LIMOUSINS
Supreme exhibit: Berdihold Stud, Oswald, NSW, Berdihold Playboy.
Grand champion bull: Berdihold Stud
Senior champion cow: Aruma Limousin, Phoebe Eckermann, Two Wells, South Australia, Warrawindi Krystal Gem K15.
A lower Hunter Valley, NSW, Limousin stud has tasted showring success with its young bull, from the Queensland to Victoria.
Berdihold Stud, Oswald, took out the supreme rosette at this year's Royal Melbourne Show, after the Flemington Fire Cracker F21, out of Berdihold Glamour, took grand champion bull at this year's Ekka, Queensland.
Berdihold Playboy, a July 2018 drop bull, weighed 624kg and had figures of a 5millimetre rump, 5mm rib and eye muscle area of 115 square centimetres.
Berdihold Stud's Kat Gelerman said Playboy was a god, soft, easy doing bull, with a big future in front of him.
"This is the second year in a row we have won supreme, we brought down two last year but just brought him down, this year," Ms Gelerman said.
"He has got brilliant feet, he has just got structure, he's sound, and he was a 33kilogram birthweight.
"We have a line of cows, at home, ready for him."
Ms Gelerman said "quite a few" offers had already been made for Playboy.
"But it's always hard to sell something when you know how he's going to calve, as he is perfectly safe for heifers."
Every single calf, born to the dam Berdihold Glamour, had won at Royal Shows.
Judge Kierin Martin, Forbes, NSW, said the bull had overall style, structural soundness and completeness.
"Structural soundness is important for me, as it's a profit-driving aspect for me and the business," Mr Martin said.
"A bull wins on production, every day of the week, because of how many calves he can produce, in a year, for me, it was that completeness in that bull.
"It's the top shelf kind of quality, and that's what got him there."
The senior champion bull only had one entry, Aruma Limousin's Aruma Mr Magic.
He recorded figures of a 1160kg weight, 32mm rump, 25mm rib and 130 square centimetre eye muscle area.
Mr Martin praised the entrants in the female classes, won by Aruma Limousin's Warrawindi Krystal Gem K15.
"We have that young heifer out front, and she has a beautiful structure, a beautiful wedge shape and moves around the ring, really well," Mr Martin said.
"This female has a great outlook.".
He said Krystal had a great length of frame and shoulder.
"She is an absolute powerhouse; she has a heap of volume and capacitY," Mr Martin said.
'She has an exceptional bull calf at her side and is doing a great job for the breed."