A farming couple from Ceredigion took the title of supreme champion in their first appearance at the National Hereford Show.

The event specifically for the horned section of the Hereford herd book returned after a Covid-induced hiatus to Tenbury Countryside Show.

Sorting the line-ups was Romany Herefords’ Robert Wilson who had travelled south from Kelso and found his supreme champion in the form of Haven Silvester from Gwyndaf and Helen Davies of the Creuddyn herd, based in Temple Bar, near Lampeter.

Also standing grand male and senior mal champion with Steven O’Kane on the halter, it was the exhibitors’ Tenbury debut.

Bred by E L Lewis and son and purchased at two-year-old, this April 2019-born bull is by a succession of National Hereford Show victors, being a son of Haven Lamborghini which stood senior male champion in the same ring three years ago which itself is by Haven Cavalier, another Tenbury champion.

Its dam, Haven Thrush 64th, is also responsible for producing Haven Thrush 74th, the recent price record breaker, which sold at 20,000gns.

Robert described this bull as having ‘great scale and width’ while still moving well for an animal with ‘so much muscle and length’.

The reserve supreme champion title went to Pulham Pansy 26th from James and Ellen Lake, Froxfield, Hampshire, another first-time exhibitor at this show, having already gained the grand female and intermediate female titles.

Also coming across from west Wales to Tenbury for the first time were Paul and Will Griffiths, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire who had previously not shown beyond the Welsh Winter Fair.

Their April 2020-born Penrhiwgoch BM Progress 483T stood second to Haven Silvester in its class and reserve in the senior male championship. By Border Mortlake M8 which sired the 2019 champion and 2020 reserve champion steers at the Welsh Winter Fair, it is out of Penrhiwgoch Binks Dowager 130.