An excellent entry of show cattle and lambs were forward. The Champion beast owned by Colin & Wendy Phillips, The Batch, Weobley, was a Limousin x Belgian Blue Steer weighing in at 570 kgs. At the fall of the hammer it made 180p and was purchased by Ms. Woodhead Brothers, Lancashire. It is the third year running that the Herefordshire farming partnership have won the Championship Cattle Trophy.

The Lloyds Bank Trophy for the champion pen of lambs was won for the sixth year running by Marston Court Farms, Pembridge.
The lambs weighed 45 1/2 kilos, made 180p and were purchased by A. C. Hunt, Birmingham


Picture 1 - Champ Beast. l-r. Mike Mulliner, Brian Meredith, Judges, Nigel Davies, Barclays Bank (sponsors) and winner Colin Phillips


Picture 2 - Champ Lambs l-r. David Edwards (sponsor), Roger Williams, Marston Court Farms, accepts his lamb trophy from David Braund, Lloyds Bank TSB Agriculture (sponsors)


Photography by Lillian Tomlinson