Pine Creek J157 Newsman N003 hit the headlines again, winning supreme beef cattle exhibit, just weeks after achieving the same feat at the Ekka in Brisbane.
The outstanding 20-month-old Angus sire was also a convincing winner for all breeds supreme champion bull, 12 points ahead of its nearest rival.
It was Pine Creek stud’s third supreme ribbon at Adelaide in the past four years.
Owners Greg and Sharon Fuller and their daughter Christie Kennedy from Cowra, NSW, now have their sights on the Royal trifecta, with the bull destined for the Melbourne Royal Show.
Mrs Kennedy was thrilled with the bull, bred from Canadian bloodlines, reaching the pinnacle of success.
It was a grandson of HF Kodiak and out of a daughter of Canadian sire Creed 94S which Pine Creek owns the Australian semen marketing rights in.
Newsman tipped the scales at 918 kilograms and had 130 square centimetres of eye muscle with 14mm rump and 8mm rib fat.
“He is pretty eye catching in the ring and he has just got heaps of sire appeal,” she said.
“He is one of those complete packages – he is moderate but not too big but has all the attributes we need in the commercial industry.”
Pine Creek has already sold semen in the supreme exhibit and will use the bull in their own AI program before entering him in the Angus feature at the 2019 Sydney Royal Easter Show.
Four of the five judges had Newsman as their top pick over a magnificent Red Angus female owned by Christie and her husband Andrew Kennedy, Black Diamond stud, Cowra, in partnership with Gavin and Kirrily Iseppi, GK stud, Dalby, Qld.
The grand champion female was a first calver with an outstanding seven-month-old bull calf.
Mr Iseppi was rapt the cow, a daughter of 2017 supreme beef exhibit at Sydney, Red Ruba G40, claimed the tri-coloured ribbon.
“We love the capacity and mobility of the cow and the way she gets around,” he said.
“It is always a goal when you leave home to be there right to the end and today we got the cow up but just got pipped at the post by the bull.”
The Angus breed had resounding wins in both the all breeds grand and junior pair.
The grand pair comprising the supreme exhibit and grand champion female, PC Ms Kit Kat K006, rose to the top from
Red Angus breeder Hannah Powe, Goondoola stud, Cargo, NSW, was one of the four judges who had them as her top pick.
“They are a very balanced pair, they are really moderate in maturity pattern but packed with a lot of performance and a lot of soundness,” she said.
“They have a lot of presence and they are really fluid on the move.”
The Simmental champions were runner-up for grand pair.
It was only an impressive Charolais trio from Edwina Wiltshire’s Windjammer stud, Flinders, Vic, which spoiled the Angus breed’s tilt at a clean sweep of the interbreed groups.
The progeny of Cedardale Zeal 125Z were clear winners on seven points in the field of nine breeds.
“When I am judging sires progeny I am really looking for that sire battery and putting that breeding through their progeny in a really consistent way,” judge Tom Green, from Tintinara said.
“I found with this team that length of body, carriage and style and put them on top for me today.”
