Champions from Sunday
21st September 2025
Charollais Champion Lot 623
The champion Charollais at the NSA Wales & Border pre sale show is from the Roblestone Flock, Haverfordwest, bred by RG & RA Jones & Sons. Gareth Jones said the tup had been the first prize yearling at this year’s Royal Welsh Show. He is sired by Logie Durno Barbarian. The family have been selling at Builth from the earliest days of the sale. They run 100 pedigree Charollais ewes and a further 350 pedigree ewes. Last year the family took the highest priced Charollais of 3,500 guineas at the NSA Wales & Border Main Sale.
Judge Neil Alton was very impressed with both the champion and reserve, half brothers out of home bred ewes born in December 2023. He said: “It was a toss up between them really. You could have put them either way round. 623 was a lot cleaner, a better bodied sheep I thought, but it could have gone either way”.
Texel Champion Lot 2923 Teilo Texels
The Davies family had the champion Texel with one of the 12 yearling rams they brought to the NSA Wales & Border Main Sale. The family is renowned in Texel breeding and they run a flock of 25 pedigree ewes near Llandeilo. Each family member works off the farm and describe their sheep breeding as a ‘family hobby’. Cai Davies, a land agent, his wife, Sophie, student sister, Miri, his father, John Eirian, and mother, Lynwen, use embryo transfer. They are delighted to have won the championship. They have previously had a number of Reserves and a highest price of 5,200 guineas and have long supported the sale.
Blue Faced Leicester Lot 248 The Griffiths family comprising John and Llinos Davies and their sons Harry and Tom were delighted to take the Blue Faced Leicester championship. Their yearling ram had taken second in a strong class at the Royal Welsh Show. Harry said: “He has been a star at home from Day 1, but we didn’t really know how much of a star. He’s always been a favourite of ours.” The family run 35 pedigree Blue Faced Leicester ewes at Y Bwthyn, Ferryside, Carmarthen.
