Whitney Earns Grand Title Honors At Pa, Goat Show # Ik fjm BY BETH N. GRAY Bedford Co. Correspondent HUNTINGDON - “I don’t know. I’ll keep my fingers crossed,” replied Anne Whitney when asked if she and Winterbury Marvin’s Caress, a 3-year-old Nubian, would repeat their best of show per formance of a week ago at the Delaware Valley Goat Association Show. They made it two in a row here June 21 at the sanctioned com petition staged by the Penn sylvania Dairy Goat Association. More than 500 head were shown. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Ted Hoover presented the champion rosette for the Miss Pennsylvania class to Ann Whitney. The class featured Pennsylvania bred and owned animals. - -aarten gi ,npbv jy /jda Trimer (left). Reserve honors went to the goat owned by Jon Merkle. Dolly Peifer showed the grand champion Recorded Grade with reserve horihrs going to the entry owned by Glenn Fox. As the seven breed champions in the senior doe show lined up in search of the top prize, judge Joe Kimmel of Broughton, 111., noted, “There’re some very nice dairy animals here, some ribs showing and udders bulging. That’s what we like to see.” As he singled out Whitney’s Nubian, he added, “She’s cleaner in all her joints and has the advantage of extension in the fore udder and depth of rib. ” In close contention with the Nubian, Kimmel said, was the La Mancha grand champion, Jan Hareth Hed’s Surave Rachel, owned by Christopher Worden of Greensboro, Md. Susan Meas of New Albany exhibited her grand champion Toggenburg, Poet Hill Till Macaroon, a 3-year-old, to the best udder of show. Kimmel requested the competitors be milked out so he could determine each udder’s flexibility, collapsability and pliability. In giving his nod to the Toggenburg, he said she “was carrying as much milk into the ring as any doe in the show’’ and praised her extension of fore ud der, width and capacity. In the junior doe show, for animals not yet in milk, Meas earned best of show for her Nubian yearling, Gatewood Tough Cookie. Ann Miller of Furlong stood in with the best buck of the senior show, a La Mancha, Mountain Magic Dynamic Ace. Christopher Worden bested nearly 150 head in the youth show to take the prize for best of show honor with his Nubian, CH Wor den’s Acres Elizabeth. Other leaders, with the grand champion listed first, followed by the reserve grand champion, in cluded; Senior Doe Show Alpine- Sinking Springs Vanessa Jonathan Merkle of Warriors Mark Earth Dance Lynde s Minnie Robert and Jennifer Gourley of Ligomer La Mancha - Jan Hareth Hed s Surave Rachel Worden CH Laurel Ridge Blossoms SC Heidi Dawn Spitler of Newmanstown .champion challenge winner GCH Jenny Jump Rocksprmg Dixie Ann Miller Nubian- Bnarwood Farm Foxxi Finesse Whitney CH Worden s Acres Elizabeth Worden champion challenge winner CH Wmterbury Marvin s Caress Whitney Oberhasli Brt Ra Bar Fraulein Lee Blouch of Bethel One Acre RC Wisteria Loins Lieder ol Manorville N Y Saanen - Walnut Bottom J R Artemis Tncia Tnmer of Alexandria GCH Sinking Springs Vic tona Merkle Toggenburg - Poet Till Macaroon Meas Rockspring Chal Laurie Lynn Miller champion challenge winner Poet Hill Till Macaroon Meas Recorded Grades - Spruceup Oottie s KoKo hurl Dolly Peiter of Herndon Gold Star Panama s Target Glenn L FoxofMt Pleasant Junior Doe Show Alpine Conno-Q Valley Magic Rhapsody David Kopp Jr of Prospect K Lee SC Margo Kevin Power of Flemmgton N J La Mancha Laurel Ridge WW Hazlenut Spitler Shirley s Zelda Brenda Shirley of Salt sburg Nubian Gatewood Tough Cookie Meas 40 Crossing Silver Belle Tnmer Oberhasli Bn Ra Bar Starfire Blouch One Acre WWW Peggy Sue Lieder Saanen 40 Crossing Art Apple Blossom Tnmer Coxes Creek Acre Marcia Buddy Spoerlem of Rockwood Toggenburg Hoggs Hideaway Oixys Delight Dennis and Kathny Hogg of Grove City 40 Crossing Strawberry Shcake Tnmer Recorded Grades Conno-Q Valley Princess Liz Kopp Lily s Snowball Spoerlem Buck Show Alpine Amor B Mercedes Benz Lorraine Eschbach of Kempton Earth Dance Lad s Let tenus Gourley La Mancha Mountain Magic Dynamic Ace Miller Kidding Hills WW Snow Apollo Eschbach Nubian God s Gift Hannah M Mark Nancy Tnmer of Alexandria Chalfort Touch of Midas Clarence Walker of Somerset champion challenge winner CH Amor MM Brenna s Brandon Barbara Cramer of Dover Saanen Sun Down Herd Nedifer Nancy Tnmer Bearer Hollow Clay Mar s Jake Jay R Ansell of Somerset Toggenburg Bn Ra Bar Ho Magic Lee Blouch of Bethel Gold Star Pan Dor Rocky Fox Youth Show Alpine Sinking Springs Vanessa Merkle Looses High Black Stockings Christine Me Meramm of Philadelphia La Mancha Jan Hareth Surave Rachel Worden CH Laurel Ridge Blossoms SC Heidi Spitler Nubian - CH Wordens Acres Elizabeth Worden Sheaffers Wild Kingdoms Sandy Brenda Stroup of Richfield ' Oberhasli Shallow Brogk Spanish Angel II Mark Blouch Wind in the Wood Kaila Pamela Erskine of Butler Saanen 40 Crossing Aartemis Crystal Tncia Tnmer GCH Sinking Springs Victoria Merkle Toggenburg CH Bn Ra Bar Ho Bndgetle Mark Blouch Bn Ra Bar Daisey Mae Mark Blouch Recorded Grades Pheasant Valley Flame Andrew Turmsta of Lewistown Shade Mountain Cupcake Stroup jpio iggL g a.o challenge class for Susan Meas, New Albany (left). Reserve grand champion honors went to the 2 year old owned by Ann Miller, Furlong. Jon M Alpine. Jennifer Gourley of Ligonier showed the reserve grand champion Alpine. best of show honors with her 3-year-old Winterbury Marvin’s Caress. Earning reserve champion Nubian honors was Christopher Worden’s entry. r r