Limousin champions
Grand bull and supreme exhibit: Warrawindi, Penola, South Australia. Res: Garren Park Genetics, Culcairn.
Female: Western Gold Limousin stud, Kyneton, Victoria. Res: Garren Park Genetics.
A SOUTH Australian bull with an unusual name caught the eye of the South Australian Limousin judge, Anthony Hurst, from Avenue Range, at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show.
Warrawindi Chainsmoker, an April 2016-drop bull, from Warrawind stud, Penola, SA, took out supreme exhibit.
Stud principal, David Galpin, said his son, Mason, came up with the name.
“He was really outstanding as a calf and we needed an outstanding name, a catchy name, to put with him,” Mr Galpin said.
He was really outstanding as a calf and we needed an outstanding name, a catchy name, to put with him.
- David Galpin, Warrawindi Limousin stud, Penola, SA
Chainsmoker was the result of a “couple of generations” of Warrawindi breeding.
“He’s an exceptional bull, he’s perfectly structured and just the type of animal we have been aspiring to breed,” he said.
Sired by Warrawindi King Yonkers, and from Warrawindi Flower, the 782 kilogram 18-month-old had four and three millimetres of rump and rib fat depth and a 135 square centimetre eye muscle area.
The bull took supreme exhibit over the senior and grand female exhibited by Shane and Hannah Hohnberg, Western Gold Limousin stud, Kyneton, Victoria.
Western Gold Jellie Bean, shown at Melbourne with a bull calf by Warrigal High Vision (which also sired last year’s interbreed junior bull), was a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter of the popular Romn Towtruck and from a cow called Bonian Emerald, a multiple broadribbon winner herself.
Mr Hohnberg said despite her young age, Jellie Bean had already been a successful cow, having sold the highest priced genetics lot at this year’s national show and sale, that being a flush for $5000 to Toebelle Limousins, Maitland.
Her first calf, a bull, also made $12,000 at the same sale to Tasmanian stud, Lintwood Limousins, Westerway.