Show Achievements in 2000

Show Achievements in 2000

Newspaper article about our " Meeniyan stud excels at show" win!

Newspaper article taken from The South Gippsland Sentinel Times, Tuesday October 17, 2000.

Neralie, Mark and Dave Reynolds, with their winning Southdown Group of 2 X ewes and 1 X ram which they exhibited in the Interbred Class at the 2000 Royal Melbourne Show.

Meeniyan stud excels at show The Ivydown Southdown Stud at Meeniyan, operated by the Reynolds family, exhibited at the recent Royal Melbourne Show with pleasing results. Their Ivydowns 58/99 won every scan class he entered, was the highest ever scanned Southdown in Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Ireland and England, and was reserve champion ram aged only 13 months. He topped the scales at 118 kilograms, and had eye muscle measurements of eye muscle area of 39.99 centimetres square, eye muscles depth of 49 millimetres, eye muscle width 106 millimetres and only eight millimetres of fat measurement. The scanning depicts the best cuts of meat available from the animal, and therefore has brilliant breeding potential. Out of a possible 16 classes, the stud's Southdowns won 10 classes outright. Including the Lyngrove trophy, M.C. Herd trophy, the Peter Gorser trophy, the Southdown Australia trophy, the best group of Southdowns under 18 months, the best group of Southdowns any age, objective measurement class, ram under 18 months closely and evenly shorn, reserve champion ram. During the course of the show, Ivydown also sold stud rams to NSW, Tasmania and Victorian studs and sold the selling Southdown ram of the show.

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