Uplands Batman was shown successfully  winning Champion and Interbreed Champion at Cumberland Show in 1990 and Male Champion at the Great Yorkshire Show in 1989, as well as numerous local show successes.

In 1996 Batman was sold at the age of 10 to Buriton Estates, Keith Barnett’s farm in Petersfield, only a few miles from his birthplace. However in May 1999 Batman dislocated his hip and had to be put down.  Today if you get invited to shoot at Buriton and you draw Peg 1 on the first drive you will stand by a little patch of wild meadow flowers - there lies Batman.

Batman has sired many top quality females in the Lodge herd, the top won being Lodge Ella out of Ravelaw Abigail who won Reserve Female Champion at the Royal Show in 1992 and Breed Champion at the Great Yorkshire and Cumberland shows in 1992.  She was sold for 8,500gns in 1993 to Mr Les Wilson.

Other typical Batman daughters in the Lodge herd were Lodge Jergie, Lodge Hockey and Lodge Harmony, whose descendants, like Lodge Piccolo, are some of the top breeding cows in the Lodge herd today.  A  Batman grand-daughter Sarkley Dominica by Rocky was recently sold for 8,000gns at the Sarkley young stock sale in November 2009.

Talent

Laird

Princesse

Sultane

Lumiere

Ogli

Pacha

Moka

Brindille

Farandole

Festin

Nitouche

Sans Peu

Orgie

Delicieuse

Homelie

Banane

Delicat

Mammouth

Figuier

Attila was imported as a yearling calf from France in September 2006 from Cathy Patureau, who has bred of a number of influential bulls used today in the UK for example Jacot, Rossignol, Rocky, Requin (Bailea Herd), Saphir (Emslies Herd), Silex (Dunlops), Paul (Glangwen Herd), Titan (Oddacres Herd) and Vivaldi who are all excelling in breeding cattle with exceptional shape.

Attila’s grandmother Delicieuse was also the grandmother of Requin, sire of Bailea Umandy.

Attila to date has sired less than 50 pedigree and commercial calves and already they are making a name for themselves (although the majority of them are still under a year old):

Poker Face sired by Attila out of a Belgian Blue cross Limousin cow and bred by Christopher Dick was sold to Melanie & Michael Alford at the Caledonian calf sale in September 2009 for £1500 (aged only 9 months).  Poker Face has since done exceptionally well for the Alford’s winning Baby Beef Champion at both the English Winter Fair and the Welsh Winter Fair in 2009, and Reserve Baby Beef Champion at the Scottish Winter Fair and Smithfield 2009.  She was described by the judge at the Welsh Winter Fair as “a tremendous heifer, showy and stylish and hard to fault”.