SALLY Wellock’s Harehills pedigree Holstein Friesian herd at West House Farm, Oldfield, near Oakworth, rattled up a hat-trick of consecutive championship wins at July’s second Craven Dairy Auction show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart on Monday.

She won her latest title with another newly calven heifer from her long-established Akretta family of milkers. This one, Harehills Akretta 754, was by the Genus sire, De-Su Topsy, and came to market 16 days calved and giving 26 litres. Picked out by show judge Andrew Townsend, of Southfield, Burnley, the victor was bagged for £1,650, joint top price, by Robert Metcalfe, of Brearton, Otley.

For good measure, the West Yorkshire dairy farmer also presented two further prize winners from her four-strong line-up of milkers. One was the first prize newly calven cow, Harehills Magpie 629, by another Genus dairy bull, Autumn-Ridge Matson. The seven days-calved 36 litre third calver made £1,100 when also joining Gargrave’s Colin Whitelock. The other was the third prize newly calven heifer, Harehills Lobelia 753, another well-bred eight days-calved daughter of De-Su Topsy. The 27 litre heifer was knocked down for £1,480, again to Mr Metcalfe.

Repeating his reserve championship success at the opening July show and sale was Wilson Stewart, who runs the Straidahanna Holstein Friesian pedigree herd at Low Hesket in the Eden Valley near Carlisle. His second prize 22 days-calved 30 litre heifer, Straidahanna Brady Barbara, also made joint top call of £1,650 when becoming a third Robert Metcalfe acquisition.

Newly calven heifers averaged £1,502 per head.

A much larger turnout of 62 dairy-bred rearing calves at the weekly Monday sale sold for some heady prices, with an increased number of black and whites doing notably well to average £80.64 per head, with a top of £140 for a strong bull calf from the same day’s dairy show judge, Andrew Townsend, of Southfield, Burnley. He also sold Longhorn heifer and bull calves at £160 each.

Of the Continentals, the leading performers on price yet again were Church Farm Enterprises, of Burton Leonard, with British Blue-cross heifers at £430 and £420, along with a same way bred bull calf at £400. The overall Continental-cross selling average was £306.33 per head.

A solid contingent of native calves saw Aberdeen-Angus bulls not over priced when averaging £258.75 per head, with heifers a straight trade at £170 across the board. The top price native was a £265 Angus bull calf from Paul and Janet Bolland, of Airton. The section produced an overall average of £188.40.

Meanwhile, in Harrogate there was plenty to celebrate for one farming family in the sheep classes at the Great Yorkshire Show.

Jim and Christine Scrivin, of Park House Farm, Elslack, near Skipton, had both the champion Lonk and the champion Derbyshire Gritstone.

They also had the overall champion fleece, produced by a Mule hogg from a Lonk ewe crossed and a Bluefaced Leicester tup.

Mr Scrivin said his family had a long history of breeding Lonks and had been showing, mainly with Lonks, since the early 1970s.

Their champion Lonk was a ram lamb, which was home-bred from a Brian Crawshaw tup and was previously champion at Clitheroe sales.

The Mule champion at the show was a gimmer shearling belonging to Graeme Jackson, of Mount Pleasant, High Bentham, who did well in a number of Mule classes as well as winning the championship for the second year running. His winning sheep this year was bred by John Lord, of the Hewgill flock at Stainmore. It was the 2017 interbreed champion at Kilnsey Show, when still owned by Mr Lord.