THE Cox family from Langdene stud, Dune- doo, have come away from Dubbo with a broadribbon for their six-tooth fine wool ram that won the champion finewool August-shorn ram gong.
The ram, by 4073S, the grandson of the Australian supreme champion in 2009, grew 19.3-micron wool, with a standard deviation (SD) of three micron, 15.5pc co-efficient of variation (CV) and comfort factor (CF) of 100pc.
Langdene also exhibited the champion August-shorn sale ram after first winning the champion fine/medium wool sale ram title.
Sired by Langdene 10.1569 which sold at Dubbo to Stonehouse stud, Tasmania, for $13,000 in 2012, Lang- dene's champion sale ram had a 18.2 micron fleece, 2.4-micron SD, 13.2pc CV and 99.9pc CF.
Out of a top Langdene stud ewe, the ram was reserve champion fine/medium wool August-shorn ram at Sydney Royal this year 2014.
Their pen of three sale rams were also sashed best in show and their four-tooth fine-wool August-shorn ewe won her class before going on to be sashed reserve champion fine-wool August shorn ewe behind Royalla Merino stud's four-tooth finewool ewe in the champion's position.
Winners of the champion finewool March-shorn ram was the Miller family of Glenpaen stud, Brimpaen, Victoria.
Their four-tooth ram, "Hazza", first won his class before being elevated to the March-shorn champion.
Hazza was in Dubbo to represent Victoria in the Australian Supreme Ram of the Year title after grabbing a long list of broadribbons along the way.
In June he took home the supreme wool-breeds sash at Campbell Town Show in Tasmania, it was then off to the Australian Sheep and Wool Show, Bendigo, where he made an impressive Victorian showing in the finewool classes.
Hazza was crowned Victorian-bred Ram of the Year, pushing him into rank to compete for the Australian Ram of the Year title.
Judge at Bendigo, Robert Plush, said it was a ram he couldn't go past with a rich, fine wool fleece
Hazza grows a 17.7-micron fleece, 2.3-micron standard deviation, a 13 per cent co-efficient of variation and a 99.9pc comfort factor.
Stud principal Rod Miller said his son Harry had selected the ewe Harriet to be artificially inseminated to Nerstane 910, producing a "beauty".
It has been an emotional year for the family with fire ripping through their property in January.
Three quarters of their 1500-hectare property was des- troyed, including 40pc of their livestock.
Twenty-one of their cows in calf were put down as a result of their fire injuries adding to the tally of 700 commercial sheep and 23 cattle lost in the blazes.
