Kundle Park Saint was second in the heavyweight class.
Clients of Col & Lorna McGilchrist of Back Creek Limousins have had a successful year in the show ring with the stud adding breeding the supreme carcase at the Scone Beef Bonanza to their list of achievements this year.
The steer was sold as Lot 37 at the annual Glen Innes potential steer sale in March and the steer judge, Steve Martin, purchased him for Wellington High.
The steer sold for $14/kg ($3700) and was sired by a homebred bull, Back Creek Payabull (Harlees Mr Jock) out of a Mandayen cow. The steer went on to win the champion led steer at Wellington, Dubbo and Warren shows as well as being reserve champion at the national all breeds JNR heifer show.
At Bonanza the steer was 2nd in the led section but easily won the supreme carcase with a massive 91.36 points, receiving $4,905 in prize money. Wellington High school agricultural teacher, Rob Dimmick feedlots 10 steers at a time with roughly 20 -25 being shown by the school each year.
He said that they focus on good quality carcase cattle and that Limousins have a big part to play in achieving that.
The school has purchased Limousin steers from the Blue Ribbon sale in Toowomba, The Glen Innes sale and most recently the Golden Opportunity Cattle sale at Coonamble.
Wellington High was just one of the many schools to target purchasing Limousin steers for competition at Scone. Another school that invests heavily in Limousins is Scots All Saints College at Bathurst. Libby Dawes, the director of agriculture for the school, has been building the school herd for many years. The Scots results are below:
Chatham School (Bulang Park Limousins) also had success with steers purchased from Kundle Park Limousins.
Kundle Park Saint, Class 11, heavy middleweight. Led section 2nd. Carcase, 2nd.
Kundle Park Shaggy, Class 10, heavy middleweight. Led section 2nd. Carcase, 1st.
The reserve champion light middleweight led steer exhibited by JA & CM Adams was bred by Luke Borg (LAS Limousins). He was sired by Flemington Muscle Up out of cow with Willow Park genetics. The steer also won the carcase section of class 6.
Paraders results
Jack Robson – Champion 12 – 13yo
Tom Devine – 2nd heat 14yo.
Sarah Randle – Champion 15yo (and Gand Champion)
Bibiannah Peattie (part of Bulang Park) – 1st heat 17/18yos
JNR Judging Results
Sam Robson – 1st primary
Sarah Randle – 6th 15yo
Bibiannah Peattie – 4th individual overall ICMJ, runner up beef judging ICMJ.
In the interbreed stud heifer competition results were:
Under 12m: Berdihold Silhouette – 1st
12 – 16m: Angledale Stella S29 – Highly commended
16 – 20m: Berdihold Sparkle – 3rd.