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Royal Show Agricultural Guide 2018

The Royal Show Agricultural Guide 2018 keeps you up to date on the livestock component of the Royal Agricultural Show in Pietermaritzburg this year. The magazine will be updated with the results of judging and footage of events once the livestock section of the Show has ended.

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Xena.<br />

Other locals who did well included<br />

Ewald Köhne of Waldecke<br />

Herefords in Hermannsburg,<br />

whose Herefords took home the<br />

prizes for champion heifer calf,<br />

junior champion and reserve junior<br />

champion cow and reserve grand<br />

champion cow.<br />

In the Sussex competition, Bulls<br />

Runs Sussex Stud in Himeville<br />

enjoyed success with a win in the<br />

bull 36-48 months category with<br />

Bull’s Run Everest, who was also<br />

named senior and breed champion.<br />

Their younger bull, Huntersvlei<br />

Presto, was the winner in the 30-<br />

36 months category, and Huntersvlei<br />

Zoey took home the prize for<br />

reserve senior champion cow.<br />

Competing in the Limousin<br />

championships were cattle from<br />

Stey Braes Farm in the Kamberg,<br />

near Mooi River, and Stoke Limousins<br />

from Mid-Illovo.<br />

Both studs did well in the group<br />

competitions and for the Stey<br />

Braes team there was success in<br />

the bull calf division, where their<br />

young bull Beast was named reserve<br />

champion.<br />

Competing in the Angus breed<br />

competition were Netherwood<br />

Angus and Invermooi Angus Stud,<br />

both from the Nottingham Road<br />

area and the Epworth Angus Stud<br />

near Mooi River.<br />

Netherwood Jefa was named junior<br />

champion female with Netherwood<br />

Big Mama taking home the<br />

titles of senior and grand champion<br />

cow.<br />

Netherwood had a one-two in<br />

the champion bull calf with Netherwood<br />

Zorba and Netherwood<br />

Victory sharing the owners.<br />

The Epworth Stud, meanwhile,<br />

bred the junior champion and<br />

reserve junior champion bulls,<br />

Epworth Eddie and Epworth<br />

Wholelife. Eddie was also named<br />

grand champion Angus on show,<br />

with Epworth Wholelife the reserve<br />

champion.<br />

— ESTELLE SINKINS,<br />

courtesy of The Witness<br />

<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Show</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

Siyabonga Miya is pictured with Damview Mr Bafana, the junior<br />

and reserve grand champion Red Brahman at the <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Royal</strong><br />

<strong>Show</strong>. PHOTO: ESTELLE SINKINS<br />

Frank Hinze,<br />

from Howick,<br />

and handler<br />

Themba<br />

Dlamini are<br />

pictured with<br />

Minimoo<br />

Crimson.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

ESTELLE<br />

SINKINS<br />

Minimoo Talitha<br />

was named<br />

grand champion<br />

and junior<br />

champion at the<br />

Dexter championships,<br />

With<br />

her is owner<br />

Frank Hinze, and<br />

handler Musa<br />

Hadebe.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

ESTELLE<br />

SINKINS<br />

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