British Simmental Review 2018

REGIONAL CLUB REPORTS
East Anglian Simmental Club
Report by Hayley Clarke – Secretary
Another twelve months have gone and here I am
again writing a report for the Annual Review.
Firstly, I would like to thank all our members for
their support throughout the year, it is also great news that
numbers are growing in our club and this is good news for
the breed.
We had three weddings in the club, Chris & Zara Curson:
Hollybrook Herd, James & Kelly Brice: Rendham Herd &
Dennis Mitchell & Eliandro Felipeto - we wish them all the
best for the future.
Newark sale saw a top price of 3400gns for the bulls and
3800gns for the females. There were buyers for the cattle,
so we must try and improve our overall standard.
The show season seemed to go by in a flash, a lot of
the shows have now dropped breed classes which shows
a sign of the times with costs and people being worried
about their cattle picking up diseases.
Suffolk has breed classes, but this year was the lowest
it has seen with exhibitors forward. Lesley & David Sapsed
won with Heathbrow Gypsy Rose. Royal Norfolk was well
supported, Heathbrow herd won again - this time with
Heathbrow Girlie’s Ivy.
A few of us took the trip to the National Show at Great
Yorkshire, with all of us picking up rosettes. It was great to
see Simon back in the ring, we agreed Dad would be very
proud of what he has achieved. To great delight Paul and
Linda were awarded with a prize at the dinner for Fircovert
Cecilia, she has been to seven national shows!!
Once again, we took the long drive to the Royal Welsh
Show, much to our surprise numbers were not that good
either, we picked up Junior Male Champion with Williams
Invincible.
Fircovert Cecilia
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