The beef classes at the 2017 Balmoral Show last week were dominated by Henry Savage and Sons’ Trueman Limousin Herd.

The Savages took the overall beef interbreed title with Trueman Lute, a 20-month-old Haltcliffe Hitec daughter from the dam Trueman Foxtrot.

They also won every championship within the Limousin breed, except senior male, which they did not enter. The reserve Limousin champion was Trueman Mozart, the first son from Trueman Jagger which was sold by the Savages in Carlisle for £147,000 in October 2015.

Also having a successful show was James Porter from Dromore, Co Down, who was placed reserve champion in the beef interbreed with his three-year-old Aberdeen Angus bull Carlhurlie Epic. Third place in the beef interbreed was William Short from Omagh with his 22-month-old Charolais bull Woodpark Lottie.

Dairy

In the dairy classes, the Flemming family from Seaforde took both the dairy interbreed and Jersey championships for the fourth year in a row. It was the second time that the six-year-old cow Potterswalls Action Daisybelle won the two titles for the Flemmings at Balmoral.

Reserve dairy interbreed was John Hunter from Crumlin with Sandyford Honest Blizzard, a six-year-old Ayrshire cow. In third place was a five-year-old Holstein cow exhibited by Steven Robinson from Downpatrick, Ortongrange Snowman Alysia.

Sheep

The overall interbreed sheep champion was a shearling Suffolk ewe exhibited by JA and NA Robinson from Downpatrick. Jack Gault from Newtownabbey had the reserve sheep interbreed champion with a two-year-old Texel ewe and third place was James Aiken from Dromore with a Border Leicester shearling ewe.

Diane Christie from Newtownards won the sheep pairs championship with a shearling ram and shearling ewe from her Charollais flock.

Interspecies

New on the Saturday was a champion of champions category, which put the champion beef breed up against the champion dairy, pig, horse, pony, sheep, rabbit, goat and bird.

In the end the first prize, worth £1,000, went to Robin and Agnes Todd from Banbridge for their Large White junior gilt.