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Article: Limousin wins supreme show crown
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2006
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Competition and the weather both proved hot at Doune and Dunblane
Show.
Temperatures soared into the 80s at Central Scotland's biggest
agricultural show, making conditions heavy going for livestock and
their exhibitors.
Supreme in the cattle lines for the second year was the Limousin
leader from David and Ronald Dick, of Mains of Throsk, Stirling.
This one, the four-and-a-half-year-old cow, Ronick Tanita, by
Baliea Olympia and out of Ronick Janita, stood with her January-born
bull calf at foot. In 2003, she was junior champion at the Royal
Highland Show.
Tanita had earlier stood interbreed beef cattle champion for the
Dicks, who have 200 pedigree Limousin cows as well as 170 commercial
cows ...