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2013 Cattle Champion

Photo credit: Ken Amer / Orkney Photographic

In 2013 the County Show’s best cattle exhibit was a 20-month-old Limousin cross heifer, named Amelie.

Amelie “did the double” that year – taking the victory at the Dounby Show and then the County show – for her owner, Liam Muir from Upper Onston, Stenness.

Amelie was homebred, and from the French bull Tehix and out of a British Blue cross.

The inter-breed cattle judge in 2013 was Neil Massie of Blelack, Dinnet, Aboyne – a pedigree Charolais, Aberdeen-Angus and Shorthorn breeder. He said that he wouldn’t normally have picked a cross-bred animal as the winner, but that she was “exceptional.”

He said: “She is an extremely attractive heifer, tremendous body on her, great length, correct in every phase about the animal – I really couldn’t fault the animal at all.”