General News
5 October, 2022
Dorset ribbons ahead of sale
PAUL Brown has capped off a strong show season with ribbons for most successful poll Dorset exhibitor at the Royal Melbourne Show. The Marong-based stud was also awarded most successful poll Dorset ram exhibitor and picked up prizes for junior...
PAUL Brown has capped off a strong show season with ribbons for most successful poll Dorset exhibitor at the Royal Melbourne Show.
The Marong-based stud was also awarded most successful poll Dorset ram exhibitor and picked up prizes for junior champion and reserve junior champion rams and champion ewe.
The stud’s Paul Brown said the ewe had been reserve champion at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in July.
Success follows a four-month-old Derby Downs ewe lamb taking out the supreme poll Dorset prize at Hamilton’s Sheepvention and the April drop ewe lamb featured in the winning group of three at that show.
Paul said after that success: “Occasionally the ewes do beat the rams but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a ewe lamb beating a ram.”
Derby Downs also picked up most successful exhibitor at Sheepvention.
“We’ve had a successful year ... after three years without shows I had almost forgotten what happens,” Paul said after returning from Melbourne at the weekend.
He said show success was a good entry to the stud’s annual ram sale next week when up to 100 animals will be put under the hammer.
Buyers are again expected to come from across the Loddon and other parts of Victoria for the stud that this year celebrates its 60th birthday.
Among lots on offer will be rams that have impressed judges at shows around Victoria this year.
Paul is also looking ahead to selecting sheep for the show circuit in 2023. “The eye will be cast over lambs very early on and straight after Christmas will look at the ones that will get some special treatment,” he said.