Vic based Wanamara stud completed a hat trick of supreme successes in the Australian Lowline judging.
Stud principal Julie Knight, Major Plains, Vic, was rapt her bull Wanamara Cavalier was able to defend its title, after last year taking the major award as a junior.
The 27-month-old son of Whitby Farm Freeman weighed 650 kilograms with 103 square centimetres of eye muscle.
Judge Neil Watson, Tamworth, NSW said both his grand champions were very good representatives of the breed but the bull would “take the breed to the next step”.
“It is a very meaty bull , looks like a real doer and gets around the ring with ease,” he said.
Ms Knight who has been breeding Australian Lowlines for 21 years said Cavalier had an incredible docile temperament and was easy to handle.
“He will pass the temperament onto his progeny and the calf on the ground (by Cavalier) is really nice and beefy,” she said.
An added incentive to Ms Knight’s Adelaide showing was seeing her daughter who is based in SA with the army.
Five year old, Glenlonny Hermine and her five month-old heifer calf rose to the top for senior and grand champuon female.
“You can see she has a good udder, she has bred a good calf and she is sound as a bell,” Mr Watson said.
It was a fitting end to nearly 20 years exhibiting at Adelaide with Ms Foureur deciding to hang up the show halters to focus on selling Lowline beef, sausages and pies with fellow breeders Peter and Denise Moloney.
Their Burrungule Boutique Beef sells out most weeks at the Mount Gambier Farmers’ Markt.
Both junior broad ribbons were awarded to entries from Christine and Michael Noel’s Serena Downs stud, Windsor Downs, NSW.
Mr Watson was impressed by the fertility, structural correctness of the Australian Lowline entries.
