Following hard on the heels of a very successful event the previous year in Northern Ireland, it was the turn of Scotland to play host to the 2025 Simmental Young Members weekend, and held over three days in Perthshire from 1st – 3rd August. See here the snapshot...
Lagavaich Rosie wins Simmental Overall Supreme, Female Champion, & Reserve Overall Interbreed Delfur Nifty S1 takes Reserve Supreme Overall, Reserve Female, & Junior Female Coltfield Sambo wins Male Championship Islavale Serbia is Reserve Male Champion Delfur...
Ranfurly Lady Diana 41st wins Overall Supreme Ballinalare Farm Ritz places Reserve Overall Female Hiltonstown Serenity wins Junior Championship Corrick Spartan crowned Male Champion The classy rising five-year-old cow, Ranfurly Lady Diana 41st M14 VG from David &...
We are moving through the classes of this year’s competition and again with a high standard forward from around the country. Thank you to everyone who has had a go and continues to promote the Simmental breed so well.
This week’s winner of Class Five, Senior Bull Born on or Before 31st December 2019 is Grangewood Kingpin 19 from the Mixbury Hall herd of Mr V C Bailey, Brackley, Northamptonshire. Purchased for 8,000gns at Stirling in February 2021, Kingpin was bred by Mr & Mrs AS & YA Leedham, Pickering, North Yorkshire, and has gone on to breed 14 progeny into his new herd so far. Sired by the 19,000gns Stirling Reserve Senior Champion Grangewood Baron 10, this October-2019 born bull was bred out of Grangewood Sahara’s Gold.
The top five places for this class have been awarded by the Judge, Gavin Brown of Springfield Simmentals, Penicuik, Midlothian, as follows:
1st – Grangewood Kingpin 19
2nd – Kilbride Farm Jetstream 18 (P)
3rd – Coose Gambler
4th – Lintmill Jedi 18
5th – Skerrington Iceman 17
