Local Team Take the Title

07 Jul Local Team Take the Title

Forfar lift the Bibby Shield at East Rally 2025

The club were crowned overall champions at the event, held at Newhouse of Glamis by kind permission of the Adam Family.

The Rally (sponsored by Farming Partners, Farmlay and Harbro), was a great success, with members from 15 clubs from across the East Region gathering to compete and socialise in the Forfar sunshine.

There was a brilliant variety of competitions for members to get involved with on the day and it was great to see so many attendees trying their hand at multiple events across the three sections of Produce, Agri and Sports.

In the produce section, members showed off their culinary and artistic talents with a wonderful array of high-quality entries. The tables were brimming with baking, preserves and colourful refreshments. As well stacks of submissions for the photography competitions and beautifully presented Foursomes trays in the theme of ‘Scottish Summer Holiday’. The centre tables were reserved for the floral art submissions where members, on the day under the pressure of a time limit and the watchful eye of the judges had to create a display which incorporated a Sports Item. This led to some wonderfully inventive entries with flowers spilling out of balls, through rackets and even climbing up golf clubs.

The Agri events began with morning Stockjudging with three classes of sheep and 2 classes of cattle to judge and give reasons on. Members were then able to move through the other events on offer, these included valuation, fault finding, welding, identification, quad bike driving, setting up a Pratley (sheep handling system) and changing plough points. All before the agri business quiz and mock auction at the beginning of the afternoon.

As the afternoon heated up, the action moved out to the field for the Sports section of the day’s competitions. Competitiors battled through a series of races including the 100m sprint, 4x100m relay, the wheelbarrow race and the Sack Race (with 4 people to a wool bag). There was also a Tug of War competition and novelty classes including a ‘superhero’ themed fancy dress competition, egg toss competition and TP wedding dress making. The sports were rounded off with an epic Obstacle course relay, where competitors had to crawl under nets, splash through a makeshift pool and push a round bale to reach the finish line.

Many thanks to the Adam family for the use of their premises and for providing the bulk of the equipment and stock for the day. Thanks also to our event supporters, Farming Partners, Farmlay Eggs and Harbro Limited. And finally thanks to our judges and stewards for their hard work during the day and to the members of Angus Tayside District who assisted in set up and clean up.

Final Results can be seen below:

Produce Section

1^st and Winners of the Renilson Cup- Strathmore

2^nd– Strathearn

3^rd (Eq)- Banks of Tay, Forfar & Reston

Junior Stockjudging

1^st– Rebecca Hamilton, Strathmore (194)

2^nd– Charli Cochrane, Forfar (190)

3^rd– Stewart Hamilton, Strathmore (188)

Senior Stockjudging

1^st– Robbie Wills, Forfar (200)

2^nd– Alistair McCarthy, Forfar (198)

3^rd– Edward Scott, Forfar (196)

Agri Section

1^st-Forfar

2^nd– Bathgate

3^rd– East Fife

Sports

1^st– Peeblesshire

2^nd-Forfar

3^rd– Strathearn

Small Clubs

1^st and Winners of the Scot Watson Cup- Reston

2^nd– Banks of Tay

3^rd– Bankfoot

Overall

1^st and Winners of the Bibby Shield- Forfar

2^nd– Peeblesshire

3^rd– Strathmore