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 &...
Vale Royal North Star, a 2022-born bull from Mr VC Bailey's Mixbury Hall herd, won the Simmental Virtual Show Senior Bull Class. This prestigious win was for Class Five, which featured senior bulls born on or before December 31, 2023. Bred by James Arnold, Vale Royal North Star is notable as the son of Vale Royal Annie, who previously secured the Overall Supreme title in the 2023 Virtual Show.
We’re loving this week’s Simmental Virtual Show Class and with it having been the turn of the ‘big boys’ in Class Five – Senior bull born on or before 31/12/2023.
Twenty seven modern senior bulls displaying all the qualities of top Simmental sires in herds around the United Kingdom. Great to see, and thank you to everyone who supported the class.
And so to this week’s winner who is the 2022 born Vale Royal North Star from the Mixbury Hall herd of Mr VC Bailey, Mixbury Hall Farm, Brackley, Northants. Take a bow, and well done Vernon and Jon! Bred by James Arnold, Vale Royal North Star is an Auchorachan Hercules 16 (ET) EX 92 son out of Vale Royal Annie who herself was the Overall Supreme In the 2023 Virtual Show!
Another week, and it’s another fantastic judge’s video! See here Neil McGowan’s class comments as he stands amongst some terrifically quiet young Simmental bulls from within his Incheoch herd at Alyth, Blairgowrie. Thank you for judging Neil. The Class Five Results are as follows:
1st VALE ROYAL NORTH STAR 22
2nd COOSE NEGOTIATOR (PP)
3rd RATHNASHAN MAGNUM
4th HEATHBROW NAPOLEON 22
5th CORSKIE JACKPOT 18
6th HEATHBROW KALSSIK 19 (P)
7th WOLFSTAR JUMANJI 18
8th HEMINGFORD NELSON
Well done to the winners, and well done to all of the exhibitors for putting on a cracking class of ‘big boy’ Simmental bulls.
