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PICTURES: Round-up of the best images from memorable Grantown Show





The organisers admitted they struck gold as a rare sunny day in the past month drew out a paying crowd of around 4200 people for a bumper Grantown Show.

After a miserable July and early August, the Strathspey Farmers’ Club was blessed with great weather for the biggest event in the farming calendar in Badenoch and Strathspey.

This year’s show was also a double celebration with the club hosting the national Scottish Jacob sheep show and marking 100 years of the Highland Pony Society.

Show president Scott Pirie said: “Last year I thought I had struck gold with the weather but this year I have again. I went and bought myself a show jacket – I have never had one in my life before – but that’s two years that it has been hanging in my wardrobe because of the great weather.

"We must be the luckiest show on the farming circuit – we have to be!”

Aberdeen Angus heifer Newton-Struthers Espresso was the show’s star with the home-bred 15-month-old Aberdeen Angus cow belonging to A & K Rhind & Son, of Newton of Struthers, Kinloss, being crowned champion of champions .

The show’s guest of honour, Highland councillor Glynis Sinclair, Provost of Inverness, picked out the supreme cattle champion after taking some advice from livestock veteran judge Harold Murray, from Turriff.

Check out our picture gallery capturing the spirit of the day.


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