Champions
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Junior and grand female: Whitaker Miss Paris (H), Whitaker Brahmans, Mundubbera. Reserve: Whitaker Miss Sherry, Whitaker Brahmans.
Senior female: BT Charlie Dee (PP), BT Brahmans, Dubbo. Res: Whitaker Miss Lily, Whitaker Brahmans.
Junior bull: Blanco Ganado Veteran, Blanco Ganado, Nabiac. Res: Whitaker Mr Yeti, Whitaker Brahmans.
Senior and grand bull and best exhibit: Whitaker Mr Cruiser, Whitaker Brahmans. Res: Mogul Red Laredo, Mogul Brahmans, Casino.
Judge: Brett McCamley, Fern Hill Brahmans, Rockhampton.
The long trip all the way from Mundubbera, Qld, was worthwhile for Whitaker Brahmans, which won the best exhibit and grand champion female.
The stud's bull, Whitaker Mr Cruiser, wooed judge Brett McCamley, also on his first excursion to Sydney, for the senior and grand ribbons and then best exhibit.
Mr Cruiser, 24 months, weighed 896 kilograms with 138 square centimetre eye muscle area and 14 and 11 millimetres of rump and rib fat.
The stud is run by Clint and Robyn Whitaker who have about 1000 cows, including 300 registered.
Mrs Whitaker said they came to Sydney to "show off what we've got".
"The fellow Brahman breeders have been so welcoming ... and it's a great atmosphere here," she said.
The couple brought eight head to the show and got 18 ribbons, but the aim was to promote semen sales in their bull to the domestic and international market.
Mrs Whitaker said they'll keep the bull to use at home, but collect him for genetics sales.
As a young bull, Mr Cruiser had been supreme Brahman male and best interbreed beast at the Toogoolawah Brahman feature show.
His sire was Whitaker Mr Amani, a homebred bull, but it was his dam side of the pedigree from where he inherited some of his more endearing features, such as his defininitively masculine head.
Mr Whitaker said the bull's dam, Whitaker Miss Crystal, was bred from a flush using 20-year-old semen from the stud's foundation sire Carinya M First Impression, the bull from which Mr Cruiser inherited his looks.
Mr Cruiser was described by the judge, Brett McCamley, as carrying himself well with great depth, loose skin, and EMA.
"It's not too hard to talk about all the positives in this bull ... there's not a lot wrong in him," he said.
The Whitaker stud also exhibited the junior and grand female, Whitaker Miss Paris, by NCC Eastaway and from from Whitaker Miss 445.
She was one of five head on the Whitaker team by NCC Eastaway being prepared for the 2024 NCC Genetic Challenge, a new concept open to studs using NCC genetics.
Mr McCamley said the female struck him from the moment she walked in the ring and had a a nice hip to pin structure and remained very feminine for the muscle she was carrying.
The stud also exhibited the reserve junior champion bull, Whitaker Yeti (H), also by Eastaway, which made the team not just for its phenotypic qualities but essentially its bombproof temperament, Mr Whitaker said.
Whitaker also exhibited the reserve senior, Whitaker Whitaker Miss Lily, by Carinya Fairmont, and the reserve junior female, Whitaker Miss Sherry, also the progeny of NCC Eastaway.
The senior female was awarded to BT Charlie Dee, a homozygous polled, 6 1/2-year-old daughter of Langley Dale Diesel and from BT Charlies Angle.
"You've got to commend her on how she handles that muscle pattern at that age, her nice underline - she's a good functional female," Mr McCamley said.
Charlie Dee was exhibited by Colin and Linette Tink, BT Brahmans, Dubbo.
The junior champion bull went to the 19-month-old Blanco Ganado Veteran (H) by Raglan Mr Jet and from Blanco Ganado First Lady and was exhibited by Penni Sloman and Kim Weller, Blanco Ganado Brahmans, Nabiac.
Mogul Brahmans, Casino, took reserve senior bull with the 31-month-old Mogul Red Laredo L258 (PS), by Token Ferrari (PS) and from Mogul Miss G Evelyn (H).
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