IT was a double victory for Boldview Farms in the Ayrshire competition, picking up the senior and reserve champion.
Seven-year-old Boldview Bonaparte Spect, exhibited by Scott Braendler, Boldview, Jervois, took the tricolour ribbon ahead of its paddock-mate, five-year-old Boldview Whammy Calypso.
Mr Braendler said he had high hopes for the two cows.
“We knew both cows had a good chance – they were probably our higher-hoped cows to do well,” he said.
“It could’ve gone either way for the champion line up and it was probably just the maturity of the older cow that put her up.”
This was only the second year of showing for Bonaparte Spect – a class winner in 2016, and daughter of a new Geelunga dam that has bred well at Boldview.
“It’s a cow we really admire at home and we’re really happy with how she’s going,” Mr Braendler said.
“Other than dairy week, this is the strongest show for the Ayrshire breed in Australia – to know we do as well as we do is really good.”
International judge Derek Hayward, Cambridge, New Zealand, said the senior champion cow had a great shape.
“There is a tremendous amount of volume and dairyness,” he said.
Maturity and depth helped Paschendaele Klassy Beer come to the forefront in the selection for the intermediate champion.
The 2.5-year-old cow came from Steven Eagles, Paschendaele stud, Gooloogong, NSW, who regularly makes the trip across to compete.
It had the edge above the reserve champion, also from Boldview Farms, Enterprise Doubly Whammy Rose 3rd, which came from the three-year-old class.
Juvenile champion was the "super stylish” 13-month-old heifer of Casey Treloar, Victor Harbor, Finesse Burdette Marcie.
Reserve went to two-year-old Kyamberjade Gibbs Flower, Kymaberjade Ayrshires, Mount Barker.
Mr Hayward said he was impressed with the sizable showing of the breed – the largest in the dairy section.
“There was a lot of depth in the classes,” he said.
Elizabeth Anderson
Editor of Stock Journal.
Editor of Stock Journal.
