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Born Ready... To Win
In a grand testament to what we’ve known for a long time, the Royal Queensland Show MSA Eating Quality Award (Mediumweight - class 6) was won by a Speckle Park infused steer, bred by Born Ready Speckle Park, prepared and presented by M&M Show Steers and Fitting Service.
While ‘BP’ didn’t place in his led class, he exceeded expectations where it mattered most. BP produced rump and rib scans of 7 and 8 respectively, an EMA score of 73 and a meat yield of 60.7% to ultimately take home the coveted blue sash.
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‘BP’ was an F1 Speckle Park steer, by PAR Ace In The Hole 66A out of a Shorthorn-Hereford cross cow (approx. 75%/25% respectively). “We have always had great success with Speckle/Shorthorn cross, it is our preferred commercial combination. We find that the calves are low birth weight, but they are very thick set and have exceptional growth rates. We always joke and say they come out ready to eat - it appears our prediction was correct!” says Brooke Paff of Born Ready Speckle Park.
Matt & Mikayla Black of M&M Show Steers and Fitting Service had been in discussions with the team at Born Ready in relation to showing on of their bulls and were on the lookout for a quality steer to enter in the Ekka.
After receiving a few photos, Matt says BP immediately grabbed his attention. “We took a trip down to see Brooke and Paffy (Andrew) to check out their stud herd and their commercial cattle and once again BP stood out. After agreeing to buy him from Born Ready, we were a little later picking him up than we would have liked due to the wet weather but we knew that the steer would perform well” says Matt Black.
BP is considered to be one of the easiest steers Matt and Mikayla have ever broken in. Matt reports “the day after we picked up BP we had a halter on him and his nose ring was in due to him being so quiet. Then 1 week later, he was in the show ring placing 4th in a large class of steers that had been on feed for months. Understandably, we were very impressed with that sort of result so quickly after only been weaned for 2 weeks and being broken in a week.”
Born Ready and M&M Show Steers and Fitting Service plan on building on this successful combination and have their sights set on more competitions in the future, not ruling out an entry or two in the Feature Breed classes at Sydney Royal show in 2023.
Winners of RNA Paddock to Plate Carcase Awards every year 2016 to 2021
Winners of The Land’s Sire Shootout People’s Choice Award 2020
Pure Bred Herd of 350 Breeding Cows
100 Pure Bred Bulls for Sale each Year
Annual Sale September
