LIVESTOCK owners from Gwent came away with championship rosettes from this year’s Royal Welsh Show.

Abergavenny Welsh cob breeder Jonathan Batt was the most successful of the home-grown talent, picking up three titles with star broodmare Abergavenny Morning Queen.

The 26-year-old was delighted to have picked up the Prince of Wales’ Cup with his pride and joy, fulfilling a long-held dream for the young man and his family.

But the success in Builth Wells did not stop there, with the Welsh cob putting her best hooves forward on Thursday to collect The Tom and Sprightly Perpetual Cup and becoming the Welsh cob supreme female.

“We will remember this show forever, we have been working towards this for 30 years and we have finally conquered the dream,” Mr Batt said.

A few miles down the road there were also smiles on the faces of the Trumper family, whose pig, Beiliau Guardsman, came runner-up in the British Saddleback competition.

Sally Trumper, whose husband, Martyn, 48, and father-in-law, Maurice, 79, run the family farm between Abergavenny and Usk, said they were happy to have picked up a prize for one of the pigs.

They took seven of the animals to the show to compete, along with a sow and piglets.