112 | SHOWS
Rebel kicks on at Devon County Making the long journey from Northumberland worthwhile, Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks KS R12 was interbreed champion at the 2021 Devon County Show. Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks KS R12 from Tom and Di Harrison, Mickley, Northumberland was selected by judge Colin Hutchings, Dulverton, Somerset as interbreed champion at Devon County Show, pipping a Limousin heifer to the top spot. Also taking the breed championship, the bull already had 2021’s Royal Highland Showcase native interbreed title to its name and stood interbreed junior bull at the Royal Welsh Show in 2019. Born in April 2018, it is by Danish-bred SMH King Size 87K, the 2019 sire of the year and out of Romany 1 Dawn D1 M6. With a string of accolades to its name, Rebel Kicks was named joint poll bull of the year and reserve bull of the year in 2019.
Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks KS R12 from T and D Harrison the reserve breed and female champion titles. April 2019-born, Pippa is another by the prolific SMH King Size 87K which does so well for the Harrisons. 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. Keith noted the heifer was ‘really lovely’, being ‘very classy’.
Reserve female champion was selected as Moralee 1 Kylie KS T29, again from the Harrisons. Another King Size daughter, it is out of Moralee 1 Kylie, which is out of the Harrisons’ original Kylie female. Kylie KS T29 is a full sister to Kylie KS S11 which was overall champion at the Christmas Calf Show at Shrewsbury in 2019, and junior champion at the National Poll Show in the same year.
Tasked with the Hereford judging, Keith Jempson, Banbury, Oxfordshire described the bull as ‘fantastic’, being full of style and fleshing, with a tremendous temperament and being good on its legs. Success was also had in the exhibitorbred group of three championship for the Northumberland breeders, with Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks taking the reserve position with stable mates Moralee 1 Pippa KS S11 and Moralee 1 Kylie KS T29. Moralee 1 Pippa KS S11 had already won
Moralee 1 Pippa KS S11 from T and D Harrison
