Rising to the top of the British White cattle section before also being tapped out as Reserve Champion in the Rare & Minority Interbreed competition at Shropshire County Show on 25th May was the Pennington family’s senior stock bull, Cadarn Dump Truck (EX94). Displaying outstanding correctness and locomotion at a mighty 11 years of age and having been at work in the Bridgnorth-based Oldington herd since 2017, this bull gave an excellent representation of the breed’s longevity. Cadarn Dump Truck is sired by Cadarn Excavator, both bulls bred by Mr M Kennett.
Judging the British White breed classes for the very first time was Martin Osborne of the Woodfield herd near Stourbridge, who selected the senior bull as his Breed Champion, followed closely by the Exhibitor-bred Champion Lordswood Finley in reserve. Bred and exhibited by Mr J Brain, Stratford upon Avon, and also receiving the Reserve Male Championship, this two-year-old bull is by the popular AI sire De Beauvoir Huckleberry Finn.
The female standings saw a class of five maiden heifers, from which it was Alcroft Beetle from Miss S Cook, Cambridge, taking the top spot with Mr J Brain’s Lordswood Ada in reserve. The Lordswood herd gained further success by winning the pairs class, then going on to take the Reserve Interbreed Pair in the Rare & Minority section with their well-matched homebred yearlings Lordswood Jonte and Lordswood Ada.
RESULTS
Rare & Minority Reserve Interbreed Champion, Breed Champion, Male Champion Cadarn Dump Truck, Mr P Pennington
Reserve Breed Champion, Exhibitor-bred Champion, Reserve Male Champion Lordswood Finley, Mr J Brain
Female Champion Alcroft Beetle, Miss S Cook
Reserve Female Champion Lordswood Ada, Mr J Brain
Bull, any age 1st Cadarn Dump Truck, Mr P Pennington; 2nd Lordswood Finley, Mr J Brain; 3rd Lordswood Jonte, Mr J Brain; 4th Alcroft Panther, Miss S Cook
Heifer, born in 2023 1st Alcroft Beetle, Miss S Cook; 2nd Lordswood Ada, Mr J Brain; 3rd Alcroft Gloria, Miss S Cook; 4th Marshbrook Debutante, Mrs E Astbury; 5th Marshbrook Snapdragon, Mrs E Astbury
Pair of animals 1st Lordswood, Mr J Brain; 2nd Alcroft, Miss S Cook; 3rd Marshbrook, Mrs E Astbury
GALLERY
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