Forum moves to Spruce Meadows for a wow factor experience

The forum has now moved to Spruce Meadows which can only be described as “wow what a place to host the World Forum.” From its immaculate lawns to the impressive grandstands and barns the place is truly amazing.

The first day saw the Futurity show in which all the cattle that were shown were 2 years old and they had to be shown for the last two years at shows across Canada and be class winners each year to qualify for this year.

We saw a very good show of cattle with all the heifers being shown with calves at foot and being judged as a pair. There were three judges for each the Black and the Red Angus with John Tilson from Wedderlie being one of the Black Angus judges.

John Tilson from Wedderlie judging the Black Angus

All six judges were kept a secret until they walked into the ring to judge the first class, the judges each judged the cattle and place them all with 1st place receiving one point and so on, so the animal with the lowest points won the class.

As you can imagine the Canadians put on a great show with music playing at times and an announcer keeping us informed to what was happening in each ring. The Champion Black Female was Belvin Lady Blossom 2′07 from wait for it James Arnott, Coul Angus from the UK. What a great achievement for James to win this show with a heifer he bought last year in Canada. This balanced heifer was by Belvin Rebel.

Belvin Lady Blossom

Reserve Female was DMM Blackcap Essence 23T from the Miller Wilson herd that we visited first on our tour. This heifer with a good calf at foot was by DMM Dimension 108N.

In the bulls the champion came from another well known herd to us Youngdale with a big powerful son of SAV Net Worth called Youngdale Worth Alot 49T.

Champion bull Young Dale Worth Alot

The reserve came from Eastondale Angus with Eastondale Break Away who is sired by Hyline Right Way.

Over in the Red Angus ring there was an outstanding show of Red Angus Females which were well fleshed and on average bigger than the Black Heifers. Their winner was Six Mile Red Angus with Red Six Mile Bayberry and reserve was Soo-Line Cattle Co with Red Soo Line Annie. These were two good heifers and would have stood up well at any show in the UK.

Red Six Mile Bayberry - champion Red Angus female

In the Red bulls Champion and Reserve were from the same exhibitors as the females with Red 6 Mile full Throttle and Red Soo Line Momentum being Champion and Reserve.

Champion Red Angus bull Red Six Mile Full Throttle

After the show we had time to look at the cattle in the barns before the sale started I didn’t manage to stay for it all as we had to go and get changed for the opening Gala Dinner and also the Auctioners are very much slower over here with only about 12 an hour being sold. I hope David Leggat doesn’t think that is the way to go at Stirling.

The sale was good with many lots making over $10,000 the top was for the pick of the Belvin 2009 calf crop and this made $32,500 to James Arnott Coul Angus, as his pick he has chosen the Argentinean heifer calf that I liked at Belvin which is pictured from that day so good luck James with your purchase and congratulations on winning the Angus Futurity.