Focus on youth in new calf show

The Calf Show was preceded by a demonstration on the finer points of handling animals in the show ring with professional showman Steve Edwards and Bob Borwick, a respected and successful breeder. Mr Borwick then went on to judge the Young Handler classes where Scott Coates from Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire, was awarded the Championship – having previously headed a 14-strong ‘15 to 26 years of age’ class – with Charlie Jones, winner of the ‘Under-14’ class, as Reserve.

Mr Clive Davies, from the successful Westwood Herd, travelled from Worcestershire to judge the breed classes and kept the many spectators interested with his excellent commentary.

 The Supreme Championship was awarded to the Female Champion, an outstanding heifer, Blakesley 1 Honeysuckle, owned and bred by P and A M Riley of Towcester. In Reserve stood the Male Champion, I Markham's striking bull, Glenmore 1 Voyager. These awards added to both calves’ successes in the Midlands and East Anglia Hereford Breeders' Herd Competition, where they had been awarded Best Heifer and Best Bull Calf.

The Senior Bull Calf class was won by A R Owen's Church Preen Haka, with Rodbaston Harley, owned and bred by South Staffordshire College, in second. The Intermediate Bull Calf class was won by Glenmore 1 Voyager, who went on to take the Male Championship with his stable-mate Glenmore 1 Judo in second place. Glenmore 1 Voyager was later made Reserve Male

Champion - a double for I Markham of Milton Keynes.

The Junior Bull class was won by Coventry based breeders, D and E Colledge's Hawkesbury 1 Viking, with P Cobley's Kinglee 1 Hero from Leicestershire in second.

T D and W T Livesey from Normanton le Heath, Leicestershire, took first and second in the Senior Heifer Calf class with Normanton 1 Fistulina and Normanton 1 Bisporous 2nd H88, both sired by 2011 Hereford Bull of the Year Normanton 1 Eastern Promise. Fistulina went on to be awarded Reserve Female Champion.

There was another double win in the Intermediate Heifer Calf class where P and A M Riley's Blakesley 1 Honeysuckle and Blakesley 1 Holly were placed first and second. Later in the day Honeysuckle won the Female and then the Supreme Championship. Mara Model 19th, bred and exhibited by R N and M A Borwick of Northampton, won the Junior Female Calf class with P Cobley's Kinglee 1 Bubbles 344 in second place.

The commercial class was won by M J & H M Timmis, who had travelled from Shropshire to attend the event. P Cobley's pair of bulls fought off 13 other entries to win the pairs class.

Results

Class 1

Handlers aged 14 and under on the day of the Show, leading a calf exhibited in Classes 3 to 10

1st – Charlie Jones aged 13

2nd – Alicia Legg aged 11

3rd – Joshua Jack aged 10

Class 2

Handlers aged 15 to 26 on the day of the Show, leading a calf exhibited in Classes 3 to 10

1st – Scott Coates aged 20

2nd – Caroline Morris aged 21

3rd – James Jack aged 18

Champion: Scott Coates

Reserve: Charlie Jones

Class 3

Commercial Heifer or Steer by a registered Hereford sire born on or after 1st September 2010

1st – MJ & HM Timmis

2nd – TD & WT Livesey

3rd – TD & WT Livesey

Class 4

Best Pair of animals born on or after 1st September 2010 owned and bred by the exhibitor

1st – P Cobley

2nd – A & SG Stevenson & Sons

3rd – TD & WT Livesey

Class 5

Bull born between 1st September 2010 and 30th November 2010

1st – Church Preen Haka, AR Owen

2nd – Rodbaston Harley, South Staffs College

3rd – Newtoncroft 1 Dalguise, Newtoncroft Farms

Class 6

Bull born between 1st December 2010 and 28th February 2011

1st – Glenmore 1 Voyager,I Markham

2nd – Glenmore 1 Judo, I Markham

3rd – Shraden 1 Henson, MJ & HM Timmis

Class 7

Bull born on or after 1st March 2011

1st – Hawkesbury 1 Viking,D & E Colledge

2nd – Kinglee 1 Hero, P Cobley

3rd – Kinglee 1 Hercules, P Cobley

Male Champion: Glenmore 1 Voyager

Reserve: Glenmore 1 Judo

Class 8

Heifer born between 1st September 2010 and 30th November 2010

1st – Normanton 1 Fistulina

2nd – Normanton 1 Bisporous 2nd H88

3rd – Shraden 1 Potency H420

Class 9

Heifer born between 1st December 2010 and 28th February 2011

1st -Blakesley 1 Honeysuckle, P & AM Riley

2nd – Blakesley 1 Holly, P & AM Riley

3rd – Glenmore 1 Becky 074, I Markham

Class 10

Heifer born on or after 1st March 2011

1st – Mara Model 19th, RN & MA Borwick

2nd – Kinglee 1 Bubbles 344, P Cobley

3rd – Real 1 Jenny H4, JW & R Johnson

Female Champion: Blakesley 1 Honeysuckle

Reserve: Blakesley 1 Holly

Supreme Champion: Blakesley 1 Honeysuckle

Reserve Supreme: Glenmore 1 Voyager