Royal Show Agricultural Guide 2018

SUPREME CHAMPION SHEEP
Delight for winning
breeders
Results
SUPREME EWE ON SHOW: Twee Broers Dormer Stoet (Dormer)
TJAART Steenekamp, of
Twee Broers Dormers in
Barkly East in the Eastern
Cape, was thrilled
to have his Dormer ewe
named the Supreme Champion at
the 2018 Royal Show.
The announcement was made
in the main arena of the Royal
Showgrounds in Pietermaritzburg
on Wednesday evening.
Steenekamp was given a R2 000
cash prize from Standard Bank,
a rosette and ribbon, the William
Cooper and Nephews Floating
Trophy and a Royal Show medallion
and rosette.
He also bred the reserve to the
Supreme Champion ram at the
Royal, another Dormer. For his
efforts he received R1 000 from
Standard Bank, a rosette and ribbon,
the New Zealand Corriedale
Floating Trophy and a Royal Show
rosette.
The Supreme Champion ram on
show was an Il de France, owned
by Corné Else of the Jancor Stoet
in Amersfoort, Mpumalanga.
His prize was R2 000 from Standard
Bank, a rosette and ribbon,
The New Zealand Corriedale Society
Floating Trophy and a Royal
Show rosette.
Veteran exhibitor Russell Shorten
earned some of the loudest applause
of the evening when it was
revealed that his Hampshire Down
had won the title of reserve to the
Supreme Champion ewe.
The farmer, from Aliwal North in
the Eastern Cape, was presented
with R1 000 by Standard Bank, a
rosette and ribbon. He also received
the Epol Floating Trophy
and a Royal Show rosette.
— ESTELLE SINKINS,
courtesy of The Witness
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