THE youngest competitor in the showring proved age is just a number on her way to winning the beef cattle young paraders' championship at the Royal Adelaide Show on Saturday.
Two weeks shy of her tenth birthday, Elle Davies shone brightly in a strong field of competitors, many four years her senior.
Elle's family runs the Wild Bear Poll Hereford stud at Paris Creek and she has been to the heifer show in Adelaide for the past two years, as well as the national Hereford youth show in NSW.
The little superstar said she was very happy to be named the champion parader and said she loved competing, but not for the ribbons but improving her parading skills and making plenty of friends.
Elle said the heifer she led - from her friend Emily Hann, Nampara, Lucindale - had taken direction well and had remained calm throughout its time in the showring.
It was a strong field of paraders, with 64 entrants across four age groups.
Elle won the sub junior class, with Maddison Hann, Lucindale, taking out the junior class, Shayla Lepse, Reynella, winning the intermediate class and Lucy Newman, Meadows, winning the senior class.
As the top 15 plus year old, Lucy will compete in a national beef paraders competition in Vic next year.
Max Peruzzi, Clapham, was awarded the Nutrien encouragement prize.
Placegetters in each class included Sidney van Dissel, Mount Barker, and Austin Hann, Lucindale, in the sub junior class, Emily Hann, Lucindale, and Sam Buick, Western Flat, in the junior class, Zanna Spence, Two Wells, and Grace Jolly, Oakbank, in the intermediate class, and Phoebe Eckermann, Two Wells, and Bianca Wood, Halbury, in the senior class.
