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Royal Highland Show preview: Team effort behind family's showing success

It takes a certain amount of devotion to exhibit dairy cattle at events like the Royal Highland Show, but when the whole family enjoy the experience, it makes the effort worthwhile.

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Alistair and Wendy Padkin and their three boys, Callum, 14, Ewan, 12 and six-year-old Harris.
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Alistair and Wendy Padkin and their three boys, Callum, 14, Ewan, 12 and six-year-old Harris.

For the Padkin family, this team mentality extends further than the show ring and very much starts at home on Drumcork Farm, at Thornhill, near Dumfries. Here they have essentially developed a system...

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