UP and coming pig breeder Louise Findlay took the reserve overall championship at Skipton mart's annual Christmas primestock show and sale.
The 14 year-old from Coverdale was reserve with her second prize trio of 85kg+ pure-bred Pietrain. Out of a home-bred sow by a boar bred by David Pawson, Blackburn, each weighed 90kg and sold for £135 per head to Anthony Swales of Knavesmire Butcher's Shop, York.
Louise, a pupil at St Francis Xavier Secondary School in Richmond, only has three sows but was also first and third in the lightweight trios. Her 69kg and 90kg trios also fell to Mr Swales.
The overall champions were a trio of home-bred Pietrain pigs from JG Bamforth & Son, Slaithwaite. Shown by Matthew Bamforth, the first prize winners in the 85kg+ show class, each weighing exactly 100kg, were all by the same boar, bred near York by 2014 English Winter Fair victor Mark Horsley, and all out of the same Bamforth sow.
West Yorkshire butcher and show judge John Summers, bought them for the day's £185 top price.
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