Scottish National Fat Stock Club

Welcome to the home page of the Scottish National Fatstock Club. I am delighted and honoured to have been elected President at the AGM in April and looking forward to a good year for the Club.

The new Vice President is Gavin Scott, a great supporter of the Club, who is well known to most of the members while Murray Hardy from Scotbeef joins us as Junior Vice President this year.

We have also appointed a new Club secretary in Erika Hay, who will no doubt have been in touch with all the members by now. Erika has been involved with the Winter Fair since 2005 as Press Officer and will also continue in that role.

We are delighted to announce that Osmonds will continue as the main sponsor of our new look Royal Highland Winter Fair this year. Charles, Heather and Fiona Wilson have been fantastic supporters of the event through their Shropshire-based animal nutrition and veterinary supplies company.

Following the 2007 event some meetings were held between the Club and the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society with the outcome being a partnership between the two to run the 2008 Royal Highland Winter Fair.

This partnership will be beneficial to both organisations while the event will have the most to gain with two very experienced parties involved. We look forward to a great show on 26th November this year.

The Club is also hugely indebted to Scotbeef and Marks and Spencer who support our unique Premier Meat Exhibition. This year the live judging takes place at Perth Agricultural Centre, courtesy of the UA Group, on Wednesday 19th November while carcase judging and viewing is at Scotbeef, Bridge of Allan on Saturday 22nd November.

For the last two years the Native Pony Show has run in conjunction with the Clydesdale Horse Society’s Winter Fair which has made a great day out for horse and pony enthusiasts. This year the show takes place at Perth Agricultural Centre also on Saturday 22nd November.

I look forward to meeting many old friends and new faces at this year’s shows and hope you all find time to come to at least one of them and enjoy your day out.

Bruce Lang
President
Scottish National Fat Stock Club