Allendale principals Graham and Alastair Day, Bordertown, SA, with their reserve and champion Suffolk rams - with the top ram, which won the ram under 1.5 years shorn class, going on to be named supreme exhibit.
Graham said the 14-month-old ram had won grand champion Suffolk ram at Adelaide Show recently.
He was by the 2011 interbreed champion Allendale 588, weighing 142.5kg and had a muscle depth of 44sqcm.
Judge Finlay MacDonald, Fairburn stud, Porcupine Ridge, said the champion ram was very well balanced, very correct, and full of meat, while the ram in reserve had a good loin and hindquarter, and was also "chock a block" full of meat.
The reserve champion ram, a 15-month-old weighing 125.5kg, won the performance class in his first showing.
The Days brought a team of eight Suffolks to the show, plus 12 Poll Dorsets, and also won sire's progeny group.
- More Melbourne Show results in Stock & Land September 25 edition
Alisha Fogden
Cropping editor of Stock Journal.
Cropping editor of Stock Journal.
