The British Simmental Review 2022

SHOWS
Borderway Calf Show
A ‘NOBLE WYNN’ FOR
NEWBIEMAINS
AT THE BORDERWAY CALF SHOW
• Newbiemains win Junior and Senior Championships, plus
the Overall Supreme
• Springfield Niagra lifts Reserve Supreme
The British Simmental Cattle Society and North West Simmental
Club annual calf show took place within Harrison &
Hetherington’s Borderway Agri Expo at Carlisle on Friday 28
October. Featuring 14 classes including a young handlers section,
Simmental breeders travelled from throughout Scotland and the
North of England to show off their Simmental young stock.
The judge for the day was Varrie Loggie, who had travelled from
Strathaven, Lanarkshire for the event. Having grown up with
Simmental cattle, Varrie now spends her evenings and weekends
helping her mum and dad Jim and Elizabeth Dyet, whilst working in
graphic design during the week. The family have 90 head of cattle,
including 60 pedigree Simmentals in the noted Merkland herd, as
well as 700 sheep on their 600 acre holding.
After working through the classes and section winners, Varrie’s
pick for the Supreme Champion was the young bull Newbiemains
Noble Wynn, bred and exhibited by Jim and Patricia Goldie,
Annan, Dumfrieshire, and who had been tapped out as the Junior
Champion just moments before. “This is a young bull with lots of
breed character, full of length and with plenty of shape. He’s got
tremendous potential and I look forward to seeing how he gets on in
the future” Varrie said. At only eight months old, Newbiemains Noble
Wynn is the first son to be shown by the 9,000gns Auchorachan
Kennedy, who was purchased by the Goldie’s at Stirling in February
last year. His dam is the homebred Newbiemains Kannwynn,
bred from one of the herds top female lines. Her grandmother
Newbiemains Eclypse was a Royal Highland Show and Great
Yorkshire Show champion. The next stop for the Champion was back
at Carlisle in December to feature in the high-profile Simmental
NxtGen II sale at Borderway Mart on Friday 2 December.
The Goldies had a very successful day, winning three classes and
also securing the Senior Championship with their August 2021
born bull Newbiemains Moosala. From the first crop of calves by
the homebred Newbiemans Jericho, who has now been sold for
commercial breeding, he is the second calf bred out of Newbiemains
Icandy. Icandy’s sire Woodhall Fantastic has bred very successfully
for the herd with four of his sons being sold to an Italian AI stud who
the Goldies have been dealing with for the past three years and have
now sent a total of seven bulls to. Jim and Patricia established their
pedigree Simmental their herd back in 2004, after using Simmental
bulls over their dairy herd. Building their herd from the best stock
available, they are pioneers of type classification within the breed, a
process which has helped them to establish high quality female lines
and in turn has created a demand for their bulls.
Supreme & Junior Champion Newbiemains Noble Wynn.
Senior Champion Newbiemains Moosala.
Reserve Supreme & Reserve Junior Champion Springfield Niagara.
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