The British Simmental Review 2022

NEWS
DRUMSLEED LEGACY WINS SIMMENTAL
‘CHAMPIONSHIP OF EUROPE’
• Banhill Farm Lord places third as UK Simmental breeding takes centre stage
The two-year old bull Drumsleed Legacy from Gerald and
Morag Smith, Drumsleed, Fordoun, Laurencekirk, has won the
Simmental Championship of Europe within the ‘Simmental
Champion of the World’ competition run online by the Texas based
Simmental Breeder.
The April 2020 born Drumsleed Legacy is by the herd’s 11,000gns
stock bull Wolfstar Gordy and is out of Drumsleed Farina 14. A strong
breeding female line, Drumsleed Farina’s previous calf, Drumsleed
Kingsman, sired by the herd’s noted show bull Drumsleed Hivy,
sold for 11,000gns at Stirling in February 2021. Farina was also
Simmental Reserve Champion at this year's Black Isle and Turriff
shows respectively. Earlier this year Drumsleed Legacy himself
won the Male Championship at the 2022 Royal Highland Show at
Ingliston, and it was this win that qualified him for the European and
World Simmental competitions. After securing the European title
Drumsleed Legacy went on to place a highly creditable third in the
World Championship finals, where he was narrowly pipped by entries
from South Africa and Mexico. Commenting, Gerald Smith said: “It
really is a great honour for Drumsleed Legacy to be crowned the
Simmental Champion of Europe and we are really delighted. It’s a
fantastic achievement for us with the Drumsleed herd of course, but
also for British Simmental as a whole.” The Drumsleed herd presently
comprises of 100 pedigree breeding females.
UK breeding was very much to the fore in the European section.
Over and above the Championship win, the Northern Irish bred bull
Bannhill Farm Lord took third place for Welsh breeders Mr and Mrs
MO and LD Jones, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire. Male Champion for
the Jones family at this year’s Royal Welsh Show, the February 2020
born Bannhill Farm Lord is sired by the noted Saltire Impressive 17
and is bred out of Ballinalare Farm Fuscia. Banhill Lord was bred by
Alan Wilson, Rathfriland, Co Down.
The Simmental judges for both the ‘Champion of Europe’ and
‘Champion of the World’ awards consisted of Juan Pablo Lattanti
Murguía (Argentina); Tom Baker (Australia); Jim Goldie (Scotland): and
Cary Crow (USA).
This win for Drumsleed Legacy is the third time in four years that
a British Simmental bull has won the ‘Champion of Europe’ award,
with Lisglass Goldstar from Gordon Clark, Cupar, Fife, having
been crowned in 2020 competition, and prior to that Heathbrow
Drumsleed Legacy.
Bannhill Farm Lord.
Important from David and Lesley Sapsed, Herts in 2019. These
awards have been won at a time when there has been a growing
demand for British Simmental genetics internationally. Over the last
eighteen months, exports of semen and embryos have been secured
to the USA and Australia, whilst exports of breeding females and
young bulls have been made to Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
UK and USA based breeding companies have also been securing an
increasing number of British Simmental bulls for significant semen
exports to China and Asian markets.
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