Royal Highland Show, what a week!

Hi all

well the weather didn't improve following the cancellation of Balcarres, and on the first day of the RHS i heard that Oatridge Horse Trials had also cancelled (which was a week away) and Hutton in the Forest due to run over the RHS weekend had also had to sadly call a halt to their plans. Such a shame for all organisers.  Anyway I am now heading to SNEC for some BS so will have to see how we get on!

Getting back to the Royal Highland Show I can honestly say despite the weather it was AWESOME!

We took the sheep through during a quiet time so did not have to fight to get to the pens, this year we had 3 pens with 4 sheep.  We had entered Yellabelly Rudolph in the aged tup class, Bryland Carna in the shearling tup and Bryland Magic, with Bryland Twilight both being in the shearling ewe class.

The show started on Thursday with heavy rain, nearly all day but it was still very busy with visitors and many school parties trying to get lost in the sheep tents.  We left the field around 5pm after making sure the sheepies were happy

Early start on Friday morning to get into the showfield and prep the sheep before showing started at 9am.  There were five classes in total: Aged tup, shearling tup, aged ewe and shearling ewe and besst four-horned sheep.

So John started showing, and was thrilled when Rudolph was awarded first place.  Rudolph seemed to love being in the ring, and he certainly loved posing for photos!
Next up was Bryland Carna in the shearling tup class.  Although this class was smaller than usual there were still plenty of entries.  And we were amazed when Carna was called in first!  We have never been placed higher than third so it was fabulous to have won two classes!

In the shearling class, John asked me to take the larger of the two, Twilight, who after the judge reduced the class and removed John and Magic along with a couple of others, was awarded 2nd place.

So we were absolutely thrilled to have done so well, we had to take the two tups into the best male judging, Rudolph was award this, which means the tup who came second to him has to come out to challenge for the reserve.  I think Carna decided he quite enjoyed the attention as he stood beautifully for the judge to examine him and was awarded reserve :D

So Rudolph was in the championship against the lovely Shearling ewe that belonged to a friend of ours.  We were blown away to be awarded Champion Hebridean with him.

You get a sash, trophy and lots of frillies.  As you can see from the picture, John was thrilled!

So as you can imagine, despite the weather, we had an AWESOME time at the RHS!