Jason O’Loghlin’s Ologhin Wiltshire Horn stud, Deniliquin, NSW, has won the supreme exhibit of the breed for the fourth consecutive year. This year judge Ian Starritt, Womboota Pastoral, Womboota, NSW, awarded the supreme title to their late August drop ewe, which still had its lambs’ teeth.
“She’s got a lot of scale, spring of rib and is very, very correct on her feet. She’s an outstanding sheep,” Mr Starritt said.
Mr O’Loghlin said he planned to join the ewe in February and maybe down the track would include her in an ET program.
Ologhin stud dominated the breed’s judging at the Royal Melbourne Show. There was only one other stud – Catherine Boyd’s Highshire stud, Coomoora.
The ewe beat Ologhlin stud’s champion ram for the supreme. Both the ewe and the ram were by the home-bred Dynamite sire, and had the carcase characteristics judge Ian Starritt, Womboota Pastoral, Womboota, NSW, sought. It came out of the ram under 1.5 year-old class, being born in August 2016. It weighed 77kg and scanned 7mm fat, 45mm muscle depth88mm muscle width and 38.5sqcm muscle area.