BACK-TO-BACK open led steer championships capped off a successful round of commercial competitions for Travis Luscombe and Allison McCabe, Ace High Led Steers, Toowoomba.
Their charge, Blueberry Wine, was nominated by judge Tim Bayliss, Landmark AuctionsPlus sales co-ordinator, Armidale, NSW as his the champion open steer at the CRT FarmFest Led Steer and Heifer Show, Kingsthorpe Park, via Toowoomba on Tuesday.
Event organisers Len Barnes and Jill Mathews said there were more than 100 head entered which was comparable to recent years and the standard of cattle was excellent.
Blueberry Wine was sired by a Charolais/Angus cross bull and was out of a Limousin cow and weighed 626 kilograms at 18 months.
The Ace High steer had earlier taken out the heavyweight class and has continued on with his winning run after taking out champion steer of the Pittsworth, Warwick, Goondiwindi and Taroom shows earlier this year.
Mr Bayliss said his champion steer had ticked all the boxes in terms of carcase attributes, doing ability and muscle expression and hit export specifications through his tremendous yield capacity.
The Luscombe and McCabe partnership were also named most successful exhibitor in the open classes.
A superb 484kg Limousin/Charolais cross steer, Teddy Bear, exhibited by Cathy Yarnold and Blake Dawson was named reserve champion open steer or heifer and was paraded by Corey Kuhl of Toowoomba.
In a highly competitive school section it was the Dalby State High School which dominated judging with two of their steers featured in the run off for championship honours.
Their champion school steer, Maverick, a moderate framed three-quarter Limousin and one quarter Belmont Red entry was paraded by Year 10 student Lucy Kucks.
The 13-month-old steer weighed 578kgs and had earlier won the 481kg and over class.
His team mate and reserve champion school steer, Nemo, a 13-month-old Limousin/Angus cross entry which weighed 374kgs and was presented by Year 8 student Joe Tones.
