GRENFELL’S Grace Eppelstun has won the 2016 The Land Sydney Royal Showgirl.
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Emily Madge of Young came second in the competition and Blacktown Showgirl Dana Velasco was third.
Grace is studying a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Teaching (secondary).
“I talked myself out of it this morning. I asked the judge’s what they were looking for and based on their answer I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t the best ambassador for the agricultural show movement,” she said.
“But I know all 14 state finalists are amazing ambassadors for their own communities.”
The 23-year-old had a big support team of family members in the wings of the amphitheatre, where the announcement took place.
“My father had a double lung transplant 10 years ago so family is everything to us. To have made an accomplishment as amazing as this is another experience we’ve been lucky enough to share as a family,” she said.
Emily, 23, is an active member of the Young Show Society, having joined the committee when she moved to town a few years ago.
She said she has had an “amazing” week at Sydney Royal Show and is looking forward to getting back home to pass on all the things she has learned.
“I’ve learnt so much about the industry and the people around me and more importantly about my self,” Emily said.
CAKE DECORATING: Successful Wagga cake decorator Ken Robinson blitzed the field in the arts and craft section.
He won the Bernice J Vercoe Annual Prize for the most successful exhibitor in cake decorating and sugar art classes 354 to 375. The class was supported by the Cake Decorators' Association of NSW Inc.
CLYDESDALE HORSES: A Clydesdale called Farleton Classic Cavier and exhibited by Peel and Watson of Wagga has earned the supreme champion Clydesdale exhibit at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.
BORDER LEICESTERS: An 87 kilogram milk-tooth ram called Wattle Farm Charlie from Temora has won at Sydney.
Charlie was by Cadell Wonga and purchased in 2014 by exhibitor Jeff Sutton of the Wattle Farm Stud.
Charlie had to beat, Retallack 420.15, from Graham and Isabella Grinter’s Retallack Stud, Ariah Park. The 80.5 kilogram Exceed and Excel son ended up reserve junior, as well as winning the R.P. Harper Perpetual Award.
Meanwhile Retallack also exhibited the champion junior ewe with an Exceed and Excel daughter, which later won reserve grand ewe.
This ewe won junior and reserve ewe at Royal Canberra Show. Retallack also exhibited the top scanogram ram, Retallack 377.15.