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Over four days, 8000 animals and more than 200,000 people | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
will travel from all over the world to this secluded | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
This is the European agricultural event of the year! | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Hello, this is the fourth and final day of the Show. | :00:19. | :00:43. | |
the competition winners are building to a fantastic finale. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
So if guinea pigs who are therapeutic and goats with rococo | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
ringlets weren't enough, we have got to the fastest, most furious | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
competition of the show so far. I've got a good reason, Andi Oliver, | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
TV chef, has led me astray, You should be thanking me, | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
this is a wonderful Wales has some of | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
the best produce in the world, I am inspired, I cannot wait to get | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
cooking. I cannot wait to taste what Andi | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
cooks, that is if Gareth leaves me any, you may remember just | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
before the show up popped Welsh Black Cattle, before we get | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
onto your other job at the show, how has it | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
been as a breeder? We have really enjoyed ourselves, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
bit of a slow starter, then a 6, for the heifers, | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
then we went into the group of 3. You told me you are one of the show | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
vets. One How has that been, | :01:56. | :02:14. | |
from a veterinary point of view? This is the 12th year | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
I have been doing it, every year, people are amazed, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
these animals should be but they know that there is a vet | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
here, anything that is wrong, | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
they want to call us. This year in particular, | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
they have put in new fans, bigger fans, in the sheep shed, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
one of the earlier comments was, LAUGHTER Thank you very | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
much for joining us, Competitions continues in the sheep | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
shearing and in blacksmithing. Yesterday I popped along to the | :02:49. | :03:02. | |
farrier section to see a skill I have long admired. I know that you | :03:03. | :03:16. | |
cannot smell this but I had to say, I have been transported back to my | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
childhood, I grew up next to a farm, with a farrier, working practically | :03:23. | :03:23. | |
next door to my house. The smell of the furnace, the sound | :03:24. | :03:52. | |
of it, I just absolutely love it. These farrier | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
competitions are really important, aren't they, | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
for the profession. They are, we like to keep | :03:58. | :03:58. | |
the profession alive. Way that farriery is | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
progressing, with modern materials and horseshoes, | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
it is slowly dying out, the tradition of making | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
handmade horseshoes. What we have here now, people | :04:05. | :04:05. | |
starting off with this steel to make What we're trying to do | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
is replicate a horseshoe like this, and this will allow | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
the nail hall to sit and then this will be good | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
for all the hard roads they walk on. One thing I have to ask you, | :04:20. | :04:38. | |
there is a little bit of confusion about what is the | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
difference between being a farrier and a blacksmith, is there | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
a difference at all? There is, farriers only | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
work with horses, we are here for the welfare of horses | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
only, whereas blacksmiths will make anything, they'll make | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
hanging baskets... More decorative steel | :04:52. | :05:03. | |
forging skill, farriers. Whereas farriers, talk | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
about speed, horseshoes... I am, myself, I haven't | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
won anything yet, Now we have seen what a farrier can | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
do, it is the turn of | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
the blacksmith. When a job that I was doing came | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
to an end, They let me into the metal shop, | :05:26. | :05:40. | |
and I fell in love. I always say that I | :05:41. | :05:52. | |
work with the metal, I don't try to force the metal | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
to be something that I watch and see what the metal does, | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
and if you work like this, if you have an idea in your | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
head, it develops as you are going | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
on. What does the Royal Welsh do to you, | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
as a blacksmith, what does it do, it is an agricultural | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
show, isn't it. Yeah, it is showcasing what we do | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
within Wales, for me, You have got to share | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
what you do, and that is really good, if you go to a show | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
and see the entries of people, people working as blacksmiths, | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
jewellers, it is lovely to see all the different work | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
that people are doing. Perhaps we forget, how | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
important the blacksmith They were one of the only people | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
as well that good... There were two people | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
that could marry people, My connection with the | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
blacksmith thing, it is It is always about | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
forging people together. This is the face of a champion, | :06:53. | :07:07. | |
champion of champions, as far as the herd wicks | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
are concerned at this years show, interesting that compared to sheep, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
cattle and pigs, number of goats being shown here | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
is relatively small. I have been with the cattle, | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
I've seen the sheep and the horses, These have been judged, | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
any winners yet? This one has taken | :07:41. | :08:02. | |
best kid on both days. When I was a child, Lady Price | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
was around at Christmas... She came around, selling | :08:05. | :08:20. | |
boxes of apples, she came into the house and said, | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
this goat was given to us, I have got to go home now and kill | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
it and give it to the hounds! So I begged my mother | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
to let us have that, and even after that, | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
we brought it up, It has given you a lifelong | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
passion for keeping them? Well, I don't know, | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
it is a lot of expense! And you have had a very | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
successful show? I am pleased, I think my goats | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
are improving every year. Now, here's a conundrum, | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
an exotic looking animal that appears to have | :08:55. | :09:24. | |
an identity crisis. Fleece of a sheep but the ears | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
of a goat, so what is it, what is it doing on a hill | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
farm in mid-Wales? They are goats, they are angora | :09:30. | :09:45. | |
goats, they looked a little bit like that, because of the hair, they look | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
a little bit like sheep. Tanya Rogers and her dad, | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
were among the first farmers We were one of the foundation | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
farmers in the mid-1980s, Quite a risk, how did you know | :09:53. | :10:11. | |
they would be able to cope with the slightly more wet, | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
chilly conditions of Wales? I think he was not afraid, | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
as they say in the modern world, diversify, not afraid | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
to have a try of something. Mal's gamble with the angoras paid | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
off, producing a number of champion animals before passing | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
away last year. Did you feel pressurised that | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
you had to carry on his legacy? Absolutely happy, we have always had | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
goats, I have always shown goats, We have always had them, | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
it is part of a family Mal's passion has been | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
passed onto granddaughter, Erinna, who is now | :10:39. | :10:50. | |
a well-respected show judge. What would tell you that Daniel | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
is a goat worth showing? The mohair is really important, | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
you are looking for a nice curly ringlet, can you see how | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
fine that is... Like gossamer... | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
I'm going to pull a little... So that is my hair, there... | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
Looks about ten times thicker. It is going to be a bit | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
of an emotional year, this year. I cannot say any of us will ever be | :11:12. | :11:26. | |
a patch on walking in dad's shoes. We went reserve overall. I would not | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
like to shear one of them! Special guest today | :11:35. | :12:05. | |
is Chef Andi Oliver, and she is on the hunt for some | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
of the show's culinary delights. The Royal Welsh Show | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
is all about farming, and with Welsh food exports up 20%, | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
it's going to be exciting. I'm hitting the food hall | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
because I'm dying to see all this I don't think I've ever had cured | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
mutton. Flash, flash. Makes me dance, definitely good, | :12:26. | :13:00. | |
wonderful, also, this is all Welsh? All wealth, all born | :13:01. | :13:18. | |
and bred in Aberystwyth. This is a Welsh tea loaf, | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
a loaf with raisins, so thin. because I have seen | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
onion bhaji scotch egg. Delicious food made by passionate | :13:34. | :13:50. | |
people, definitely has me Still to come, how guinea pigs | :13:51. | :14:06. | |
became a cure for loneliness, and shear drama, as the Welsh | :14:07. | :14:21. | |
take on the Kiwis. this hall was full | :14:22. | :14:34. | |
of feathery things, now, by some sort of miracle, | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
it is full of furry things, This amazing looking snake | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
is Noodles, he is one of the competitors here today, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
he is a python, not everyone who is competing is hoping to win, | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
for some people, it is just the taking part that | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
is really important! VOICEOVER: Guinea pigs | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
are best-known these little beauties have helped | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
him through some difficult times. I was 24/7 in my house | :15:04. | :15:23. | |
with the wife looking He's supposed to be a sandy colour, | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
some judges like them darker, some lighter, you tend to get | :15:26. | :15:54. | |
the colour on the skin So they need that overall | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
exactly the same colour. Guinea pigs are rodents, | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
they have the splendid teeth. Shall we look at a very | :16:01. | :16:20. | |
splendid teeth? You've got to be careful | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
because some of them grow longer. Would it fair to say that it's | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
become a bit of an obsession? Do you think your wife would be | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
proud of what you've achieved Do you think of her a lot | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
when you're out there? If I didn't have them I don't | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
know what I'd do really. It keeps me occupied, | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
it keeps me in a hobby and I've How confident are you | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
about winning today? How many pigs did | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
you bring in the end? OK, well I think I might know | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
something that you don't know. Number 22, this wasn't | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
the one I cuddled was it? It's the one you had | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
on your lap all day. Now you told me when we were sitting | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
in your conservatory that the winning wasn't that | :17:38. | :17:49. | |
important, but when you do You know you're breeding | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
something which is good. Graham I'm absolutely | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
delighted at your win today. And is now let's go back to Andi, | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
is cooking up something delicious. You are now going to talk | :18:08. | :18:23. | |
to me about this oggie, I've been hearing all about this, | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
I'm not sure what and oggie is. Similar, similar but | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
slightly better, OK! Like everything this side | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
of the Severn Bridge. It's similar to the Cornish pasty, | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
it was designed to be A practical application | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
of something delicious. We're in Wales so we've got | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
to leeks, we've got onions. I'm going to use | :18:52. | :19:14. | |
executive decisions here. We've got onions, we've got leeks, | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
and we got lovely Welsh The oggie, again, because of working | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
in the ground people didn't have It really wouldn't matter | :19:24. | :19:37. | |
if their hands were dirty. The big crust around the oggie | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
was designed to be thrown away. When they said to me you're | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
going to be making an oggie, they said they wanted me | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
to make my own version. I thought, well, let's go a bit more | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
sort of almost Persian, we've got cinnamon, cumin | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
and chilies and then dates. There's a little | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
sweetness, a little heat. I like the look of that, | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
what do you think? There we go, three | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
weird shaped oggies. Kate and Gareth next time you see | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
these they'll be a golden delight. What do you do if you've | :20:31. | :20:50. | |
got a dirty cow? Anybody who knows anything | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
about rugby knows there is masses of competitive spirit in Wales, | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
particularly when they come It turns out that competitive spirit | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
is every bit as fierce in the shearing shed | :21:05. | :21:16. | |
as it is on the rugby field. Wales have an opportunity | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
here to beat New Zealand There's always a fierce | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
rivalry between Wales There's always a fierce | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
rivalry between Wales New Zealand on the left, | :21:28. | :21:43. | |
the champion John Kirkpatrick. Welsh team, on the left, Richard | :21:44. | :21:56. | |
Jones, in the middle, Rhian Evans. I've got Gareth here and he's | :21:57. | :22:17. | |
going to tell us exactly what's Whenever they see a Shearer having | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
to go back over himself, Once they've actually gone down | :22:21. | :22:34. | |
the ramp into the pens, the judges see how much | :22:35. | :22:46. | |
wool is left, how much And decide how much | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
to add on the points. Every 20 seconds ten points | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
are added to your score. The person with the most | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
points comes last. Now I understand how | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
the scoreboard works, thank you very much, | :23:02. | :23:02. | |
Gareth. CHEERING | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
were playing their part as well. But it's far from over because vital | :23:08. | :23:20. | |
points can be won or lost An important role in any shearing | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
contest is that of the judges. We need to be very vigilant | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
especially in an open competition or test because the shearers | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
are shearing so fast you need to be Between the victors and | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
the runner-up there are four points. The runners up, ladies | :23:46. | :24:04. | |
and gentlemen, are New Zealand. So congratulations to our | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
shearing champions, Wales! And here are some more | :24:10. | :24:21. | |
of today's winners. It's fantastic, it's | :24:22. | :24:40. | |
what breeders aim for. Can't do any more | :24:41. | :24:41. | |
now, it's brilliant. Many many congratulations | :24:42. | :24:57. | |
to all of them. If you were watching | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
at the beginning of the week you will remember I met chief | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
executive of the show Steve Hewson. Can I say I met you before | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
there was any infrastructure in here It's the end of day four and you're | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
still looking remarkably calm and quite clean | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
which I wasn't expecting. I dressed up specially | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
for you obviously. All the work is done | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
in advance of the show. We have to troubleshoot like any | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
event, things go wrong. I'm calm because we've had a really | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
great successful show. 25 years you've been | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
coming here on holiday, have you booked to go | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
to Marbella next year? I'd never let this man down nor | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
the people of Wales, Andi, welcome to this | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
mad, mad world. First I had no idea of the scale | :25:47. | :25:58. | |
of it, it's absolutely huge, it's like a whole town | :25:59. | :26:08. | |
in itself, isn't it? So many people, everybody's | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
been lovely, the produce is quite breathtaking, | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
I've got to say. This is oggie with mint and potatoes | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
and leeks and onions. I decided to warm it up | :26:24. | :26:37. | |
so I added cumin and cinnamon It is cutting well, | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
it's cutting well. While we tuck in I want | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
to say an enormous thank We're going to leave you with | :26:49. | :27:02. | |
memories of a fantastic four days. | :27:03. | :27:05. |