The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Fantastic day out at West Fife Show
West Fife Show’s new venue at Easter Bucklyvie Farm was a runaway success with record crowds and livestock filling the sunny showfield just outside Crossgates.
Show chairman Russell Wood praised the support from local breeders who brought record numbers of cattle, Clydesdales and Shetland sheep along.
He said: “A combination of great weather, new site and the first show after Covid motivated people to turn out and support us, and we really appreciate it.”
The day’s champion of champions, two-year-old interbreed beef and Charolais winner Burradon Raquel, repeated her win at the other Fife show at Cupar for owners Rachel Wylie and Richard Hassell, who own Brailes Livestock.
The two-year-old heifer also won the interbreed pairs competition when paired up with another Brailes heifer, Bassett Ruby.
Reserve beef interbreed champion was the British Blue from Gillian Scott, a 16-month-old heifer which won the home-bred baby calf championship at last year’s Stars of the Future.
Interbreed sheep champ was the Zwartbles winner, one-crop ewe Greystone Hella, from Ally Baird and his son Ewan, 9, who was repeating her success at Drymen and Ayr shows and is heading for the Royal Highland later this month.
Reserve sheep interbreed was a Suffolk from Ronnie Black, a three-crop ewe by a Castleisle tup.
In dairy classes, the showring was mobbed with cows and heifers, with the overall champion judged to be Riverdane Chief Rowena, the three-year-old Holstein cow shown by Andrew Wilson from Carskerdo, Cupar.
The Clydesdale and goat champions also took part in the champion of champions ring. The top Clydesdale was filly Tulloes Emily, from Jim Greenhill at Letham, and the goat, Capitol Frija, was from the Campbells of Linlithgow.