Judge makes hard decision on Maine Anjou

But with only one winner, she chose the Senior and Grand Champion bull, Brian and Karen Morham’s Rouge Napoleon, an August 2015-drop bull, by Maintou’s Polled Patriot, out of Miss Gee Bar 906J.

The bull had impressive figures of a 1055kilogram weight, a 141 square centimetre eye muscle area, rump fat of eight millimetres and rib fat of five mm.

“He is in his working clothes, which I like to see and I like to see that fat cover on him,” Mrs Newham said.

“He’s an easy doing type of bull, with that fat cover down the front end, and is probably just a little bit more refined in the shoulders.”

In choosing between the junior and senior bulls, Mrs Newham said both were outstanding.

“Just purely for that little bit more scale and length, and especially that extension through the front end, I am going to give it to the senior bull.”

She described the Junior bull, Uandi Dynamite Joe, as a lovely, soft clean calf.

“He is clean through the brisket, has a tonne of rib and when you get beside him and front of him, you can see that muscling in him,” Mrs Newham said.

“He has plenty of depth, a good flat fold, and really nice, soft quality skin.”

The Morhams also took out the female sections, with Rouge Fleur from the same sire and dam as the supreme exhibit.

Mrs Newham said Fleur was an outstanding female.

“They are each supreme exhibits, in their own right,” she said.

‘We have a three-year-old cow as feminine as you would find.

“She has terrific depth, she has that wedgy shape, a lovely mellow front and comes out to show that great width in the hindquarters

“She is lovely and seamless through the shoulder area, with plenty of rib on her, a lovely udder and is doing a fantastic job on a calf.”

Mr Morham said he believed the judge picked the bull because of his eye muscle area, softness and thickness.

“He carries himself well, walks well, stands well – he does everything right.”