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LEFT Robert Burrows from the Stardale herd judged the interbreed championships.
BELOW Standing reserve Holstein champion was the second calved Illens Atwood Australia.
ABOVE Holstein judge Hugh Neilson from the Overside herd.
hind legs very well,” commented Robert. To complete the hat trick of interbreed titles the group of four took the overall honours with the team consisting of the interbreed champion Parkend Sanchez Tamara, interbreed heifer champion Boclair Sid Hope, reserve breed champion Illens Atwood Australia from Blythbridge Holsteins and the first prize mature cow Blythbridge Blackjack Jackie. Holstein judge Hugh Neilson from Overside Holsteins commented on his championship decision: “It was a very close placing in the overall championship, but I gave the third calver the advantage for her style and ring presence combined with a better rump structure and front teats over a super framed cow in reserve that I really admired for her rear udder and ligament.”
Standing reserve in the Holstein classes was Blythbridge Holsteins’ second lactation Illens Atwood Australia who was imported earlier this year from the Illens herd in Switzerland. She stood top of the biggest class of the day with eight second calvers forward and previously stood champion at Expo Sarine 2015 and second at Swiss Expo 2014, as well as champion junior at Expo Bulle 2014. She was shown producing 42kg a day having given 11,552kg in her first lactation. Having calved in October she is classified VG89. An Observer daughter out of her sold at Expo Bulle 2015 for $15,000. Her dam is an 89 point Lheros daughter that is fresh in her eighth lactation.
The Laird family also stood honourable mention with their second prize third calver, Blythbridge Goldwyn Rosalee EX93. Rosalee is the seventh generation EX with her dam being the EX92 Wiesenfeld Talent Rosalee. She was first second calver at UK Dairy Expo 2013 and fourth in the second calver class
at the Royal Highland Show 2013. She has produced 47,000kg in three lactations at 4.19%bf and 3.42%p. Having calved in September, she is due again in September to Blondin Integral. Commenting on the heifer championship Hugh Neilson said: “The senior heifer had advantage for size and scale through the front end and more volume of udder, although I really admired the correctness and sweetness of the junior heifer.” Meiklefirth Windhammer Jo Flo from David Yates stood reserve heifer champion having won the junior class. Classified VG87 she is the highest classified Windhammer daughter in the UK and calved at 24 months old in December. She was shown giving 33kg a day and is back in-calf to the first service to Seagull-Bay Silver. Shown on her first outing, she is out of Berryholme Jo Flo VG87, a Jordan daughter purchased in partnership with Andrew Bunting for 12,000gns at the Black and White Sale 2011. Meiklefirth Sargeant Flo 2, a maternal sister to this heifer sold at the Black and White Sale 2014 for 3000gns to Smallthwaite Farms, Penrith. In the other classes Jonathan Woodhouse stood first in the maiden heifer class with Shoreline Shadow Snowdrop. Born in May 2014, this B-Crest Shadow daughter is out of the VG86 scored Lodgic Snowdrop 10, a Talent daughter who is backed by two more generations of VG or EX. She stood first maiden heifer and first HYB young calf at Cumberland Show, as well as second at the Western Spring Show. In the mature cow class Blythbridge Blackjack Jackie stood top of
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