Sauvignon wins Individual Interbreed Championship

Raymond and Stephen with Sauvignon

Sauvignon, who is now almost 6 years old, added to his long list of winnings when he took the Overall Supreme Limousin Championship for the second year in a row, and Overall Interbreed Championship at the Great Yorkshire Show on Tuesday 10th July 2007.

From the largest breed entry within the beef section and from a very strong section of young and mature bulls Sauvignon was awarded the overall Limousin championship by the day's judge, well known breeder and former British Limousin Society Charman, Mr Peter Henshall, Sarkshields Farm, Eaglesfield, Lockerbie beating into reserve place the 44,000 guinea bull Willoge Vantistic.

With the Limousin championship safely tucked away, Sauvignon then went head to head against the other breed champions. In front of all the day's breed judges, he amassed a tremendous score, featuring a few perfect 20s, to capture the overall interbreed title by the large margin of 12 points.

In march of this year, Sauvignon made history by being the first bovine animal from the United Kingdom to attend the SIMA Show in Paris, France, were he was crowned European Limousin Champion, as well as male champion and champion carcase animal. He is also the first Limousin bull in the world to have sexed semen made available.

Sauvignon

Commenting on the champion, judge Peter Henshall said "Sauvignon displayed tremendous width from his shoulder right through his loin and moves vey well for such a big bull, especially with difficult conditions we had in the ring today .

The Brothers were delighted with their win, and thankful that the show was not cancelled due to the recent deluge of rain in the Harrogate area. Raymond commented, "The sun was out the whole week but the conditions in the ring were still pretty bad. Sauvignon weighed in at 1.62 tonnes, and with that amount of weight hitting the ground, he just sank into it. He triumphed despite this, and it was a great week for us".

The Crawfords had not just Limousins at the show, their Belgian Blue cow Radieuse, purchased for a UK record price of 30,000 guineas, won her class and went on to form part of the winning interbreed group of five for the Crawfords. Radieuse also won her class the week before at the Royal Show at Stoneleigh. This is the first time the Crawford Brothers have shown Belgian Blues at the Royal Shows in the UK.

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