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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, August 31 st, 2006 9 All the very best goes on show ______ by Duncan Smith


all the very best from the Ribble Valley’s fields, farmyards and farmhouse kitchens was brought together for the 79th annual Chipping and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society Show. Held on Saturday, the popular show attracted


large crowds who enjoyed a packed day of events and attractions. Despite some ominous dark clouds rolling across the Rowland fells, the weather stayed mainly fine, with only the occa­ sional and very brief shower providing a welcome opportunity to browse around the marquees. This year’s President, Allan Kay, has served on


the show committee for more than 40 years - one of the dedicated band of stalwarts who have ensured that this event has survived and thrived, earning a reputation as one of the friendliest shows in the rural calendar. He was relishing the opportunity to meet and greet old friends and welcome VIP guests to the President’s tent. “I’m having a very good day,” he said. “I t ’s


another good show, with very good entries, espe­ cially in the cattle, sheep and horses. I t’s a credit to everyone involved in putting it on.” A wide variety of attractions were spread


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around the showground, in Longridge Road, from pygmy goats to prize poultry. A display of vintage farm machinery included several trac­ tors, restored to pristine condition, plus working displays from a clattering 1943 Powell threshing machine and a 1940 mobile sawimll, its spinning blade slicing through timber like a hot knife through butter. The horticulture tent was packed with beauti­


ful blooms and delicious-looking vegetables, while a fascinating cheese-making display, by Leagram Organic Cheeses, proved a popular draw among the many prize-wiiming cheeses and trade stands. In the WI tent, the depth of talent across the district was evident in the wide vari­ ety of handicrafts, baking and country crafts on


display. Entries in the various photography classes


Local: Best Dairy Heifer - Ken Thomber. Holstein Friesian: Champion, Reserve Champion, Sir W. Brass Cup and T. Cowell


Cup - M. and J. Bristol. Ayrshire: Championship Silver Salver - Bill


Bruce. Cherry Tree Cup for best heifer and Rose Bowl for best cow - Ken Thomber. Open Dairy Champion: S. Bullock Cup - M.


and J. Bristol. Simmental Champion: Society Challenge


Cup - J. and V. Wood. Jersey Champion: Jim Singleton Memorial


Trophy - J.D. and J. J. Jones. Belpan Blue Champion: Society Challenge


Cup - Maguire Livestock. Limourin Champion: B. Jeffery Cup -


I.K.


and A.M. Grisedala Commercial Beef: W. Carefoot Cup - Ian


Townson. Best Steen Asko Tankard - Ian Townson. YFC Champion: J. Stott Cup - J. France. Best Animal in YFC: Sharrock Trophy -


D.E and S.J. Berry. Best Cow in Herd Book - Stonyhurst Cup -


J. and V. Wood. W. Pye Memorial Trophy - K. Thomber. Supreme Dairy Champion - M. and J. Bris­


tol. - J . and V. Wood.


Supreme Cattle Champion Society Rosette SHEEP


Mules: Best female - A. Barnes Challenge


Cup-Saddle End. Blue Faced Leicesten Best Group — Chal­ lenge Ura—S. Stott. Champion - J. Stott Tro­


phy-S . Stott. Suffolk: Best Group - Challenge Cup - WJL. Cross Bred Homed: Best Group—Challenge


Cup - Mr and Mrs C. Ward. Swaledale: Best Group - Roebuck Challenge


Cup - J.C. Walker. Champion Swaledale - Keith Curwen Memorial Trophy-Saddle End. Lonk: Best Group — R.M. Addyman Chal­


lenge Cup - J. Rckard. Gritstone: Champion - Rosette (no cup) -


Huntington. Jacob Sheep: Best Male - Stanley Rich


Memorial Trophy - C. Richardson. Best Female - Stanley Memorial Trophy - M.


would have easily graced a professional gallery. Fairground rides added to the fun, while food


stands, hot dog vans, a catering tent run by the Cobbled Comer Cafe and a busy bar kept every­ one fed and watered. In the main show ring, so many classes had to


be judged that it was often done simultaneously, the large ring split into several sections and always surrounded by spectators. Tension mounted when the time came to choose the champion beef animal, the four judges evenly split between two contenders. A fifth judge, Brian Lucas, was drafted in to cast the deciding vote, opting for the Simmental heifer and calf exhibited by Jimmy and Vikki Wood. Martin Bristol’s Holstein Friesian was judged


supreme dairy champion, giving the judges the near-impossible job of comparing it to the Wood’s Simmentals to produce the show’s Supreme Cattle Champion. After lengthy delib­ eration they went five-to-three in favour of the exceptional Simmental pair. It was the second year in succession that the


Woods had come out on top with the same ani­ mal, now just three years old and showing this time with its first calf at foot, born in March. Jimmy and Vikki are meat wholesalers by trade, but keep a breeding herd of 25 Simmentals over the hill in Dutton as “a hobby”, selling on to other aspiring breeders. Their 18 years of experience and herd-build­


ing has paid real dividends with this heifer, which was reserve female champion at the Royal Show, supreme beef champion at both the York­ shire and Royal Lancashire shows and has brought home a string of other trophies. Competition was just as tough in the inany


sheep classes, spectators surrounding the judg­ ing pens.


Champion sheep on the day was a Lonk gim- mer shearling shown by T. Whitwell and Sons,


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of Pendleton Hall, Clitheroe. “I t ’s the first time we’ve won the supreme


champion here, but we won with the sarne ani­ mal a t Trawden a fortnight ago,” said Mr Whitwell. “We were showing seven sheep here today and we’ve done pretty well.”


Walsh. Champion - A.J. Collinson Cup - M. Walsh.


Bare Breed: Champion - T.E. Foster Tro­ phy - Mr Baldwin. Res Champion - C. Slater


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Trophy—R. Smith. Gritstone: Champion - J. Hayhurst Com­


mittee Cup - Huntington. Supreme Sheep Champion: Heyes Silver Challenge Cup and Society Rosette - T.


Whitwell. Most Points: Silcock and Sons Silver Chal­


lenge Cup-Saddle End. Best Inter Breed Pain J. Hayhurst Chal­


lenge Cup - Walker and Saddle End. Best Pair of Horned Lambs: Frank and


Mary Kelsall Trophy - T.W. WhitweU. POULTRY


Show Champion Chip - G. Hodge Soft Feather Challenge Cup - G. Hodge Shield for the Best Hard Feather - S. Rich. Shield for the Reserve Show Champion - S.


^ Ttokard for the Best Waterfowl - C. East- wood and A. Wills.


Cup for the Best Children’s Exhibit m the ... ..


Poultry Section - Kirsty Eccles. PIGEONS


Best Flying Pigeon - R. (3rook. Best Fancy Pigeon - P Richardson SuprenePigeon-E Richardson. EGGS


Best Egg-A. Martin. Reserve Best Egg- G.C. 'Tayley. CHEESE


New Crumbly Lancashire - Carron M g e . Creamy Lancashire - Singleton’s Dairy. Tasty Lancashire - Canon Lodge. Any Other Variety Crumbly Cheese -


Cringlebrooks. ■ Mild Cheddar-Aspatria.


Mature Cheddar - Haverfordwest. Double Gloucester-Taw Valley. Red Leicester-'Taw Valley. Blue Veined, any variety- Hartington Dove


Dmry. Smoked Cheddar-Greenfields.


Additive Cheese - any variety - Sandhams. Timothy Procter Cup tor the Best Lan­


cashire Cheese in the Show - Carron Lodga Biosystems Cup for the Best Traditional


Lancashire Cheese m the Show - Canon Lodge. MRS TRACEY


CRCFT with Harriet and Eliza and one of the


Friesian


contingent at Chipping Show


(B260806/le) Always popular are the various horse classes,


none more so than the gentle ^ants of the equine world, the shire horses. Cne early winner was Steve Timms, of Pilling, whose three-and-a-h^-year-old gelding, Acle-Cdin, was judged best in its class. “We first brought him here as a foal at seven


months and we’ve shown him here every year since,” said a delighted Mr Timms. “We really enjoy coming to Chipping.” Among the many visitors to the showground


were Ribble Valley Mayor and Mayoress Coun. Peter Ainsworth and his wife, Thirza. As beef farmers from Clayton-le-Dale, they are


a n n u a l visitors to the show, though this was their first time as VIP guests. “We come every year, but it’s the first time we’ve got in free!” joked the


Mayor. Children’s sports had parents and godparents


cheering in one part of the field while in another a hard-fought tug o’ war contest was staged, the red- shirted and red-blooded men of Chipping YFC proving unbeatable on the day. The eight-mile fell race, organised again by the Preston Harriers, drew a good field of entries, runners of all ages proving equal to the demanding task. A dog show also pulled in plenty of entries, with


A full round-up of the main trophy and award winners CATTLE


Haverfordwest. LIGHT HORSE SECTION


Champion Light Horse - Mrs Marshall.


Equitation Champion - Emily Rawson. Working Hunter Champion - C. Smith. Supreme Shetland Pony Champion - Abbey j


Diveimy. I Junior Shetland Pony Champion - Abbey


Divenny. Best Foal-J.D. Kay.


HEAVY HORSES Supreme Champion of classes 120-27 - Nat


West Bank Cup and Shire Horse Society Silver Spoon Award-J.Willdnson. Wirmer of Classes 124 and 125 for Best Colt


or Filly Foal - E.R. Williams. Best Pair of Heavy Horses - W.P. Brewer


Cup-M. Booker.


hurst Trophy - Thwaites Brewery. VINTAGE FARM MACHINERY


Non ’Tractor-J. Winder Bam Engine - L. Harrison HORTICULTURE


Best Exhibit in Show - Mr Beard Cup and


Engraved 'Tankard-F. Hoyla Most Points in the Horticulture Section -


Society Cup, Hortculture Classes-J. Rich. Most Points in th e Vegetable Classes -


Major Read Cup-F.Hoyla Most Points in the Flower Section - The ] Terry Wadeson Memorial Challenge Cup - J.


Procter. Most Rjints in Classes 4,5 and 6 - The ’Tom


Rich Memorial ’Trophy - F. Hoyle. Best Bose Exhibit - The Ted Hoyle Memor­


ial Rose Bowl - Louis Hunt. MostPointsinPbtPlant Classes - The Dan


Seed Memorial ’Trophy - J. Procter. Best Dahlia Exhibit - J.D. Kay Cup - J.


Procter. Most Rjints in Dahlia Classes- Mr and Mrs


Singleton Cup - J. Procter. Best Exhibit in the Children’s Classes-The Fr Francis Duggan Memorial Trophy - Lucy


Foot. Best Tomatoes - The Arthur Jackson


Memorial ’Trophy - F. Hoyle. J.D. Kay Challenge Chip - J. Procter.


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. classes ranging from full pedigree to the dog with


the waggiest tail. There was more colourful spectacle in the fancy


dress on horseback competition, with a dozen or more very imapnative entries, including St George and the dragon and a horse dressed as a cowlroy car­ rying a rider dressed as a horse—


not something you


see every day! An entertaining, relaxed and well-informed com­


mentary to the whole day’s proceedings was provid­ ed by John Swingler, of Clitheroe Auction Mart, his unrivalled knowledge of the local farming scene, combined with a decade’s experience in the loud­ speaker van, making him the ideal man for the job.


• For more pictures from Chipping Show, see


next week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. WI - HANDICRAFTS, ETC


Cakes - G. Eastham. P*reserves - Mrs B. Taylor. Handicrafts- Ruth Dixon. Photography - Margaret Whittaker. Flowers - Freda Haynes. Chocolate Cake - Jean Morris. Children’s section - Shaun Peckham.


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