Royal pedigree continues winning streak in interbreed bull judging

A 14-month-old bull calf is following in his mother's winning footsteps, claiming glory in the interbreed judging at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

PC Royal Roll U295, exhibited by Pine Creek Angus, Woodstock, was sashed supreme junior champion interbreed bull out of a line up of 13 young bulls.

The young bull had previously been shown at Sydney and at Beef at Rockhampton as a calf at-foot, where his mother PC Miss Great Northern 070 was sashed grand champion Angus female, and was part of the supreme interbreed group - the first British breed to win the group at Rocky. He was sired by PC Royal Roll R017.

Pine Creek Angus stud principal Greg Fuller said he was "jubilant" with the victory.

"It's a privilege to win this," he said.

He said PC Royal Roll U295 had always shown a "lot of potential" and was living up to that.

"He's only 14 months so there's a lot to do in the future," he said.

The bull had previously won both junior and grand champion bull in the Angus judging while his full sister, Miss Royal Roll T347, claimed senior and grand champion female.

Judge Bryce Camm, Dalby, Qld, said the winning bull had caught his eye from the moment he entered the ring.

He praised the bull for its softness in style.

"He will grow out to be a top sire," he said.

"There's a lot of depth in this animal and its been carrying it in a balanced way."

PC Royal Roll U295 weighed in at 792 kilograms with a daily weight gain of 1.62, rump and rib fat measurements of 19 millimetres and 9mm respectively and an eye muscle area of 111 square centimetres.

Mr Camm also had praise for the Hereford exhibit, Tycolah Woodbine U123, shown by Steven and Therese Cowley, Cobbadah, but in the end the Angus bull had "outshone" the competition.

In the 13 head line-up, Mr Camm had originally pulled out a line-up of the Angus, Charolais, Hereford, Limousin, Santa Gertrudis, Shorthorn and Simmental bulls for a closer look, before selecting a second short list of the Angus, Charolais, Hereford and Simmental bulls.

"This is one of the nation's premier beef cattle expositions, and is a superb exhibition of where the cattle industry is in this country," he said.

Mr Camm said something he noticed when buying bulls was the diversity even within breeds as well as across them, saying the junior bulls in the ring were a "fine array of stock to look at".