2023 Limousin Annual Journal

REGIONAL CLUBS
South Wales
& Mid-West
Limousin Cattle Club
Chairman Philip Davies reports...
2022 has been quite a year after the quiet of 2020
and 2021, with the show and sale season up and
running at full swing again.
The year started with the AGM that saw myself replace Mr
Richard Griffiths as Chairman. We hit the ground running
with preparations for the 50 th Anniversary celebrations.
The club held events throughout the area including
prizes at Hereford, Brecon and Whitland for Limousin
sired animals sold at market, as well as the club open
day which was to be held at the winner of the 2021 herd
competition, Messrs Lee and Lloyd of the Calogale Herd.
2022’s sales have not disappointed, with many of the
club members having great success in the sale ring.
In February Carlisle bull sale saw Chris White of the
Frogmore herd not only win Reserve Senior Champion
with his bull, the March 2020 born Frogmore Ronaldo,
but went on to sell him for 15,000gns. Also selling well
on the day was Senior Champion, Calogale Righteous,
brought forward by G J Lee and C M Lloyd of the Calogale
herd, Righteous sold for 10,500gns.
April saw the end of an era with the dispersal of the well
renowned Mynach herd of the Griffiths family, Cilgryman
Fawr Cwmfelin Mynach, with the family set on climates
and adventures new in France. Cows and calves sold
to a top price of 5,400gns for Mynach Nickiminaj, who
sold to club members, the Jenkins family Torcoed Herd,
Llantrisant. Bulls on the day sold to a top of 6,900gns for
Mynach Otis. The club would like to wish the Griffiths
family good luck for the future.
May Brecon bull sale saw a great sale for club members
with Dyfan and Carol James winning Overall Champion
on the day with Cowin Rebel, who went on to sell for
5,500gns, and also second in his class, Cowin Realdeal,
selling for 8,500gns. The James family also did well in the
female sale, winning Reserve Overall Female with Cowin
Sandy, who sold for 1,800gns to the Glyncoed herd.
Dinmore Limousins had their production sale at the
Dinmore estate on the 2 nd of July with a fantastic show
of females and bulls up for grabs, as well as frozen
embryos and embryo calves. Top price in the day was for
a 6 month old embryo calf, Dinmore Sensation, out of
show heifer Dinmore Perfection. She went on to sell for
30,000gns.
The Royal Welsh Show returned for the first time in 2
years and saw club members doing well in the sweltering
heat of the ring, with Paul Dawes presenting the heifer
Dinmore Perfection who won Overall Female Champion
and went on to win Reserve Overall Breed Champion.
Winning the Best Exhibitor Bred Female owned by a
breeder residing in Wales was Calogale Skye bred by G
J Lee and C M Lloyd who also won Best Junior Heifer
with Skye. RWAS Exhibtor Breed Pairs was won by the
Taygreen herd of James Jackson, with Taygreen Rhonda
and Ruby, while the Aled Edwards of the Dyfri herd won
the Recorded Continental Bull class with Dyfri Scholar
with Dyfri Samson coming in second. The Dyfri herd also
won the Limousin group of three animals, property of the
same exhibitor with Scholar, Samson and Sensation.
July also saw the delayed 50 th anniversary sale at H & H
Borderway mart Carlisle. The James family of the Cowin
Herd, entered Cowin Supereme who went on to sell
for 16,000gns. Of course, the anniversary celebrations
were not just about the sale, club members also took
part in the anniversary show. Representing the club
were the Dinmore herd of Paul Dawes, Cowin Herd of
Dyfan and Carol James, Frogmore herd of Chris White
and the Taygreen herd of James Jackson. Dinmore and
Taygreen both, winning firsts in classes 5 and 7 and
Frogmore winning second in class 7 also. Dinmore’s
heifer, Dinmore Solovely, won second in her class and
went on to win Intermediate Female Reserve Champion.
Also taking part were the Jones Family of the Mojo
herd, the Davies family of the Bleancwm herd and the
Edwards Family of the Dyfri herd. John and Ifan Philips
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