Press Release - Prize List
The Iverk Show Prize List 2016 was launched last week. Another year in the life of the Iverk Show means this is the 190th year since it was first launched in 1826. Great credit must go to the members of the committees down through the years for keeping it going sometimes against all the odds.
And this year’s show on the 27th August promises to be the biggest and best ever. There will be something for everyone, old and young. There will be new events and all the familiar favourites continue as usual.
Now in fourth year and already established as one of the biggest cattle competitions in the country is the Aldi, ABP sponsored Irish Angus bull calf championships.
The show jumping Grand Prix heads an impressive programme of competitions and will be sponsored for the first time by Nissan. The working hunter class has a major face lift thanks to the breeding grant from Horse Sport Ireland.
The Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Racehorse to Riding Horse Ireland 2016 final is a new championship. It brings together many of our favourite race horses from recent years that have now been retrained as riding horses.
The flower arranging and Red Mills poultry sections are always worth seeing. The flowers and the vegetables are looking extremely well in the garden - the recent warm weather followed by the rain has been great for them. The big onions and giant pumpkins are growing well.
The arts and crafts section gets bigger and bigger every year especially the children’s section. The sight and odours coming from the baking display make one’s mouth water.
The Iverk Produce Great Cherry Cake competition annually has around 100 entries. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if there were 190 entries this year?
Speaking about 190 we will have an Iverk Show History Project display for the first time. There will be fascinating old photographs and reports to browse over. If you have anything of interest please let us know. Combined with the vintage section it promises to be a wonderful display.
Reading the Prize List for the 1932 show I noted there were there were nine classes for different varieties of dessert apples and 10 for cooking apples.
You will find the full show Prize List on our website www.iverkshow.ie. Make sure you put the 27th August in your diary now – a day not to be missed.
