Sally Cripps

Nineteen-year-old Tyler Smith is one of a growing band of young women not just evident in the Limousin show ring at Brisbane Royal Show, but winning sashes.

The young Victorian studmaster has returned home with the tricolour ribbon for grand champion Limousin cow or heifer for Cowgirl Zola’s Shadow.

The daughter of Wulfs Waldo and White Lakes Zola’s Shadow, the matron is a three time visitor to the show ring at Brisbane, taking out third place in the under 12 month class in her first outing in 2014 before placing first in the over 20 month category last year.

This year, as well as being named senior and grand champion Limousin cow, she was in the top five in the Champion of Champions interbreed competition.

Tyler bought Zola as a 20 month old calf at the 2013 PRL dispersal sale in Orange and said that as a calf, she was just a mini-version of the cow she’s grown into.

“Limousins have muscle, and she has softness to carry that through,” she said.

To add to her rewards, Tyler’s young heifer Cowgirl Wiggled won her class earlier in the day.

“I couldn’t be more proud of my Limos,” she said.

Judge Gavin O’Brien, himself the operator of Winchester Charolais Stud at Orange, NSW, said Limousins were in competition with the other French breed for market share and he thought the award winners would slot right into the top of the beef industry.

“I was really pleased to award a unit as strong as (Cowgirl Zola’s Shadow). She’s in good nick and doing a good job on her calf,” he said.

West Australian Limousin studmaster Michal Mamo and southern NSW cattleman Tim Reid were introduced to each other at the Sydney Royal Show this year where they made a pact to buy the junior champion Limousin bull together.

They went on to the National Sale at Wodonga in April and made good their promise, becoming joint owners of Myers King of Hearts for $10,000, when the young black bull was put up for sale by Scott Myers and Samantha Beresford of Moss Vale.

With a weight of 788kg, the lightest of all senior exhibits, he was judged the senior bull in the Limousin ring at Brisbane Royal, before going on to take the grand champion bull crown.

He was the only exhibit the pair had at the show, but as Tim Reid, who is from Melon Pastoral Company at Roslyn, said, one was enough.

Judging Results:

Junior Champion Bull – Five Star to the Batmobile, exhibited by Five Star Limousins

Res. Junior Champion Bull – TCW Kenworth, exhibited by TCW Livestock

Junior Champion Female – Warrigal Golden Caviar, exhibited by Warrigal Limousins

Reserve Junior Champion Female – Oakwood Pay Aleesa, exhibited by Oakwood Limousins

Senior & Grand Champion Bull – Myers King of Hearts, exhibited by Balamara Limousins and Melon Pastoral

Reserve Senior Champion Bull – Rosehill K842, exhibited by Rosehill Limousins

Senior & Grand Champion Female – Cowgirl Zola’s Shadow, exhibited by Cowgirl Limousins

Reserve Senior Champion Female – Jen-Daview Polled Lady Janke, exhibited by Jen-Daview Limousins