In 2002 the Guernsey in the shape of Tiresford Daphne 3 was the Interbreed Champion at both UK Autumn Shows, and in the report written after those events I predicted that we would not have to wait another 20 years for the feat to be repeated as it was in 1982 that the previous Guernsey Interbreed Championship had been achieved.

Fortunately one of my predictions has come true (I haven't checked my Lottery numbers yet) and I was delighted to find out on Tuesday at a Guernsey meeting that I attended, having returned from the USA on Monday afternoon that the Warren family from Tredinney Farm, St Buryan, Penzance had won the Interbreed Championship at the Stithians Show in Cornwall. This show is keenly contested  by all of the Dairy Breeds in Cornwall and attracts more than 20,000 visitors on the one day of the show.

It is a show that I try to attend annually but was in Canada at the time, but the homebred Tredinney Yogis Gabrielle 2 H88 on her re-emergence as a second calver was the cow that made history as the first Guernsey in living memory to win at Stithians.

She will hopefully reappear at the Dairy Show in October and may then follow in Daphnes footsteps and become the third Guernsey to win there in the thirty years of that show.

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