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A Zwartble shearling ewe won the interspecies champion of champions title and a £1,000 spot prize for exhibitors, C and D Cromie from Ballynahinch, on the final day of last week’s Balmoral Show.
The Cromies had won the Zwartble breed championship and sheep interbreed championship earlier in the week with the shearling ewe.
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On the cattle lawn, the dairy interbreed title went to the Dairy Shorthorn breed for the first time in the show’s 150-year history. The five-year-old cow, Ballytrain Bloom 30th, was exhibited by James Lambe from Castleblayney and is a Brieryside Golden Sand daughter from the dam Ballytrain Laura 5th. In second place in the dairy interbreed was a Jersey cow of the same age that was exhibited by the Fleming family from Downpatrick.
The beef interbreed championship went to Henry Savage and sons from Newry for the second year in a row. The title winner was Trueman Noreen, an April 2017-born Limousin heifer sired by Trueman Jagger and from the dam Trueman Euphonium. In second place was Dermot Small from Kilkeel with Flo-Jo, a July 2017-born commercial heifer sired by the Limousin bull Trueman Idol.
In the shearing pavilion, Jack Robinson from Claudy won both the Royal Ulster National Championship and the open class of the Royal Ulster International Championship.
Allan Oldfield from New Zealand won the Open Blade Shearing Competition and Samuel McConnell from Ballymartin won the National Blade Shearing title.
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A Zwartble shearling ewe won the interspecies champion of champions title and a £1,000 spot prize for exhibitors, C and D Cromie from Ballynahinch, on the final day of last week’s Balmoral Show.
The Cromies had won the Zwartble breed championship and sheep interbreed championship earlier in the week with the shearling ewe.
On the cattle lawn, the dairy interbreed title went to the Dairy Shorthorn breed for the first time in the show’s 150-year history. The five-year-old cow, Ballytrain Bloom 30th, was exhibited by James Lambe from Castleblayney and is a Brieryside Golden Sand daughter from the dam Ballytrain Laura 5th. In second place in the dairy interbreed was a Jersey cow of the same age that was exhibited by the Fleming family from Downpatrick.
The beef interbreed championship went to Henry Savage and sons from Newry for the second year in a row. The title winner was Trueman Noreen, an April 2017-born Limousin heifer sired by Trueman Jagger and from the dam Trueman Euphonium. In second place was Dermot Small from Kilkeel with Flo-Jo, a July 2017-born commercial heifer sired by the Limousin bull Trueman Idol.
In the shearing pavilion, Jack Robinson from Claudy won both the Royal Ulster National Championship and the open class of the Royal Ulster International Championship.
Allan Oldfield from New Zealand won the Open Blade Shearing Competition and Samuel McConnell from Ballymartin won the National Blade Shearing title.
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