A CATTLE stud from Batlow has dominated the major prizes at the Limousin National Show and Sale at Wodonga.
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Ian and Donna Robson exhibited their bull Rev Jaguar J9 to win the top award.
Australian meat Group national livestock manager, Ben Davies of Melbourne was the judge in what was described as a tough competition.
The 24-month-old bull which won supreme champion weighed 902 kilograms and had a scrotal measurement of 41 centimetres with fat scan measurements of 10 millimetres on the rump and seven millimetres on the rib, and had an eye-muscle-area measurement of 143 square centimetres.
Rev Jaguar won reserve senior Limousin bull at the Sydney Royal Easter Show earlier this month.
Up against Rev Jaguar in the final was a grand champion female exhibit from Birubi Limousin stud at Borambola, near Wagga.
Birubi Hellene H15, shown by stud managers Glenn and Susie Trout, was a rising three-year-old cow with heifer calf at foot and also in calf carrying a bull calf.
Hellene had estimated breeding values in the top one per cent of the breed for docility and 200, 400 and 600 day weight.
Meanwhile, at the auction 59 of 67 lots offered sold under the hammer to a top of $14,500, to average $5397.
The top price of $14,500 was paid by Walcha's Jeff and Kerrie Etheridge of Red Rock Limousin stud, for reserve senior champion bull Flemington Joker J33, exhibited by Mr and Mrs Robson, Flemington Limousin stud, Batlow.