Byrne Lea Octane Buttersnap
On April 2nd, judges at the Sydney Royal Dairy Cattle Show chose a five-year-old Holstein cow in her third lactation to be the ultimate interbreed champion. The Wishart family showed Byrne Lea Octane Buttersnap, by Stantons High Octane from Byrne Lea Sid Buttersnap, at Rowlands Park in Mead, Victoria.
Buttersnap also won reserve senior champion Holstein and finest senior udder at the 2022 Sydney Royal Show. The following year, she won the reserve intermediate title at International Dairy Week. “She is a no-fuss cow,” her owner, Kaitlyn Wishart, said.
The Jersey, Rivendell Gentry Toffee, exhibited by Declan Patten, Diane Borba, TR Investments from Traralgon East, Vic, and Irish investor John Tarpey, who entered into the syndicate three weeks ago, won the intermediate dairy interbreed champion at this year’s Sydney Royal. She produced 37 embryos from three collections, sired by Rapid Bay Indiana Gentry and out of Rivendell Velocity Toffee Pop. She won her class at International Dairy Week in 2023 and again this year, but her companion, Mr Patten, said the Sydney victory was her proudest accomplishment.
Impression Victor Olive, the champion interbreed junior female, was presented by Mitchell and Lyndsey Flemming of Impression Jerseys and Holsteins in Newry, Victoria. The 14-month-old heifer was sired by Minstonette Victor of Pasadena Tower Olives. “We co-owned her mother with Jeanette Falls, and we were fortunate enough to breed the heifer with her with the help of some great friends,” Mr. Flemming said.
Five generations of the Wilson family, Shirlinn Jerseys, Westdale, NSW, made history after 50 years of exhibiting in Sydney by winning the interbreed group of three females for the ninth time in 11 years.
