Interbreed team and individual in the main ring
Charolais judging in the main ring
Charolais breeders enjoyed one of their most successful Royal Highland Shows ever; lifting five titles at this year’s show staged at Ingliston, Edinburgh. British Charolais Cattle Society chairman Alasdair Houston said: “My congratulations go to all of our exhibitors, who put on one of the finest exhibitions of British Charolais cattle seen at the Royal Highland Show in recent years.”
The Charolais Interbreed Champion “Group of Four” winner from the left, Inverlochy Gloria (Raymond Irvine), Glenericht Gem (Alan Drysdale Elgin Catherine (Matthew Milne) Maerdy Grenadier (Jim Muirhead) and Elgin Iona (Caroline Milne)
Sam, Matthew and Caroline Milne celebrate a tremendous inter breed championship won by Elgin Catherine
Elgin Catherine the RHAS 2013 inter breed champion
Matthew and Carolyne Milne with their boys celebrate the inter breed championship won by Elgin Catherine
From left to right, the judge Steve Nesbitt, Carolyne Milne with Elgin Iona, her husband Matthew with Elgin Catherine (supreme champion charolais) Jim Muirhead with Maerdy Grenadier (charolais male champion and reserve champion) David Walter and BCCS President Gilbert Crawford
Elgin Catherine and Maerdy Grenadier were the Charolais champion and reserve and went on to win the Beef Pairs interbreed championship
Beef Breeder Continental Charolais, Maerdy Grenadier
On Saturday, the supreme beef interbreed championship judge James Gammie, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, tapped out the six year old Elgin Catherine, a homebred cow by Gower Versace, with her four month old heifer calf by Goldies Banker at foot as champion. Exhibited by breeders R A Milne, Elgin, Morayshire, this was Catherine’s first appearance on the show circuit after claiming the junior heifer championship at the same event in 2009.
Elgin Catherine also represented the breed in the Asda Beef Cattle Pairs competition alongside the reserve breed champion Maerdy Grenadier, a two year old Maerdy Dynamite son exhibited by Major Walter, Balthayock, Perthshire, and D Muirhead, Arbroath, Angus, and bred by D E Evans, Mold, Flintshire, where they scooped the top spot under the eye of judge John Elliot, Roxburgh Mains, Kelso. Grenadier sold for a joint bid of 20,000gns at Stirling in February following a successful 2012 show season culminating in the supreme breed and junior interbreed champion titles as well as champion performance recorded bull at the Royal Welsh Show.
The pair continued their success in the beef interbreed team competition, where they were joined by two year old heifers Glenericht Gem, by Clyth Diplomat from W K and P Drysdale, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, and Inverlochy Gloria from J Irvine and Son, Ballindalloch, Banffshire, a Lochend Apache daughter – to complete a hat-trick of interbreed accolades. Glenericht Gem had two weeks earlier taken the reserve interbreed honours at Angus Show.
Maerdy Grenadier went on to take the continental title in the Marks and Spencer Beefbreeder and Breedplan championship for performance recorded bulls. Taking into account visual appearance as well as estimated breeding value (EBV) data, this one was judged by Ewan Brewis, Lempitaw, Kelso, with Elgin Highroller, a 17 month old Elgin Davinci son from the Milnes standing in reserve.
Charolais cross cattle dominated the McIntosh Donald Steak Competition, where a panel awarded the £1,000 prize to a steak from a 341.2kg carcase, graded R4L, from R Green, Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire. The top four steaks were all Charolais sired and topped an entry of 150 sirloins.
Allanfauld Heiress
Allanfauld Hustler
Elgin Highroller
Maerdy Grenadier – Male Champion and Continental Beef
Glenericht Gem – Breeder Champion
Olrig Highwayman – Reserve Junior Bull
Balthayock Fortune
Blackford Gine
Overall Champion
Elgin Catherine, Mr R A Milne & Sons
Reserve Champion
Maerdy Grenadier, Mr D H Muirhead & Major DFWH & N Walter
Best Bull
Maerdy Grenadier, Mr D H Muirhead & Major DFWH & N Walter
Reserve Best Bull
Elgin Highroller, Mr R A Milne & Sons
Overall Junior Champion
Elgin Highroller, Mr R A Milne & Sons
Reserve Junior Champion
Blackford Gina, A MacPherson
Best Junior Bull
Maerdy Grenadier, Mr D H Muirhead & Major DFWH & N Walter
Reserve Junior Bull
Olrig Highwayman, Mr J Morris
Female Champion
1st Elgin Catherine, RA Milne 2nd Blackford Gina, A MacPherson
Junior Female Champion
1st Blackford Gine, A MacPherson 2nd Carwood Holly, Mr & Mrs Wight
Best animal of opposite sex to Champion
Maerdy Grenadier
Best Animal bred by exhibitor
Elgin Catherine
Best animal bred by exhibitor who must be a member of the Scottish Region
Elgin Catherine
PAIRS
1st Elgin 2nd Allanfauld
Class 245 Female born on or between 1st April and 31st July 2012
1st Carwood Holly, Mrs & Mrs C Wight 2nd Harviestoun Heidi, Saxstead Livestock Ltd 3rd Lagavaich Hermine, A & A Wight
Class 246 Female born on or between 1st January and 31st March 2012
1st Carscreugh Hattie, Mr A K Brooke Ltd 2nd Lesliepark Hilary, Nr R Russell 3rd Carscreugh Hernando, Mr A K Brooke
Class 247 Female born on or between 24th June and 31st December 2011
1st Blackford Gine, Anne MacPherson 2nd Vexour Galina, Mr J Boomaars 3rd Lesliepark Grandeur, Mr G Russell
Class 248 Female born on or between 1st January and 23rd June 2011
1st Glenericht Gem, W K & P Drysdale 2nd Inverlochy Gloria, Mr J Irvine & Son 3rd Balthayock Grace, Major DFWH & N Wakter
Class 249 Female born on or between 1st January and 31st December 2010
1st Balthayock Fortune, DFWH & N Walter
Class 250 Female, in milk or in calf, born on or before 31st December 2009
1st Elgin Catherine, Mr R A Milne & Sons 2nd Ugie Erin, Mr D H Muirhead 3rd Holtstead Emdeholly, Whittaker & Con Farms
Class 251 Bull born on or between 1st April and 30th June 2012
1st Allanfauld Hustler, A MacGregor (Allanfauld) Ltd 2nd Vexour Harlow, Mr J Boomaars 3rd Elgin Highlander, Mr R A Milne & Sons
Class 252 Bull born on or between 1st January and 31st March 2012
1st Elgin Highroller, Mr R A Milne & Sons 2nd Olrig Highwayman, Mr J Morris 3rd Carscreugh Hernando, Mr A K Brooke
Class 253 Bull born on or between 1st January and 23rd June 2011
1st Maerdy Grenadier, Mr D H Muirhead & Major DFWH & N Walter 2nd Blelack Giggsey, Mr J Irvine & Son
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