Homeward Bound

James and the calves have just left Stoneleigh for the journey home. It's been a long weekend for all of them, rewarded with a third, two fourths and a fifth in strong classes. I gather that calves who behaved impeccably at shows last summer played up a bit away from home. The Strickley herd was also well represented by Shaun Dixon's calf "Strickley Geri 15th, that though the youngest exhibit, took the Reserve Breed Championship. Perhaps we should never have sold it . . . .