![SA SUPREME: White Suffolk judge Allan Piggott, Illoura stud, Moorlands, sashes the supreme White Suffolk exhibit held by Lachy Day, Day s Whiteface stud, Bordertown. SA SUPREME: White Suffolk judge Allan Piggott, Illoura stud, Moorlands, sashes the supreme White Suffolk exhibit held by Lachy Day, Day s Whiteface stud, Bordertown.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-agfeed/2034753.jpg/r0_0_600_400_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
THERE was no home advantage for the Victorians, with South Australian exhibitors nearly making a clean sweep of the ribbons in White Suffolk judging at the Sheepvention this week - they won seven of the eight hotly contested ram classes, and four of the six ewe classes.
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Lachy and Lou Day, Day's stud, Bordertown, claimed supreme exhibit from close to 200 entries with a July 2012-drop ram described by judge Allan Piggott, Illoura, Moorlands as a great example of the White Suffolk breed.
"The ewe is very feminine and smooth through the front with a great back end but the ram was exactly what I was looking for today with scale frame and length," Mr Piggott said.
The 113-kilogram ram which will be offered by Day's stud in the Elite Ram sale at the Royal Adelaide Show had an eye muscle depth of 47 millimetres and fat depth of 8mm.
He was sired by a member of Day's Whiteface's winning LAMBPLAN pair from the 2012 Sheepvention and Royal Adelaide Show.
A 12-month-old ewe from Clive and Deb Shillabeer and family's Wingamin stud, Karoonda, repeated her champion ewe title from Bendigo to be champion White Suffolk ewe at Hamilton. The judge was pleasantly surprised when he later found out that she was by one of his own rams - Illoura 520.
*Full report in Stock Journal, August 8 issue, 2013.