Supreme champion buyer Keelham Farm Shop makes history
Supreme champion buyer Keelham Farm Shop makes history
History was made at Skipton Auction Mart’s prestigious Christmas show and sale of prime cattle when Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton, Bradford, paid a show-topping £3,164 for the supreme champion to make it an unprecedented clean sweep of 12 successive prime beef title-winning purchases at every single monthly show this year.
Pictured with the 2014 Skipton Christmas prime beef supreme champion are, from left, Edward Fawcett, co-judge Joe Woolley, William and Carl Fawcett, co-judge and buyer James Robertshaw, and Jimmy Fawcett.
It’s a feat that has never before been seen at the North Yorkshire venue and one James Robertshaw, co-owner of Keelham Farm Shop, was hoping he might pull off, though he had to fight off strong competition at the packed ringside to secure his chosen champion, as he co-judged the show with Joe Woolley, of Woolley Bros Wholesale Butchers in Holbrook, Sheffield.
The victor, a 565kg Limousin-sired bullock, out of a British Blue cow, was shown by the Fawcett family, of Kissthorn Farm, Sand Hutton, York, represented by Carl Fawcett and his three sons Edward, William and Jimmy. They acquired the title winner, also male champion, aged just under one-year-old from its breeders, the Dent family in Barnard Castle, and have since worked their magic on it at home.
