DSK Charolais principals Chris Knox and Helen Alexander, Coonabarabran, exhibited a smoking hot bull to win best exhibit in the Charolais ring at the Sydney Royal.
DSK RSMK Just Smokin J6E was a 19-month-old sire weighing 872 kilograms with an eye muscle area of 135 square centimetres.
Judge Stephen Hayward, Advance Charolais, Allora, Queensland said the bull was an excellent display of the Charolais breed.
“He’s got plenty of spring of rib, he’s got a lovely skin and hair type to him, he’s got good testicles and a good balance of bone and muscle,” he said.
Just Smokin bet the senior and grand champion cow, Crathes Estella 32, exhibited by Glen and Kim Waldron, Elite Charolais, Meandarra, for the supreme gong.
The 27-month-old cow had a two and a half month old heifer calf at foot, and was purchased by the Waldrons at the Charolais National sale in 2014 from Keith and Roz Glasson, Crathes Charolais, Greenmount.
The cow’s dam had previously been an interbreed champion at Sydney Royal, Brisbane Royal and the Rockhampton Beef Expo, while the exhibit itself was a reserve junior Charolais heifer at the Brisbane Royal last year.
Elite stud also exhibited the senior champion Charolais bull, Elite Jackal, while Nigel and Casey Wieck, CB Charolais, Delungra, exhibited the junior champion female.
