In the sheep lines at Perth Show the supreme title was awarded to Gordon and David Gray’s previously unshown Texel gimmer from the Ettrick flock, Selkirk.
A daughter of Knock Papoose, she is out of last year’s show female that stood champion at Biggar and Kelso, by Mitchellhill Paparazzi.
Sheep interbreed judge George Milne said: “She’s so correct and she has great breed character and hair. There were a lot of great champion winners forward but she stuck out she’s just at 12 o’clock.”
Just pipped at the post was a member of the winning inter-breed sheep pairs, a North-type Blackface ewe from Stephen Duncan and son Stephen’s Achdregnie unit from Glenlivet.
The Duncans, who were securing their second consecutive breed championship here, triumphed this time with a home-bred two-crop ewe by an £1,800 Craigneich out of a home-bred ewe by a £2,000 Achdregnie, sold to Calla.
This ewe also teamed up with a three-shear ram from Achdregnie to scoop the supreme pairs honours.
He was bought as a lamb at Stirling, for £2,900 from Chamberwells and also made up part of last year’s reserve inter-breed pair at Perth.
However, while North-type sheep reigned supreme over their South-type rivals for the main interbreed trophies, it was a South-type ram from Tom and Mairi Paterson’s Dunruchan flock from Muthill, Crieff, that lifted the trophy for the best Blackface male.
This was the reserve section champion, a two-shear ram bought at Ballymena, last year from Robert Loughrey.
Reserve in the pairs was the Charollais duo from Robert and Maimie Paterson, Upper Auchenlay, Dunblane.
Making up this breed pairing was the champion, a home-bred gimmer by a Southfield sire, that stood reserve inter-breed sheep champion at Dunblane, and an aged ram bought at Builth Wells.