Willow Drive South Suffolk stud took home all the major awards in their breed judging at the Royal Melbourne Show this year.
This included the grand champion ewe which judge Will Milroy, Rangeview stud, Pipers River, Tasmania, selected as his supreme.
Mr Milroy said the ewe, which came from the over 1.5 years with lamb of her own at foot class, had length and overall balance.
“And she’s rearing a ram lamb in a tough year but still has style and presence,” Mr Milroy said.
Grand champion ram, also from Willow Drive stud, which is run by Barry Shalders at Grassmere, was a July 2017-drop sire weighing 100 kilograms and described by Mr Milroy as a “muscle ball”.
It scanned an eye muscle area of 37.3 square centimetres with nine millimetres of fat.
Mr Shalders also exhibited the reserve champion South Suffolk ewe, drawn from the under 1.5 year old class, and the reserve champion ram, which came from the under 1.5 year old shorn division.
