Charolais is crowned champion of champions at Turriff Show
Turriff Show crowned its champion of champions, with this year's top honours going to a three-year-old Charolais cow from AJR Farms of Ellon.
Having already claimed her class win earlier in the day in the breed category, three-year-old cow Newlogie Royal Eclipse paraded with her September-born heifer calf went on to take the breed title and joined the line-up for the interbreed championship.
The cow is a saved embryo, recovered by Paragon Vets of Carlise by Newlogie Noble out of foundation female, Balmaud Eclispe, which stood champion of champions at Turriff Show in 2014, and champion at the Royal Highland Show that same year.
Royal Eclipse was shown with her heifer calf Newlogie Total Eclipse.
The cow and calf duo also stood reserve breed champion at this year’s Royal Highland and first at the Great Yorkshire Show.
A delay of nearly an hour due to hold-ups in the judging of the cattle interbreed title finally saw her tapped out by renowned Blackface breeder, Mary McCall Smith, from Connachan, Crieff who commented: "She was worth waiting for and has real star quality.
"Every animal in the class has its own as they wouldn't be champions, but she was just so special and I couldn’t go past her."
The reserve champion of champion title was presented to the sheep champion, a Texel tup lamb from Jim Innes’ Strathbogie flock at Dunscroft, Huntly.
Also joining the line up for judging were In-hand championship winnerHighland pony stallion Ben Macdui of Strathavon owned by John Reid who is based at Hillside of Foudland Colpy near Insch, ridden championship winner from the working hunters, horses and ponies section gelding Meiklekims Dizzee Rascal owned by Tessa Hourston from St Cyrus and ridden by her daughter Sophie and the Clydesdale champion a homebred two-year-old filly called Barnslady Joanne by James Ingram, from Banchory.
