Charolais heifer is Dounby cattle champ

G.T. & S. Coghill, Muce farm, Birsay took the top prize in the cattle section with their March 2012 born in-calf heifer, Hekra Holly. The heifer is from stock bull Sewell Dagger and a home bred cow. The overall reserve prize went to Liam Muir, of Upper Onston, Stenness, for his February born, homebred heifer calf named Penny Black.

In the sheep section, the overall champion was  a Beltex gimmer, shown by A. and V. Copland, Overhouse, Harray. A Charollais gimmer, shown by Sheena Coghill, Muce Farm, Birsay took reserve.

The best horse in the yard at this year’s Dounby Show was Courtway Sampson, a 12-year-old dun Welsh Section A pony, shown by Diane Walker of Newcott, Stenness. Earlier in the day, the 11.2hh horse won the special prize in the in-hand Mountain and Moorland Breed category.

The reserve horse title went to J. and M. Slater of Millquoy with their five-year-old Shetland stallion Millquoy Drummer Boy.