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Blue Ribbon Day For Glenlands at the Ekka
17th September, 2004
Glenlands Hatch put the finishing touch to a triumphant day for the Bouldecombe based Droughtmaster stud, Glenlands at the recent Brisbane Royal Show.
The prefix took home the grand and senior champion bull title along with the reserve senior champion male, the reserve senior champion female and the reserve junior champion male.
Glenlands Hatch backed recent wins such as the interbreed champion of the Rockhampton Show to take the senior and grand champion male ribbon at the show the 30 – 42 month class. Heaviest Droughtmaster on the grounds, Hatch weighed in at 1128kg with an EMA measurement of 133sq cm. By Cungelella Farmhand, Hatch also took out the grand champion male at the 2005 breed feature at Theodore.
Attracting praise from judge Ian Galloway, Duarran, Roma for his freedom of movement, muscle pattern and weight the Glenlands prefix has decided to offer a semen package (10 straws) in their team leader at their forthcoming sale, September 13 at the Gracemere Saleyards.
Reserve senior champion was the stablemate, Glenlands Imparja. Winner of the under 30-months class, Imparja scaled in at 958kg with the breeds biggest EMA of 138sq cm. Sired by Garthowen Federal 2nd, Imparja was earlier this the junior champion at the Baralaba Show and the reserve senior champion at the Theodore Feature Show. Imparja is a maternal half brother to the $20,000 Glenlands Hamal and will be one of the many feature lots at the Glenlands Sale where he is catalogued as lot 3.
Reserve senior champion female was the rising two-year-old Glenlands Joanne a daughter of the former breed record holder, Talgai 730. Eight lots by the $46,000 sire Talgai 730 will go under the hammer at the annual sale.
Starting off his show career with an immediate win was the impressive youngster, Glenlands KB. At 11 months the young star boasted a weight of 536kg a daily gain of 1.7kg/day for whole of life and an EMA recording of 106cm sq with fat depth scans of 5/7mm. Sired by one of the operation leading males, Glenlands Element 2 and bred from the multi award winning dam, Glenlands Iris, KB took the reserve junior champion male ribbon after taking out the blue in the under 12 months class.
Sixteen sons of Element 2 have already averaged $5500 with a further eight of his progeny to be offered in the 2005 sale.
On a winning day the stud claimed the blue ribbon in the Professor John Francis Memorial Breeder’s Group.
