A small but high quality showing of Red Angus cattle gave NSW judge James McWilliam plenty to ponder but ultimately the Iseppi family, GK Livestock, Dalby, proudly claimed top bull and cow honors at Beef Australia.
In their first showing at Beef since 2012, Kirrily and daughter Brooke were delighted to see their 17-month-old bull, GK Queensland Tradition Q12, named grand champion bull while GK Red 1B Platinum Ruba was sashed grand champion female.
A son of Red Lazy MC Tradition 111C, Queensland Tradition weighed in at 844kg.
He impressed the judge in the junior classes with his walkability before going on to claim grand champion.
GK Livestock also took home the male calf champion honours for Round-Em-Up Rascal.
Grand champion cow, GK Red 1B Platinum Ruba P26 was shown with her Cockburn Assassin heifer calf.
She went on to place in the top four in the interbreed while the GK Livestock breeders group also featured highly in the interbreed.
Kirrily said GK Red 1B Platinum Ruba was a natural calf out of GK Red Ruba 26 G40 - a cow that won supreme female twice at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in 2015 and 2017 and was named supreme beef exhibit at Sydney in 2017.
"I imported G40 from Canada as an embryo so that cow line really means a lot to us," she said.
"Platinum Ruba is just a beautiful, big, deep bodied cow and very structurally correct. She will go on to Brisbane and we are looking forward to that."
In his closing remarks about the female classes Mr McWilliam described the winning female as a "proper good cow" and said her neat udder and good foot shape make her the complete package.
GK Livestock also took home the female calf champion ribbon for Triple M Morojitti R12 while the junior champion female honours were claimed by Springvale Qadnce, exhibited by Springvale Red Angus, Proston.
Spectators were heartened to see the big effort from the students from St Josephs Nudgee College who took home the reserve female calf champion ribbon for Kedmaw Cherok.
Results panel
Number of exhibits: 10
Calf champion male: Round-Em-Up Rascal, exhibited by Round-Em-Up, Molong, NSW
Calf champion female: Triple M Morojitti R12, exhibited by Kirrily Johnson Iseppi and family, Dalby
Reserve calf champion female: Kedmaw Cherok, exhibited by St Josephs Nudgee College
Junior champion bull: GK Queensland Tradition, Kirrily Johnson Iseppi and family
Reserve junior champion bull: GK Red 624 Quest Q13, Kirrily Johnson Iseppi and family
Junior champion female: Springvale Qadnce, exhibited by Springvale Red Angus, Proston
Senior champion female: GK Red 1B Platinum Ruba, Kirrily Johnson Iseppi and family
Reserve senior champion female: Springvale Nice N Sassy, Springvale Red Angus
Grand champion bull: GK Queensland Tradition
Grand champion female: GK Red 1B Platinum Ruba
