Local breeders top in beef spectacular
The Lang Lang Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society’s new cattle committee staged a spectacular exhibition of cattle at the Lang Lang show.
A youth education and stock show on the Friday afternoon before cattle judging on the Saturday was a fresh incentive for the show.
Children and young adults were able to go along to the Lang Lang Showgrounds and gain valuable tuition, guidance and hands-on experience in how to wash, dry, comb, clip and present their animals for shows and sales.
Attendees as young as seven got to lead around heifers in a fun and non-intimidating environment. For some handlers, it was their first time holding onto an animal that was potentially 20 times their size and weight and these animals that were selected for this task, took it in their stride.
The participants were instructed how to lead the animals around and later judged by Clay Marbilia of Graham’s Seeds in a parade competition before also learning about the finer points of judging and assessing cattle and competing in a junior judges competition where the winners from each have the chance to compete at the Royal Melbourne Show in the state finals.
Jamie Vospher from Yea stole the evening, winning both champion handler and champion junior judge.
On the main show day the cattle were presented for judging in the Lang Lang Show beef cattle spectacular all breeds competition.
The event attracted cattle from not only around Gippsland, but also from around Victoria and was judged by Courtney Hazeldean of Ganado Murray
Greys in Central Victoria.
Leigh Price’s black Limousin heifer, Black Label Rejoice was named junior champion heifers, while a Speckle Park cow from Hanging Rock Heather P01 took out senior champion female and went on to be the grand champion female.
The impressive 19-monthold Simmental bull, Mt Ararat Quantum, won the junior champion and went on to be crowned grand champion bull from the senior champion winner, a welsh Black Buchanan Park Lincoln, owned by Allan and Jill Furborough.
Mt Ararat Quantum shone through to be named supreme exhibit from more than 50 exhibits.
The committee is already starting to plan for next year and look forward to welcoming old and new faces again for even a bigger and better beef spectacular.