Spartan 1 Typhoon from SC and GL Hartwright, Abingdon, Oxfordshire graced the ring at the annual Designer Genes sale to realise a new UK breed record for a poll Hereford bull of 16,000gns.
Holmefold 1 Rocco from Maddy Scott, Tower View, Lancashire strode into the supreme champion position at the Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association Christmas Calf Show
Simon and Gemma Hartwright’s Spartan herd was a volume award winner at the Hereford Cattle Society’s annual awards dinner, taking an assortment of silverware back home to Oxfordshire.
Spartan 1 Typhoon from SC and GL Hartwright, Abingdon, Oxfordshire was tapped out as supreme, grand male and senior male champion at the National Poll Show.
Normality resumed with the National Hereford Show returning after a Covid-induced hiatus, where Haven Silvester from Gwyndaf and Helen Davies took supreme.
Porton House 1 Lilac Wine 1st from Vicky Weller of Porton House Herefords, Newport was tapped out by judge Matthew Goulding as the supreme champion of the Royal Welsh Show.
The Lewis Family Bicentenary Sale saw a number of breed records smashed by the Haven and Havenfield herds of EL Lewis and son and JW Lewis’ Boycefield herd.
