BAIRNSDALE stud Ashley Park have taken out their second supreme White Suffolk title in as many weeks.
Parading at the Royal Melbourne Show today, Ian Kyle and family were “over the moon” to win the broadribbon with a different ram to their champion at the Elite White Suffolk competition last week.
The August 2013-drop ram was an “easy choice” for judge Finlay MacDonald from Fairburn stud at Porcupine Ridge.
“He’s just a very balanced ram that’s got that stud sire appeal about him,” Mr MacDonald said.
The ram by Ashley Park-433 weighed 131.5 kilograms and scanned in with an eye muscle area of 37.8 millimetres.
The ram was sold at last week’s Elite White Suffolk sale in Bendigo for $6000 to Pinnacle stud.
Dudley Huxtable of Duenclin, Kaniva, won grand champion White Suffolk ewe with a June-July 2013-drop.
Mr Huxtable said she was one of the best ewes he’d bred, and her size-for-age was particularly impressive.
She hit the scales at 99 kilograms and had an EMA of 38.12mm.
“You rarely see a ewe with that kind of eye muscle area,” Mr Huxtable said.
“I’m pleased as punch with [the show team] this year.”
Ashley Park will be vying for their second consecutive supreme interbreed ram title when all of the breeds line against each other on Monday.
- More Melbourne Show results in the Stock & Land September 25 edition
Dannika Bonser
Journalist for Stock & Land.
Journalist for Stock & Land.
