LOTHERSDALE dairy farmers David, Margaret and Jennie Booth won the Holstein Overall Breed Champion at the Great Yorkshire Show with their homebred cow.

Shawdale Atwood Pamela 119 won the junior cow in milk class, Holstein exhibitor-bred champion as well as the Holstein championship and best udder in show.

She also won her class at the UK Dairy Expo, at Carlisle, in March, where she was first in the class of 18 animals and intermediate honourable mention.

Earlier this month she was champion cow and part of the first prize winning group of progeny by Maple Down IGW Atwood in the Lancashire Holstein Club’s Summer Herds Competition.

Also adding to the successful day in Harrogate for the Broom House Farm family was Shawdale Beemer Marie 4 which won the junior two-year-old class of milking heifers and went on to be reserve junior champion.

Pamela 119 and Marie 4 are part of the 150 cow milking herd situated on the Yorkshire/ Lancashire border milked by three Lely robots.

NEMSA chairman Kevin Wilson and his son, James, who farm in Blubberhouses, between Skipton and Harrogate, were crowned North of England Mule champions at the show with their first single gimmer lamb.

The product of their home-bred Bluefaced Leicester tup, Hewness L1, himself a son of the renowned Harland F1 Bighead, then progressed to further glory when becoming champion commercial female.

There was a second Great Yorkshire coup for another local couple, Gavin and Becky Haworth, who run the Hurrsdale Jacob sheep flock in Skipton and who took the breed championship with their first prize ewe, Hurrsdale Jackie, a home-bred five-year-old.

She has been shown successfully since being a lamb, winning many prizes in her five years, including successes at local agricultural shows.

This year, the Haworths gained prizes with all six sheep taken to the show.