Va. Angus Breeders Show Celebrates Silver Anniversary
BY JULIE GOCHENOUR
Virginia Correspondent
HARRISONBURG, Va. - More
than 300 people were on hand as
breeders took the best of Virginia’s
black Angus around the show ring
at the 25th Annual Breeders Show
in Harrisonburg on Saturday.
According to Jim fplooly of
Washington, Indiana, \fno judged
the show, the Virginia Angus
Association event is one of the
finest state shows in the country
and he challenged any other state
to produce better animals.
The grand champion bull of the
show was the ( champion senior
bull, Waldeck Shocker. The
powerful young bull, a summer
senior yearling sired by High
Voltage on a Sir Williams Geiger
daughter, was exhibited by
Northcote Angus Farm of Forest,
Virginia, along with operations
from New York, Texas, Kentucky,
Missouri and Indiana.
The reserve champion bull was
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Waldeck Shocker, owned by Northcote, as well as a host of
other beef operations, was grand champion bull.
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HF Banbury, the son of HAR Bang
and a Skarship Educator daughter.
Also the champion junior bull, the
April junior yearling was exhibited
jointly by Byrnley Farm, The
Plains, Va.; Huntingdon Farm,
Alexandria, Pa.; and the Creager
family of McLean, Va. The reserve
champion senior bull was R&J
Precision, sired by QLC Win
chester, and exhibited by Lynn
Brae Farms of Roanoke. White
Hall Pulsar, a son of Premier
Celebration, captured the reserve
champion bull spot for White Hall
Farms of North Garden.
Northcote Angus Farm also had
the champion intermediate bull,
Northcote Stride, son of Greenbrae
Chairman and a Pine Drive Big
Sky daughter. The Forest
operation likewise exhibited the
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Zeuswyn Farm of Culpepper. The
junior bull calf champion and
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and Ayrshire Farm, both of
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The grand champion heifer of
the silver anniversary show was
Bridget, a March junior yearling
heifer who took the top honors for
Northcote Angus Farm owners,
Alphonse and Maria Stroobants. A
Cobble Pond New Yorker daughter
out of a dam by Columbus Ad
venture, Bridget was also the
champion junior heifer. The
reserve champion junior heifer,
HF Katie, sired by HAR Bang, was
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champion heifer. Harmony Pure
Pride, the champion senior heifer
and a Premier Independence
daughter, shown by Ayrshire
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eligible for the grand cham
pionship, according to American
Angus Association rules.
Dogwood Knoll Teresa, shown by
Whitehall Farms of North Garden
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was the champion intermediate
heifer. A Pine Drive Big Sky
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Grand champion female at the Virginia Angus Breeders
Show was Bridget, shown by Alphonse and Maria Stroobants,
owners of Northcote Angus Farm, Forest, Va.
edged RA Windsong of Jacs,
another Pine Drive Big Sky and
Columbus Adventure combination,
into the reserve champion in
termediate spot for Northcote
Angus Farm and Jacs Ranch of
Bentonville, Arizona.
Two Northcote calves also took
the champion and reserve
champion senior calf honors.
Sarah Lynn Hill of Forest
exhibited the champion, Northcote
Evita, a daughter of Cobble Pond
New Yorker and a dam from PS
Power Play. Neenah Hill exhibited
Northcote New World, also a New
Yorker daughter but from a dam
by Ken Caryl Mr. Angus for the
reserve. The junior calf cham
pionships went to White Hall
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Janessa Jane, an HA Wrangler
daughter, while Anne’s Celebrity,
sired by Harrison, took the reserve
for junior member Anne Jones of
Forest.
Northcote took top honors in the
group classes and also exhibited
the grand champion cow/calf pair,
Ellamin Miss World and her calf,
Northcote New World. The pair
also took the champion spot for
cow with embryo calf. The reserve
grand champion cow/calf com
bination was also the champion
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Pine Drive Big Sky daughter, with
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