THE reserve supreme sheep champion butchers lambs went to a pair of home-bred Beltex cross lambs from Hannah Brown, of Leyburn.

It was the fifth time she and her parents, Martin and Val Brown, of Newton-le-Willows, had been runners-up.

The same pair, weighing 94kgs, were also reserve champions in the Continental pair of lambs class.

The supreme championship went to David and Linda Wadland, of Daventry, who won the same title in 2012.

This year's winners were a pair of March-born pure-bred Beltex, which will go on to the English Winter Fair.

Sheep judge Adrian Roberts said: "The winners were a prime example of today's requirement for lamb. They were an excellent pair – 120 per cent – and something very special.

"The standard has been a credit to all the exhibitors. I have been really impressed over the two days of the show."

Another local winner was Ken Flintoft, of Westonby Farm, Egton, and two spring-born Scottish Blackface males that were native longwool champions. The runner-up was Keith Porteous, of Bolton-on-Swale, Richmond.

A good crowd supported the young handlers classes in the sheep section.

The overall winner was Max Clough, 13, from Stape, Pickering, who was showing one of his family's Dutch Texel ewe lambs. He won the same title in 2010 and 2012 and has his own flock of ten British Rouge de l'Ouste.

His brother, Jake, 11, was third, and Miss S Hughes, 11, of Angram, York, was second.

Runner-up overall young handler was Jack Whiteford, eight, from Brampton, Cumbria.

He and his twin sisters, Abbie and Jessica, aged four, were showing Black Texel lambs called "Sooty" and "Sheepish". They were placed joint third with Harvey Heath, eight, of Ashbourne, second.