198 | ASSOCIATIONS AND CLUBS
Native interbreed for Rebel Kicks An exhibitors-only show in place of the usual Ingliston fixture, the Royal Highland Showcase saw Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks KS R12 stride into the native interbreed champion position. Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks KS R12 from Tom and Di Harrison, Mickley, Northumberland impressed at the Royal Highland Showcase, an exhibitors-only show in place of the usual Ingliston fixture. Dubbed the ‘ringside favourite’, it was tapped out as native interbreed champion, the highest accolade it could achieve due to the event’s format.
Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks KS R12 from T and D Harrison
Born in April 2018, Rebel Kicks is no stranger to the limelight having won the interbreed junior bull championship at the Royal Welsh Show in 2019. By Danish-bred SMH King Size 87K, the 2019 sire of the year, it is out of Romany 1 Dawn D1 M6 and was awarded poll bull of the year and joint bull of the year in 2019. Semen from the bull is available for private purchase. Tasked with judging, Abbie Anderson of Panmure Herefords, Arbirlot, Tayside commended the bull for its locomotion and balance, having also named it her senior male and male champion. Moralee 1 Pippa KS S11 also performed for owners and breeders Tom and Di Harrison and was named reserve breed champion, having already taken female and senior female champion earlier that day and made up one half of the reserve champion native pair alongside Rebel Kicks.
Moralee 1 Pippa KS S11 from T and D Harrison April 2019-born, it is yet another by the prolific SMH King Size 87K which does so well for the Northumberland-based breeders. It is out of Coley 1 Pippa 356 which stood breed champion at the Royal Highland in 2017, a daughter of Australian sire, Days Calibre G74 daughter.
Reserve female and leading the junior female class was 13 month Harveybros 1 Crocus Tiara from father and daughter team George and Sophie Harvey, Balfron, Glasgow. From the family’s renowned Crocus family, it is by Normanton 1 Laertes, which stood interbreed champion at the Highland in 2016.
