BCCS September Newsletter 2022

Highland Show - Judge Chris Curry
Morwr reigns supreme at
the Royal Highland Show
After a two-year break, the Royal
Highland Show made its highlyanticipated
return over the course
of Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 June.
Judged by Chris Curry of the Burradon
herd, the event saw a tremendous
showing of Charolais cattle vie for the
Championship in an extraordinarily
close competition.
The star of the show was 6-yearold
MAERDY MORWR, who earned
the prestigious titles of Overall
Interbreed Champion, Overall
Charolais Champion, and Overall
Male Champion. Morwr is a veteran
of the showground, adding these
titles to his expansive collection of
Championships from 2021, which
include Overall Champion & Interbreed
Pairs Champion at the Scottish
Showcase and Supreme Champion &
Supreme Interbreed Champion at the
Great Yorkshire Show. This Maerdy
Dynamite son was bred by D E Evans
of Mold, Flintshire, and was purchased
by exhibitors AJR Farms of Ellon,
Aberdeenshire in 2018.
Standing in reserve to Morwr for the
title of Overall Charolais Champion was
another returning champion – 2-yearold
TOPHILL ROXANNE. Roxanne also
secured the title of Overall Female
Champion, and comprised one half
of the winning Interbreed Pairs
Champions. Roxanne had previously
seen great success in 2021, having
won Female Champion & Reserve
Overall Champion in last year’s Scottish
Showcase, and Junior Champion &
Pairs Champion at the Great Yorkshire
Show. This beautiful Hackleton
Largerlout daughter was exhibited by
T Atkinson of Newland, Cumbria, who
purchased her from breeder A Stott of
Canonbie, Dumfriesshire.
Also in reserve to Morwr, this time
for the Male Championship, was
13-month-old FALLENINCH STORMZY,
bred and exhibited by A B Hornall of
Stirling. Stormzy had also secured the
title of Junior Male Champion earlier
in the event. This promising young lad
was sired by the 70,000gns Barnsford
Ferny, who also earned the Supreme
Championship at the Royal Welsh
Show in 2013. Meanwhile his dam is
Falleninch Orla, a homebred daughter
Overall Interbreed, Overall Charolais and Overall Male champion Maerdy Morwr
of Falleninch Imperator.
In reserve for the Female
Championship was the day’s Junior
Female Champion – 19-month-old
AIRTHMAINS ROSIE from D Russell of
Falkirk, Stirlingshire. Rosie also formed
part of the Reserve Interbreed Groupof-Four
Champion group, alongside
Tophill Roxanne, Balthayock Regal, and
Firhills Polly. This stunning young heifer
was sired by Thrunton Lachlan, and her
dam is Lesliepark Maggie, a daughter
of the Irish-born Mandela Dillon1.
Reserve overall and overall female champion Tophill Roxanne
Standing in reserve to Stormzy for
the Junior Male Championship was
17-month-old DRUMSHANE SCANIA,
who also joined Roxanne in winning the
Interbreed Pairs Championship. This
impressive young bull had travelled
all the way up from Colchester, Essex,
from the herd of breeder & exhibitor D
H Knox. Scania was born to Drumshane
Orchid, a daughter of the French-born
Maerdy Heracles, and he was sired by
the 15,000gns Elgin Oliver.
The final reserve of the day was
16-month-old SILVERMERE SOLERO,
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