11/06/2025
Pinnacle Pocket Senepols triumph at 2025 Yeppoon Show.
Judge Shane Perry, Strathfield Droughtmasters, Clermont, said stud cattle exhibitors were really punching above their weight with the quality of cattle at the Yeppoon Show this year.
Mr Perry said it was really amazing to see such quality across the breeds from the Bos ta**us to the Bos indicus at a coastal show, agreeing the turnout at Yeppoon was a good thing for the industry.
"Obviously showing takes a lot of time and lot of money...I just take my hat off to all these exhibitors here today” he said.
"They've put the time in and put money in and the cattle are really showing off what they can produce and the beef industry is the winner at the end."
Mr Perry also acknowledged all the young people involved in leading the cattle at the Yeppoon, saying they were the future for the beef industry.
"I am promoting every breed here today and promoting all these young people to stay in the industry," he said.
Mr Perry said the top Interbreed bull, Pinnacle Pocket Manuka, was a magnificent Senepol bull.
He's definitely a credit to the breed and the breeder...you want a bull that has the capacity to serve a lot of females," he said.
"This bull was reproductively sound underneath and...the way he's made up he has the capacity to serve a lot of females in the future...he's certainly a beef breeding machine."
Senior and grand champion bull - Pinnacle Pocket Manuka, Pinnacle Pocket Senepols. Reserve - Pinnacle Pocket Vince
Winner in the Breeders Group was also Pinnacle Pocket Senepols.
Pictured is Yeppoon Show senior champion interbreed bull, Pinnacle Pocket Manuka, with St Brendan's College students, Thomas Spies, Pinnacle Pocket Senepols, Malanda, and Joshua Williams, Granville Station, Jericho. Picture by Judith Maizey, Queensland Country Life.
