2015 Cattle Champion

W.R. Baillie & Co of Biggings, Toab, secured victory at the 2015 County Show with their 14-month-old, homebred, Charolais bull, named Baillieston Joseph. The bull was sired by Blelack Digger and was out of the dam Baillieston Gretel.

The bull is pictured with Rognvald Baillie, from Biggings.

Jimmy McMillan, from Craigmore, Farnell, Brechin was that year’s inter-breed judge. He said of his champion: “As soon as the Charolais bull came in and walked around the ring, that was it.”

“I just liked everything about it; there was a good head to him, a good top, he was clean on his brisket, and he had a nice step down through his heart.”

“In his back end he was good over his plates; he had a nice, round, but not too big back end – I don’t like those bubbly back ends. He was very correct and he could move