Blue Reserve Champion for Wexford's Melvyn Masterson

One of this year's southern stars at Balmoral was born lucky.

Melvyn Masterson and Boroside Lemon pictured at this year's Balmoral Show. Picture: British Blue Cattle Society

It was a good year for southern cattle exhibitors at Balmoral Show.

Melvyn Masterson, a Belgian Blue breeder from Enniscorthy, Wexford, brought three animals to this year’s show, picked up Blue Reserve Champion, with his stand-out five-year-old cow in milk Boroside Lemon.