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.
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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Handler Piki Duiker is pictured with Corne Els’ junior and<br />
reserve grand champion Il de France ram. PHOTO: ESTELLE<br />
SINKINS<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Show</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Ile de France<br />
Corlee Stoet owners Johan Fourie and Corne Dry with handler<br />
Solomon Pelele and their Il de France ewe, which was<br />
judged the Senior and Grand Champion ewe.<br />
PHOTO: ESTELLE SINKINS<br />
ram champions; the senior champion<br />
ram; the champion ewe lamb;<br />
the senior and reserve senior<br />
champion ewes; and the breed<br />
champion ewe.<br />
Also having a good <strong>Royal</strong> was<br />
Mr Mzobotshe, who bred the junior<br />
and reserve junior champion<br />
ewes and reserve senior champion<br />
ewe.<br />
In the Suffolk regional championships,<br />
the big winners were Twee<br />
Seuns Suffolks.<br />
The Eastern Cape stud bred the<br />
senior champion and grand champion<br />
ewe and the reserve senior<br />
and reserve grand champion ewe<br />
at the <strong>Royal</strong>.<br />
They also had the reserve junior<br />
champion ewe, the junior and<br />
reserve junior rams, the senior<br />
and reserve senior champion<br />
rams, and the grand champion<br />
and reserve grand champion rams<br />
on show.<br />
The Steenekamps didn’t manage<br />
a clean sweep, however, as<br />
Debak Suffolks, based at Memel<br />
in the Free State, managed to<br />
take home the prize for the junior<br />
champion ewe.<br />
In the Dorper Regionals, breeder<br />
Tracy Low swept the boards, winning<br />
every category, including the<br />
grand champion ewe and ram.<br />
There was good comwpetition<br />
in the Il de France regionals, with<br />
breeders from across the country<br />
making the trip to the <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Show</strong>.<br />
Johan Fourie and Corne Dry,<br />
from Corlee Stoet, took home the<br />
prizes for junior and reserve junior<br />
champion ewe, and senior and<br />
grand champion ewe.<br />
The reserve senior and reserve<br />
grand champion ewe was bred by<br />
Corne Els of the Jancor Stoet.<br />
The two breeders swapped places<br />
in the rams, with Jancor taking<br />
home the title for junior champion<br />
ram, while Corlee had the reserve<br />
junior champ.<br />
Els also bred the senior and<br />
grand champion Il de France<br />
on show, as well as the reserve<br />
senior and reserve grand champions.<br />
— ESTELLE SINKINS,<br />
courtesy of The Witness<br />
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