FOR vendors at the sales, the pressure can be intense. Years of planning, caring, rearing and presenting the final product to the market is down to just a handful of minutes in the sale ring.

The passion of the breeder is matched by that of Henry Beeby when he takes up the gavel. I asked him if at any time during the past year he had been impacted personally by the pressures of conducting business in these pandemic times. He answered with great honesty.