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200,000 people from all over the world. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
8,000 animals of all shapes and sizes, 150 acres | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Welcome to the biggest and best agricultural show in Europe. | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
It's day three and the most eagerly anticipated day | :00:19. | :00:46. | |
of the show because this is Welsh Cob Day, | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
and some of the most beautiful horses you will see will do battle | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
for one of the show's most prestigious prizes. | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
You also have hounds, and the sheepdogs will show off their | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And no Welsh line-up would be complete without Gareth Wyn Jones. | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
I'm back amongst the cattle for the big competition, | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
the team of five, when even the judges will be judged. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
And comedian Omar Hamdi has been burning the midnight oil. | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
I guess these guys will get a much better night's sleep than me | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
because I'm not going to bed, I'm going offsite after dark. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
And you can keep up with the action of the show. | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
A lot of the farmers who come here treat it | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
But it's something of a Busman's holiday. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
And this could be called the farmers' toy department. | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
You can find machines that will almost do all the work for you. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
On first view, it looks like a tractor that has | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
It's all different tractors for different causes. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
This is 200 horsepower and is designed to steer itself. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
You have this yellow dome connected to the top. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
It will steer itself to an accuracy of two centimetres. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Will the day arrive that you could be sitting in your living | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
room watching TV with a computer game and letting your | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
The days of levers and linkages are going. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
Everything is controlled by this computer screen. | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
Extraordinary, and could you watch a movie if you wanted to? | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
All you need now is a butler and a fridge. | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
We can't do anything about the butler, but we do | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
If there was a tractor that could do housework, I might be tempted! | :03:16. | :03:41. | |
It turns out it's not just animals that can win prizes here. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
You're the machinery prizewinner at the Royal Welsh Show this year. | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
We did have a nice big shiny trophy, but we had to give it back. | :03:56. | :04:08. | |
We only had it for half an hour, it was very nice. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Let's talk about this winning piece of equipment. | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
This is a front-end loader and it goes on the front | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
But I happen to know there are plenty of front loaders | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
that go on the front of tractors, so what makes this prize-winning? | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
We're really honoured to get this prize. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
This product is the culmination of five years and ?30 | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
The key to that was trying to develop something | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
for the future that saves the farmer money and improves | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
That sounds like it definitely deserves a prize. | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
From a spectacular front-loader to somebody with an awful lot | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
The horses here come in all different shapes and sizes - | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Whilst there are all kinds of horses to be seen here, | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
the show is best known for being the ultimate showcase | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
The smallest of these is the Welsh Section A, | :05:22. | :05:33. | |
Section C, Welsh pony of cob type is next. | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
Section D, the Welsh cob, is the Welsh largest section - strong | :05:45. | :05:58. | |
They take centre stage at the Royal Welsh Show on Wednesday. | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
Showing his Welsh cobs today is Jonathan, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Jonathan, a massive day for the cobs today. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
We have all the mares and the stallions, which will | :06:12. | :06:22. | |
The Main Ring will be five deep waiting for the cob stallions. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
The mares are a very big spectacle and some of the best will be | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
she contracted a very bad virus within her stomach | :06:30. | :06:49. | |
and she was due to be sold but because of illness, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
she was not allowed because she was not well enough | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
to go to the sales and she stayed at home, and we have been very | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
The last three years, she has competed at the Royal Welsh Show | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
We all love her so much, she has put us on the map. | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
The show everybody wants to win is the Royal Welsh Show. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Fantastic, and really good luck to you today. | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Jonathan, you have just come out of the Main Ring, how did it go? | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
Fantastic, she was fourth out of 45 mares, fantastic entry | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
of mares, very pleased with the result. | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
It takes a lot to exhibit a successful Welsh cob | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
and a lot to be a judge, as today's Judge Daniel Morgan | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Kate went to meet him before the show. | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
When you see a Welsh cob in action, you understand why they are such | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
It takes decades of experience to produce an animal like this. | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
I feel like I'm in the presence of The Queen! | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
This is Gorgeous Lady, she is seven years of age. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
For Daniel Morgan, breeding cobs is in his blood. | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Yes, since I was that small, I have seen them. | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
It is a quintessentially Welsh animal. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Yes, it is, it has got to be beautiful, eye-catching. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
And the presence of the animal when she goes into the ring, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
or the stallion goes into the ring, captivates you straightaway. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
And they do have this wonderful physical presence, don't they? | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Looking at the shape of her, it feels like it's all about power. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Yes, she has a wide chest and a good quarter as well. | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
Daniel is the third generation of his family to judge at the show | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
and he told me that looks aren't everything, it's also | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
That was quite an acrobatic display, have you got your breath back? | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
This is The Queen of the Park, she's 24 years of age now. | :09:20. | :09:42. | |
She has had her coat again this year and... | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
A beautiful, elegant animal, and I could not resist taking | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
I might need to go and have a little lie down. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
That was an unforgettable day, and someone who has had | :09:57. | :10:09. | |
an unforgettable night is Omar Hamdi. | :10:10. | :10:25. | |
As you can see, the show is well and truly over for another night, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
but I have heard there are a lot of people who will be here late | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
until the early hours, I am going to find them. | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
It is gone midnight and all the cattle sort of are falling | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
asleep and a lot of farmers are around them having a party. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
I thought they would be fully asleep by now, | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
They are settled and chilled out and relaxing. | :10:50. | :11:02. | |
Last year, we had a great time, the year before that, we had a great | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
So what does this mean to people like you who are regular showgoers? | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
It is a holiday for me, it is not just for farmers, | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
We will all be up until about four o'clock and away we go. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
I will be sleeping with her tonight, just checking everything goes | :11:18. | :11:31. | |
It is unbelievable how comfortable that animal and that person | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
We will catch up with Omar's night-time adventure later, | :11:35. | :11:49. | |
but I am in the food hall in search of Gareth Wyn Jones. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Now, I thought I was the grandest person you knew! | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
Apparently, that is not so, you have been hobnobbing with royalty. | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
I went to meet the Prince of Wales, Kate. | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
We had a long chat about local produce and traditional ways | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
of farming and he was just so supportive. | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
I offered him some of my lamb, do you know what he said? | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Young man, send me some of that mutton down! | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
The Royals, as you know, have had a long association | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
There is nobody from the Royal Family here this year, | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
but it is not called the Royal Welsh Show | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
There has been a Royal connection with the show since 1907, | :12:40. | :12:56. | |
when George Prince of Wales agreed to become the patron. | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
The George Prince of Wales Cup is still a coveted prize today, | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
awarded for the best Welsh cob at the show. | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
King Edward VII was also a regular visitor to the early shows, | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
competing with his Hereford cattle, although he often left | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
It would take until 1922 until the Welsh Show was awarded | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Royal patronage and became the Royal Welsh Show. | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Thw 1947 Royal Welsh at Carmarthen welcomed a young Princess Elizabeth | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
for the first time and The Queen remains the patron today. | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Since the show settled in its permanent home | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
at Builth Wells in 1963, the Royal family have | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
The Royal Welsh Show brings people together - | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
royalty, landowners, farm owners, tenants and farm | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
workers, coming together to celebrate agriculture and rural | :13:34. | :13:34. | |
Still to come: We've got a beauty contest for cattle. | :13:35. | :13:59. | |
Omar braves the Young Persons' Village. | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
And we find out which Welsh cob trots away with today's prize. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Somebody else who hasn't just made his family proud, | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
but the whole Welsh country, is Kevin, who came second | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
in the World Sheepdog Trials in Holland last week. | :14:16. | :14:38. | |
That looked like a very efficient round, Kevin, will you win today? | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
But things went well and we are just waiting for the judges. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Being on the world stage, as you were last week, | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
We travelled to Holland and there were 240 of the best dogs | :14:51. | :15:02. | |
in the world and I was lucky to come second. | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
I know you are a border collie man and most people when they think | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
of herding dogs they picture these lovely, little, spry dogs. | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
But most herding nations have their own indigenous herding | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
dogs and I have to say, and I know Kevin disagrees, | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
that the Welsh sheepdog is amongst the finest. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
It is the most beautiful partnership between human | :15:27. | :15:52. | |
and animal that I know, but four years ago I would | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
never, ever have dreamt that I could do this. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
There is one person who has really helped me get my head around | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
For farmer Adeline Jones no other breed can compare | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
They have got a history that goes back hundreds of years. | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
The other is that they are immensely practical. | :16:23. | :16:36. | |
You can work with sheep or cattle or pigs. | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
What is it that actively makes these dogs Welsh sheepdogs? | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
It is the fact they are upright on their feet and they are very | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
mobile and they can be vocal and not that stalking, fixed stare | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
I know you have got some young dogs here today. | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
Can we have a look at them showing off? | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
I would love to show them off, but I cannot necessarily tell | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
That is the other thing about the Welsh collie. | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
Is it Saffy, the little young black and white one? | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
She will turn in with her mouth, but she is not biting. | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
They look like they are enjoying themselves and having a good time. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
But seeing Welsh sheepdogs work like this is still a rare sight. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
At one stage the breed was close to dying out. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
When the society was started, 20 years ago in 1997, they found 66 | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
Now we have got just about 2500 which we have bred over 20 years. | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
But as far as farmers are concerned, these are really good, | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Certainly, I would not be without them. | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
They are just very special working dogs. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
The Welsh Sheepdog Society celebrates its 20th anniversary this | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
year and it is thanks to its work that these wonderful dogs | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
will remain a feature of this rural landscape for many | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
The show is an enormously important social event for farmers of all ages | :18:21. | :18:33. | |
and when darkness falls there is just one place to be | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
and that is the Young People's village, as Omar discovered. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
I didn't know exactly what that meant, the Young People's Village. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
It is a village in the middle of nowhere devoted to young people | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Scott, you are here at the Royal Welsh. | :18:50. | :18:59. | |
This is one of my favourite gigs that I do all year. | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
I do a lot of freshers' gigs, students all the year-round, | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
but this is literary travelling miles and it takes about four | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
hours and you get around the corner and it is all here. | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
What is it that keeps drawing you back year after year? | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
It is the energy of the crowd, it is 5000 young people. | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
You can play anything and they love it, it is a proper party crowd. | :19:32. | :19:48. | |
Omar, I am impressed, you have gone native. | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
It was brilliant, I was drinking a lot of coffee but it was amazing. | :19:52. | :20:03. | |
I was on stage DJing with Scott Mills, it | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
And the first time ever at the show, did it change your expectations? | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
Yes, it did, I like goats more than I thought I would. | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Do you think you will be back next year? | :20:20. | :20:38. | |
Definitely, I have already booked it. | :20:39. | :20:39. | |
Thank you for being with us and undertaking that midnight mission. | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
One of the most unusual competitions is the team of five. | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
One of the highlights of the show for me every year | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
is this competition, the beef cattle team of five. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
The breed judge chooses the five best matching animals | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
It is from all the entries at the show and not all | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
This is a real clash of the Titans and someone who is an expert in this | :21:03. | :21:17. | |
To make a team it is important there is at least one male or one | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
female in the group, so you could have a combination | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
of four females and one male, or four males and one female | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
It is up to the breed judge to match these and this | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
It must be even and that is what happened when the three judges | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
It is not a question of individual animals, it is the team. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
There are a lot of cattle here at the moment. | :21:52. | :22:06. | |
There are 75 animals here representing 15 breeds | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
which we are glad to see, but we have also got our native | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
We have also got the beef shorthorns and they go back to 1882. | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
We have also got the Continental cattle in here which are represented | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
It will be exciting to watch this climax. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Everybody will be on their toes towards the end. | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
It is a very hard job, but he will line them up at the end | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
and get them down to eight and then down to four groups and then down | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
to two groups and then he will decide the champions | :22:46. | :23:00. | |
and the reserve and that will be our climax today. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
He has already picked four teams and he will select his champion | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
This is really exciting and there is a massive crowd here. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
We have just come to the climax and the Charolais have won it | :23:15. | :23:31. | |
It is like winning the World Cup in Rugby. | :23:32. | :23:47. | |
This is such a popular competition where the crowd and the atmosphere | :23:48. | :24:19. | |
When the winner is announced a mare called Trevelyan Rosanna, | :24:20. | :24:31. | |
My goodness, something tells me this might be the winning corner. | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
Can you tell me what has just happened? | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Nelson has won it and he is a lifelong friend and everybody loves | :24:43. | :24:54. | |
him. And now it is time to meet | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
the winner of the George And here she is, | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
our triumphant winner and triumphant breeder, | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Nelson. Congratulations, she | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
is a beautiful mare. Our dams produced several champions | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
and when she was born and she was a foal, I knew | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
she was going to be The looks, the way she moved, | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
everything about her. What we did, at Christmas I gave it | :25:31. | :25:44. | |
to him as a Christmas present, that was his Christmas present, | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
Dean, his mare, and he is the owner. And you did all the hard work | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
and the running around in the ring. When you are on a stage like this | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
at the Royal Welsh Show, It feels like you are floating, | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
like it is not real. When you came out here today, | :26:00. | :26:17. | |
did you have any sense that you might be walking away with one | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
of the most important prizes of the whole | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
of the Royal Welsh Show? We always thought she was good | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
enough to win it, and when Grandad gifted it to me he said she would be | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
good enough to win I am absolutely delighted | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
for all of you. Do you think her foal can | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
be a future champion? I think she will, you will see | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
her at a future show. Watch this space, this could be | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
a future winner of the George, Let's now go to some | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
of our other winners from today. # Lightning, this | :26:48. | :27:05. | |
is what you came for. # Lightning strikes | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
every time she moves. # And she is looking | :27:10. | :27:11. | |
cool, cool, cool. # Lightning, this is what you came | :27:12. | :27:31. | |
for. # Lightning, strikes every time she | :27:32. | :27:32. | |
# Lightning, strikes every time she moves. | :27:33. | :27:41. | |
# And she is looking cool, cool, cool, cool. | :27:42. | :27:56. | |
That is all we have got time for today but we will be back | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
tomorrow for the fourth and final day. | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
I am up at the sheep shearing shed and we have got | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
a fantastic competition between New Zealand and Wales. | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
I will be meeting some goats who seriously have a hairstyle | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
to compete with mine and fabulous foodie Andi Oliver will be | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
raiding the food hall and putting up a storm. | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
the food hall and cooking up a storm. | :28:30. | :28:32. |