Newsletter for the week ending 13 October 2006

PERTH ROYAL HOOF AND HOOK SUCCESS

Limousin cross steers invariably do well in the Perth Royal Hoof and Hook Competition and this year was no exception. In the hoof judging the Grand Champion Prime (unled) animal which then became Supreme animal was a Limousin X Murray Grey exhibited by Tullibardine Pty Ltd from Albany, WA. The Supreme Carcase was a Dexter X Limousin exhibited by Mick and Trish Cabassi who run the Leipold Limousin Stud as well as a Dexter stud at Oldbury, WA. I have questioned the ability of a Dexter bull to serve a Limousin cow but have been assured by Trish who also provided some photographic evidence that it was a young heifer they were keen to join young and a very determined Dexter bull.

The Cabassis also had success with a Limousin X Dexter in the on hoof judging with the steer wining its class and the Light Weight Led Steer Championship.

Kelmscott Senior High School were also successful in the led steer competition with a Murray Grey X Limousin taking out the Medium Weight Championship. This steer was also the Reserve Champion Medium Weight Carcase.

BREEDERS OF MELBOURNE ROYAL STEERS

Elke Lissenden has sent in a little more information about the breeders of successful steers in the Melbourne Royal Competition. The ¾ Limousin ¼ Angus heifer shown by Nagle College which won the Heavy Domestic Class on the Hoof and was the Reserve Champion Heavy Domestic Carcase was bred by Elke and Nigel Lissenden of Teken Limousins at Vesper, Vic.

Edgar and Denise Rule of Eden Park Limousins bred the steer exhibited by Marist-Sion College which won its class on the hook and Helmut Krutsch bred the Limousin X Angus steer which was shown by Cairo Christian School which was highly commended on the hoof and scored well in the carcase section with 83 points.

TWO NEW BULLS FOR ABS AUSTRALIA

ABS Australia announces the semen arrival of two magnificent sires. These have been sourced from Deer Valley in Tennessee following Bill Cornell's visit earlier this year.

EXLR Native 7133N is a homo black, homo polled son of EXLR Judo out of a JCL Black Out daughter.

DVLF Undeniable 1124N is a red and double polled son of Black Dakota out of EXLR Luvly 081F a daughter of Wulfs Dawson.

For full pedigrees and more information contact Bill Cornell.

For semen orders contact ABS Australia, Bill Cornell 0428 293498, bcornell@absglobal.com or Riverlea Advance Genetics (Neil Jolliffe 02 69229432, NJOLLIFFE@bigpond.com ) or your usual semen reseller.

Bulls are priced at $60 + gst. Also ROMN Justice has been repriced to $60 (a saving of $5)

For a special package offer select any 30 or more unit combination of the three bulls, and buy at $55 per unit.

PERTH ROYAL SHOW RESULTS

Young Limousin breeders James Morris and Adam Gregory cleaned up in the Junior Bull section at Perth Royal Show. Champion Junior Bull was Adam's Gregory Park Astro Boy and Reserve was James' Morrisvale Anaconda.

White Lakes Limousins dominated the female sections with the Junior Champion Female White Lakes Auburn Beauty and Reserve Junior Champion White Lakes All Style. The Senior Champion was White Lakes Extra Pizazz and the Reserve Senior Champion White Lakes True Gypsy.

In a very successful show for White Lakes they took out Interbreed Supreme Champion Female with White Lakes Xtra Pizazz and were runners up in the Interbreed Junior Female with White Lakes Auburn Beauty.

WARWICK CARCASE CLASSIC
ON HOOF

Limousin cross cattle were placed first on hoof in six of the seven classes in the Warwick Carcase Classic yesterday. The champion was a Limousin X heifer exhibited by Alan Crawford and family of Kingaroy. The Crawfords who have bought some high priced Limousin bulls over the years won four of the seven classes and gained a number of placings. The champion grain fed steer was a Limousin cross exhibited by Bill Gross.

CARCASE

The Grand Champion Carcase at the Warwick Carcase Classic was a Charolais X Limousin exhibited by Howard and Tanya Gross of Risdon Park, Warwick. However they had hot competition from Alan and Val Crawford who had 24 Limousin cross cattle entered in the competition. The Crawfords were most successful exhibitors wining 11 of the 23 hoof ribbons and four of the seven classes on the hook. They also won the Champion Heavy Weight and Champion Grain Fed Steer on the hook.

Over 190 head were entered in this high profile competition.

ORANGE NATIONAL FIELD DAYS STAND

The Central West Limousin Promotion Group will have a stand at the Orange National Field Days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Limousin members are invited to visit the stand and do their bit to promote Limousins in that area.

LIMOUSIN SALES AND EVENTS

17^th –19^th October: Orange National Field Days.

27^th October: Fernlea Complete Female Dispersal, Warragul, Vic (catalogue on the web).

15^th November: Tobias Annual Female Sale, Forbes, NSW.

24^th November: Classic Limousin Female Sale, Culcairn, NSW.

29^th January 2007: Premier and Longreach Limousins Female Production Sale, Moss Vale, NSW.

21^st February 2007: Mandayen 2^nd Limousin Performance Sale, Furner, SA.

23^rd February 2007: White Lakes Limousin & Angus Bull & Female Sale, Brunswick, WA.

1^st March 2007: Donna Valley Annual Bull Sale, Holbrook, NSW.

Yours in Limousin

Alex McDonald