CHAMPIONS FROM CHAMPIONS
ne of the joys of World Dairy Expo is sitting in the seats watching various champion parades of our fabulous dairy shows. O Whether it’s the animals competing for Junior Champion Milking Shorthorn, Intermediate Champion Red & White or Grand Champion Jersey, it’s always an impressive lineup and every year we get to appreciate the unbelievable caliber of cattle strolling in
front of the crowd. This year, while watching the Grand Champion Holstein parade, it was a real pleasure to realize that in years gone by, we’ve cheered for some of these cow’s foremothers as well! There seemed to be a fair number of cattle throughout the week that had some very familiar names in their pedigrees, so we did a little digging and sorted out those 2021 champions that have a ‘family tradition’ of Expo titles!
Perhaps the most obvious is Erbacres Snapple ShakiraET EX-97, the Grand Champion of the International Holstein Show. Her roots with former Expo Champions are well-known - her dam, Miss Apple Snapple-Red EX-96 was the Reserve Senior Champion & HM Grand Champion of the International R&W Show in 2017, and her legendary grandam, KHW Regiment Apple-Red-ET EX-96, was Grand Champion of that show in 2011 and Reserve Grand in 2011.
The cow moving into the Reserve Grand Champion position at the Holstein Show, Oakfield Solomon Footloose EX-94 also walked where her grandam held the spotlight more than a decade ago. Footloose is out of Duckett-SA Braxtn Frisco-ET, the EX-94 daughter of 2-time World Dairy Expo Supreme Champion, Harvue Roy Frosty EX-97.
As you might expect, we return to the direct influence of Apple when we peruse the International Red & White Show champions. The Reserve Grand Champion and Champion Bred & Owned cow of the show - Westcoast Defiant Addison EX-95-2E-CAN - is a daughter of KHW Regiment Apple 3-Red-ETN EX-94-CAN 4*, the Apple clone who was Grand Champion of the same show in 2013.
Sco-Lo Dice Hotstuff-Red-ET topped a competitive fall calf class in the Red & White Show on her way to a Reserve Junior Champion title. If the name Hotstuff sounds familiar, her granddam, Starmark Ad HotstuffRed-ET EX-94 was the Reserve Grand Champion of the show in 2012 as a 5-year-old.
In a further stretch pedigree-wise, the Intermediate Champion of the 2021 International Red & White Show, Scenic-Edge Jordan-Red EX-92, follows the Scenic-Edge path back four generations to a 2009 Expo Junior Champion in Scenic-Edge Jellybean EX94, when she won as a Fall Yearling.
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