mr & Mrs AS & YA Leedham, Rowan Farm, Pickering win the Reserve Junior Championship with their stylish young prospect Grangewood Robert The Bruce.  This February 2024 born calf is by the herd’s noted stock bull Ranfurly Impeccable 14 17 (ET) EX94, and is out of the homebred Grangewood Gretal’s Lyla VG87, a Grangewood Glenlivet daughter.  Plans from here are to show Grangewood Robert The Bruce through next summer before entering him for the October Simmental Sale at Stirling.  Regular exhibitors, the Reserve Junior Championship matched Grangewood Polly’s Karina with whom the 35-cow Grangewood herd picked up the Reserve Junior Female title with at the corresponding Simmental Calf Show in 2019.  Robert the Bruces’s sire, the 8500gns Ranfurly Impeccable, is a previous breed Champion at the Royal Ulster Balmoral Show, and his progeny have met with considerable success at both sales and summer shows.  In May this year an Impeccable son, Grangewood New Hope, was the 7200gns top price at Carlisle’s Simmental May Sale.

Pairs Springfield Perry & Pelle

The Simmental Youngstock Show has been a happy hunting ground for Gavin Brown, Springfield Farm, Penicuik having won an Overall Supreme; Reserve Supreme & Reserve Junior Championship; Overall Senior Championship and Overall Reserve in the last two years.  Another title was secured this year when Springfield Perry and Springfield Pelle combined to win the Pairs Championship.  These bulls, both sired by the herd’s noted sire Islavale Jabba, had stood second and third in their class respectively to the Overall Reserve Supreme.  Both May 2023 born Springfield Perry is out of Springfield Izzy, whilst Springfield Pelle is out of Springfield Hils.  First time exhibitors at the Simmental Youngstock Show was D&R Holdings, Low Bowhill Farm, Newmilns, Ayrshire and who took the Reserve in the Pairs Championship with their heifers Bowhill Poppy, and Bowhill Petal, both Pistyll Kingman daughters.

Junior Young Handler Jim Goldie

Senior Young Handler Owen Airey

A big mention also to two terrific Young Handlers classes that saw first prizes for both Jim Goldie Jnr, Newbie Mains Farm, Annan, Dumfries, and also for Owen Airey, Little Urswick, Ulverston.

Other class winners on the day came from the Crakeside herd of Nick Edmonson; the Braegarrie herd of DL & S Currie; the Urswick herd of Owen Airey; and the Newbiemains herd of Jim & Patricia Goldie.

There was a great atmosphere in the Simmental lines and around what was a large ringside audience.  A huge thank you is extended to all of the breeders for again supporting this event in such great numbers and for putting on another terrific Simmental show case.

Overall Champion presentation Denizes Phantom 23

Senior Champions Denizes Phantom & Delfur Phantom

Junior Championship presentation Denizes Rolls Royce & Grangewood Robert The Bruce

Youngstock Show, Borderway Agri Expo, H&H, Carlisle
Friday 1^st November 2024
Judge Paul McDonald, Coolcran, Tempo, Co Fermanagh

Results

 Class 1 – Bull Born On Or Between 01.04.23 And 30.06.23
1 – Lot 802: Delfur Farms DELFUR PHANTOM s. Innerwick Phantom
2 – Lot 804: Gavin Brown SPRINGFIELD PERRY s. Islavale Jabba
3 – Lot 803: Gavin Brown SPRINFIELD PELLE s. Islavale Jabba
4 – Lot 805: D, L & S Currie BRAEGARRIE PANTHER s. Overhill House Link
5 – Lot 807: D & R Holdings BOWHILL PEAT s. Pistyll Kingsman

Class 2 – Bull Born On Or Between 01.07.23 And 30.09.23
1 – Lot 808: Barlow Brothers DENIZES PASSITO s. Denizes Hamish
2 – Lot 814: Andrew Leedham GRANGEWOOD PHENOMENAL s. Ranfurly Impeccable
3 – Lot 810: Goldie Family NEWBIEMAINS PRICELESS s. Auchorachan Hercules
4 – Lot 812: Andrew Leedham GRANGEWOOD PLATINUM s. Ranfurly Impeccable
5 – Lot 809: Gavin Brown SPRINGFIELD PENTAGON s. Islavale Jabba

Class 3: Bull Born On Or Between 01.10.23 And 31.12.23
1 – Lot 815: Barlow Brothers DENIZES PHANTOM s. Saltire Impressive
2 – Lot 817: Delfur Farms DELFUR POCKET ROCKET s. Islavale Magnum

Class 4: Bull Born On Or Between 01.01.24 And 15.03.24
1 – Lot 818: Barlow Brothers DENIZES ROLLS ROYCE s. Saltire Impressive
2 – Lot 822: Andrew Leedham GRANGEWOOD ROBERT THE BRUCE s. Ranfurly Impeccable
3 – Lot 821: T & J Hassall FISHPOOL ROCKY s. Denizes Hamish
4 – Lot 820: T & J Hassall FISHPOOL RAMBO s. Newbiemains Kalypso
5 – Lot 823: Dean Saunders MAIDENLANDS ROLO s. Wolfstar Just Do It

Class 5: Bull Born On Or After 16.03.24
1 – Lot 826: Nick Edmondson CRAKESIDE RAYMOND KUTZ s. Denize Memphis

Class 6: Heifer Born On Or Between 01.04.23 And 30.06.23
1- Lot 828: D, L & S Currie BRAEGARRIE PALOMA s. Overhill House Link
2 – Lot 827: D & R Holdings BOWHILL POPPY s. Pistyll Kingsman
3 – Lot 832: Barlow Brothers DENIZES MATILDA 15^TH s. Denizes Monty
4 – Lot 831: Barlow Brothers DENIZES EUNICE 5^TH s. Saltire Impressive
5 – Lot 829: D, L & S Currie BRAEGARRIE PRUNELLA s. Overhill House Link

Class 6 Winner Braegarrie Paloma

Class 7: Heifer Born On Or Between 01.07.23 And 30.09.23
1 – Lot 836: Owen Airey DENZIES ROSIE 5 s. Grangewood Baron
2 – Lot 838: Barlow Brothers DENIZES WILDE 19 s. Saltire Impressive
3 – Lot 837: D & R Holdings BOWHILL PETAL s. Pistyll Kingsman
4 – Lot 834: Frank Gwynne CASTLEWIGG GIBBLE J-LO s.Chestermann Gibble
5 – Lot 841: Frank Gwynne CASTLEWIGG EXPLORER GIRLIE 3 s. Clonagh Nuclear Explorer

Class 7 winner Denizes Rosie 5

Class 8: Heifer Born On Or Between 01.10.23 And 31.12.23
1 – Lot 845: Goldie Family NEWBIEMAINS PENNY s. Auchorachan Hercules
2 – Lot 844: Goldie Family NEWBIEMAINS PIPPA s. Auchorachan Hercules
3 – Lot 848: Goldie Family NEWBIEMAINS PHILMSTAR s. Auchorachan Hercules

Class 9: Heifer Born On Or Between 01.01.24 And 15.03.24
1 – Lot 856: Barlow Brothers DENIZES KIM 12^TH s. Auroch Ace
2 – Lot 845: T & J Hassall FISHPOOL ROSE s. Newbiemains Kalypso
3 – Lot 853: Ron Loftus CLEARWATER RAUNCHY HOT PANTS s. Harley
4 – Lot 857: T & J Hassall FISHPOOL RUBY s. Newbiemains Kalypso
5 – Lot 858: Ron Loftus CLEARWATER RUSTY NAIL s. Grinalta’s Excel 8N

Class 10: Heifer Born On Or After 16.03.24
1 – Lot 860: Nick Edmondson CRAKESIDE RITA KUTZ s. Denizes Memphis
2 – Lot 861: Andrew Gibbon MARHALL REBEL s. Newbiemains Kalypso

Class 14: Pairs, Any Sex, From One Exhibitor, Shown In Previous Class
1             Gavin Brown
2             D & R Holdings
3             Barlow Brothers

Class 15: Young Handlers Aged Between 10 And 15 Years
1             Jim Goldie
2             William Loftus
3             Chloe Fitton

Class 16: Young Handlers Aged Between 16 And 28 Years
1             Owen Airey
2             Thomas Fitton

Overall & Senior Champion
Barlow Brothers              Denizes Phantom

Reserve Overall & Reserve Senior Champion
Delfur Farms     Delfur Phantom

Junior Champion
Barlow Brothers              Denizes Rolls Royce

Reserve Junior Champion
Andrew Leedham           Grangewood Robert The Bruce