The British Simmental Review 2022

Scottish Simmental National Show
SHOWS
Islavale Lullaby, Overall Simmental Supreme & Female Champion, and Interbreed Champion.
ISLAVALE LULLABY ‘ROCKS’
TO SCOTTISH SIMMENTAL
NATIONAL SHOW CHAMPIONSHIP
FOR THE BACKMUIR HERD
• Backmuir achieve the 2022 double of Scottish National Show, and Royal
Highland Show Championships with Islavale Lullaby
• Islavale Lullaby wins the Overall Interbreed at the Black Isle Show
• Denizes Eve’s Beauty 3 rd takes Simmental Overall Reserve
The April 2020 born heifer Islavale Lullaby scooped the Overall
Supreme Championship for Reece and Andrew Simmers,
Backmuir Farm, Keith, Banffshire, at the 2022 Scottish National
Simmental Show, held within the Black Isle Show, on Thursday 4 th
August. For good measure the stylish Islavale Lullaby then went on to
win the day’s Overall Individual Interbreed title.
This latest win at the Scottish Simmental National Show secured
a memorable 2022 double for the Simmers with Islavale Lullaby,
following on from their Simmental Supreme Championship at the
Royal Highland Show in June.
Bought for 8,000gns at the British Simmental Cattle Society’s
inaugural Next Generation Sale of females and weaned calves at
Carlisle in 2021, where she also stood Champion, Islavale Lullaby was
bred by Mr WS Stronach, Berryleys Farm, Grange, Keith. By Shacon
Hannibal 16, she is the first calf out of Islavale Inspire GP 82, an Atlow
Dixon 12 EX91 daughter. Described in June as ‘a new bloodline for
the herd with all the qualities to be a cornerstone female’, Islavale
Lullaby has been served by the Backmuir herd’s 18,000gns stock bull
Wolfstar Jackaroo, who was purchased at Stirling in February 2020.
Commenting on his Champion, the judge for the day John Moore of
the noted Omorga herd, Beragh, Omagh, Northern Ireland, said: “My
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