BCCS September Newsletter 2022

Great Yorkshire / National Show - Judge Steve Nesbitt
Olympian Takes the Gold
at Yorkshire
Judge: Steven Nesbitt
The long-awaited National Charolais
Show finally returned to the Great
Yorkshire Show over the course of
Tuesday 12 to Friday 15 July 2022.
The Show formed part of the hugelyanticipated
Charolais World Congress,
with delegates from all over the world
in attendance to view the spectacular
animals on display. It was a remarkably
close competition of Charolais
animals, all expertly judged by Mr
Steven Nesbitt of the Alwent herd in
Darlington, Co. Durham.
Taking the prestigious title of Supreme
Charolais Champion was 4-yearold
SEAWELL OLYMPIAN, bred and
exhibited by P M & S M Donger
of Towcester, Northamptonshire.
Olympian had also secured the title
of Male Champion earlier in the
event. This impressive bull was sired
by Maerdy Jumbuck, and his dam
Seawell Ima goes back to former
Nottinghamshire Interbreed Champion
Maerdy Flambeau.
In reserve to Olympian for both the
Male Championship and the Supreme
Charolais Championship was 6-year-old
MAERDY MORWR, exhibited by AJR
Farms of Ellon, Aberdeenshire. Morwr
has enjoyed great success recently,
having won Supreme Champion at
the Royal Highland Show for the past
2 years, and at 2021’s Great Yorkshire
Show. Morwr was sired by Maerdy
Dynamite, and out of Maerdy Fee – a
daughter of the French bull Victorieux.
The event’s Female Championship was
secured by another familiar name from
recent shows: TOPHILL ROXANNE,
exhibited by T Atkinson of Newland,
Cumbria. Roxanne has previously won
the titles of Female Champion and
Reserve Overall Champion at the Royal
Highland Show two years in a row, as
well as Junior Champion at the Great
Yorkshire Show in 2021. Roxanne
was bred by A Stott of Canonbie,
Dumfriesshire, and was sired by
Hackleton Largerlout. She is out of
Hackleton Hetty, a daughter of the
Irish-born Mulroog Alpine.
Supreme Charolais champion and male champion Seawell Olympian
Standing in reserve for the Female
Championship was Junior Champion &
Junior Female Champion: 20-monthold
HARESTONE ROYALLADY. Royallady
was bred and exhibited by R & N
Barclay of Insch, Aberdeenshire, and
has previously formed one half of
the Pairs Championship at the Royal
Highland Show earlier this Summer.
Royallady is out of Harestone Julie,
a daughter of the renowned Blelack
Digger, and she was sired by the
40,000gns Maerdy Newman.
Taking the titles of Reserve Junior
Champion and Reserve Junior
Female Champion was 17-monthold
CROOKDAKE SUNRISE, bred
and exhibited by D A & S M Miller
of Wigton, Cumbria. This charming
young heifer was sired by Sportsmans
Linesman, a former Reserve Male
Champion at the Great Yorkshire Show
in 2017, and her dam Crookdake Gypsy
goes back to former Perth Junior
Champion Tullygarley Alibaba.
18-month-old DRUMSHANE SCANIA
from D H Knox in Colchester, Essex,
took the title of Junior Male Champion.
Reserve Supreme Charolais champion and male champion Maerdy Morwr
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