Pride of the wool industry

By Stephen Burns
Updated July 27 2020 - 11:54am, first published June 28 2020 - 8:00am
Merryville Melbourne Monarch 'Anzac' 43 was purchased for $68,000 during the 1989 Melbourne Sheep Show and Sale. Photo: Graham Coddington
Merryville Melbourne Monarch 'Anzac' 43 was purchased for $68,000 during the 1989 Melbourne Sheep Show and Sale. Photo: Graham Coddington

During the 1989 Melbourne Sheep Show and Sale, a young ram bred by the late Bruce Merriman, Merryville, Yass, caught sheep classer John Williams' attention and he quickly organised a syndicate to make a bid on the two-tooth ram.

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