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While there is no doubt this year s Royal Highland Showcase cannot be a patch on the previous world-class livestock events we have all come to love and live for at Ingliston – due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions – it is however, one that has to be hugely admired and relished when the vast majority of such events have either been cancelled or postponed. Having the inspiration and enthusiasm to keep this year s show alive from the onset, when many were dropping off like flies, has not only been a massive undertaking by all the organisers and those behind the scenes, but also the breeders and exhibitors who have enabled The Royal Highland Showcase to finally come to fruition.
Background? I was born and bred at Flowerybrae, Memsie, where my father farmed. I came straight home to work alongside him after I left school with the commercial cattle, until I got married in August, 1972. I then worked at various commercial and dairy farms before getting started in the pedigree work. My first pedigree job was at Harestone, where I brought out Charolais cattle for five years, before moving to the Durnos, at Uppermill, for a further five years. It was at that point I moved to Inverurie and started my freelance work in 2001 – securing two days a week at Thainstone auction market and filling the rest of my days in with pedigree cattle.
TOP price of 2,000gns (£2,100) at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Craven Native Day show and sale fell to a 13-month-old pedigree Aberdeen-Angus bull from Adrian and Penny Johnson’s Yearsley herd, based at Clarence House Farm in the village of the same name near Brandsby, in North Yorkshire’s Hambleton district. (Wed, May 5) The well-grown Yearsley Royal Lion, a Rawburn Jackson Eric son bred from Yearlsey Royal Lady, one of the herd’s best cow families – Lion’s grandmother made 11,000gns – found a new home in Calderdale with Robert Gemmell, of Bradshaw, Halifax. Hereford bulls sold to 1,500gns for the second prize show class winner consigned from the Stoner pedigree herd of Calderdale father and daughter, Brian and Lauren Boulton, based at Stones Farm, Wainstalls, Halifax.