A cracking return for County Show

August 13, 2022 at 4:58 pm

The Supreme Cattle Champion at the County Show, Lagas Rupert.

There was a massive turn out today as the County Show returned to Bignold Park following a two-year absence.

Orkney’s Supreme Cattle Champion was Lagas Rupert, a 17-month-old shorthorn bull from Laga Farms Ltd., Evie. Taking the overall reserve prize in the cattle was a March-born heifer calf from Balfour Baillie of Sebay View in Tankerness.

Champion sheep went to David Summers of Easthouse in Holm with a Suffolk ewe, while the reserve was a Cheviot ewe lamb from J.S. Baillie of Sebay in Tankerness.

The champion of the horses was a nine-year-old Shetland pony, Hools Janet, owned by Hools Shetland Pony Stud, The Brough, Toab. The overall reserve championship went to Alannah Norquay, of Ingquoy, South Ronaldsay, and her seven-year-old Oldenburg, Dallamires Golden Touch.

The champion in the dog section went to Nina, a nine-year-old German Shepherd shown by Grace Robertson from Longhope. The reserve went to six-year-old Newton, shown by Lesley Spence from St Mary’s.