A record entry of over 1,100 cattle and 3,200 sheep were entered, with show classes for both feeding lambs and beef stores.

Ms. T. J. Richards & Son, Garn Farm, Newcastle swept the board again in the lamb classes for the second time in the month. Their texel x lambs, made £44 each, and at the fall of the hammer were purchased by a Stourbridge buyer.

Picture 1 - Champion Lambs. l-r. Martin Richards, accepts the first prize rosette for lambs, from Bill Wathes, Judge, watched by Michael Thomas, Auctioneer.

In the cattle classes, Harold Bebb, from West Felton won the Blakeway/Fowden Steers Trophy for the sixth time, in the ten years that it has been awarded at Ludlow market. The continental x steers weighed in at 580kgs, making £736 a piece.

Ms. JR & T Franks, Bachfield, Kimbolton, took first prize and The Wyken Trophy in the heifer classes, as they did last year. Their home bred continental x heifers weighed 442kgs, making £525 a piece and were purchased by a West Midlands buyer.

Picture 2 - Champion Cattle. l-r. Tom Franks, with his champion heifers rosette, Rosemary Spencer, McCartneys, presents Harold Bebb with his steers trophy, watched by Roland Franks with his heifers trophy.

Photography by Lillian Tomlinson