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BROCKHURST HEAVENLY CROWNED
BEEF INTERBREED CHAMPION & OVERALL
CHAMPION LIMOUSIN AT GYS 2016
» DOUG MASH OF
Torrington Farm,
Buckinghamshire scooped
the Limousin Overall Supreme
Championship and went on
to take the Beef Individual
Interbreed Championship with
his Wilodge Vantastic daughter,
Brockhurst Heavenly, at the
2016 Great Yorkshire Show on
Tuesday 12th July.
The September 2012-born
Brockhurst Heavenly is rearing
her second calf within Doug’s
80-strong Limousin herd, which
was established in 1988 with
purchases from Tanhill and
Upland sales. This was the
cow’s first major show win;
however her dam, Brockhurst
Bolshoi, is a past interbreed
champion at the Great
Yorkshire. Continuing the Mash
family’s success on the day,
Heavenly’s niece, Brockhurst
Littlegem, came runner-up in
the class for heifers born on or
after 1 January 2015.
Regular exhibitors, it was
only by chance that Doug and
his team made it to this year’s
Great Yorkshire. “By the time
we sent our entry in, all the
stalls were thought to have
been taken,” he said. “We only
found out the Friday before
that space would be available,
so it was a rush to get ready.
But we’re obviously highly
delighted with the result.”
Judging the Limousin classes
was Dafydd Griffiths, who runs
the noted Mynach herd in
Whitland, Wales, who said:
“Brockhurst Heavenly is very
true to type, with a big frame
and a leg in each corner,” said
Mr Griffiths. “She also has a
sweet head and was shown
with a very good calf at foot.”
Later Brockhurst Heavenly
floated to the show’s Supreme
Individual Beef Interbreed
award when being put up
by the judge Willie Seels of
Doncaster.
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