The British Simmental Review 2022

SHOWS
Great Yorkshire Show
THE SUN SHINES ON
POPES PRINCESS LUMI
AT THE GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW
• Popes Matchmaker
21 wins Male & Junior
Male, and Reserve Junior
Interbreed
• Heathbrow Girlie’s Ivy
lifts Overall Reserve
Supreme
The prolific Popes herd of Messrs J H and V
G Wood, Dutton, Lancashire, lifted the blue
riband Simmental breed championship title
in glorious sunshine at the 2022 Great Yorkshire
Show, Harrogate, held in July with their April
2020-born heifer Popes Princess Lumi. Judging
the Simmental section was Norman Robson of
the noted Kilbride Farm Simmental herd, Doagh,
Ballyclare, Co Antrim.
Overall Champion Popes Princess Lumi.
With a strong pedigree behind her, Popes Princess
Lumi is sired by the AI bull Team Celtic 11 and is out
of the herd’s much admired Popes Princess Cleo
EX95, who has previously won Overall Interbreed
titles at both the Great Yorkshire and Royal Welsh
Shows. Lumi’s granddam, Popes Nellys Princess
was the Simmental Overall Supreme Champion at
the Royal Show back in 2007.
Claiming the Reserve Championship title was
the class winner Heathbrow Girlie’s Ivy with her
four-month-old bull calf at foot, Heathbrow
Nationwide 22, who was bred and exhibited by
DA & LA Sapsed, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Girlie’s
Ivy is a heifers calf bred out of Heathbrow Girlie’s
Freesia and sired by the homebred Heathbrow
Findlay. Her bull calf Heathbrow Nationwide 22
is sired by the 10,000gns stock bull Blackford
Galaxy 15. It was a stout defence of a terrific run
that has seen the Heathbrow herd win the last two
Simmental Supreme Championships at the Great
Yorkshire Show with Heathbrow Important taking
Reserve Champion Heathbrow Girlie’s Ivy.
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