HLC Virtual Show
Showcasing heritage breeds. Educating and encouraging.
HLC Virtual Show
HLC’s Virtual Show is meant for everyone and features all species within our remit. The virtual show is intended to promote heritage breeds, whilst engaging breeders and total newcomers. We invite participation from both domestic and international participants.
The virtual show is held each year on our specially dedicated HLC Virtual Show Facebook page. Running from October through to December. Each week sees the results for a specific species, along with explanations of placings from judges. Show booklets are available for: Dairy Cattle, Beef Cattle, Swine, Dairy Goats, Sheep, Poultry/Waterfowl/Turkeys, Draft Horses and Light Horses/Ponies. Copies of each booklet can be requested here: heritagelivestockvirtualshow@gmail.com
We make every effort to select judges who are all accredited in their particular field and also hold an interest in heritage breeds.
HLC Virtual Show Champions 2022
Glenfiddich Justintime (Galloway) - Grand Champion Junior Female - Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show Beef Champion "An exceptional animal with femininity, mass and muscle. Superbly structured with skeletal width and integrity. Hormonal balance plus high inherent body condition equals fertility. She's a looker and a profit-maker." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: John McIlwraith
Lakotas One Eyed Jack (Red Devon) - Grand Champion Senior Bull/Grand Champion Bull "A powerful herd bull with true skeletal dimension and muscle shape. Long bodied and well structured with good testicle size and shape. Evidence of great hormonal balance. A bull that can add value to the breed and to any herd." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Brad Gibson
PHT Leon 3G (Hays Converter) - Reserve Champion Senior Bull "A well muscled, well balanced bull with tremendous masculinity. Very good foot and leg structure. He could do with a little more testicle size and center body dimension. " Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Russ Sazwan
Lakotas Hallie C45 (Red Devon)- Grand Champion Senior Female "Maternal and easy fleshing with tremendous volume and capacity. She's a balanced female in terms of her skelton, muscling and inherent body condition and her hormones. She's soft and silky with a tremendous udder with good teat size and placement." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Brad Gibson
Stonehedge Tamra 93B (Lincoln Red) -Reserve Senior Champion "An exceptional beef female with femininity, mass and muscle. She's long and deep bodied with outstanding feet and legs. Excellent udder with appropriately sized and spaced teats and a level udder floor. I love the way in which her shoulder blends back into her fore-rib and how soft middled she is." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Patrick Milner
Katie Morag of Catchgate (Highland) - Reserve Junior Champion Female "An exceptional female with great structure, balance and athleticism. She's well muscled, bold-middled and base-wide with a good chest floor. One might smooth her out over her shoulders and neck to make her ever-so-slightly more feminine." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Alice Bird
Opoma Tapuwae Boy (Red Devon) - Grand Champion Junior Bull/Reserve Champion Bull "An exceptional calf with the masculinity, mass and muscle to make a true herd sire. He possesses strength of jaw and muzzle and this width carries through his entire body. A great balance of muscle tone and fleshing ability covering his capacious center body." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Brad Gibson
Sazwan Whiskey 3K (Hays Converter) - Reserve Champion Junior Bull "A calf with a good length of spine and overall volume. Good bone and foot and leg structure. Really strong spined too. Some extra muscle-shape would make him even more competitive. I admire his maturity-pattern and masculinity." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Russ Sazwan
Oakesmuir Magnolia* (Curly) Best Ridden Pony Owner: Jeanette Gladwin
Oakesmuir Magnolia* (Curly) Grand Champion/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show "This mare has a good shoulder angle, strong hip and nice short cannons. Also really like the amount of bone this mare has." Judge: Tracy Dopko Owner: Jeanette Gladwin
LZ Curly Painted Dice (Curly) - Grand Champion Foal "Lovely animal with a strong hind quarter, good angle to the shoulder and a deep heart girth." Judge: Tracy Dopko Owner: Priscella Sijbrand
Bellavista Chancellor (Cleveland Bay) Grand Champion Light Horse/ Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show (2x HLC Virtual Show Light Horse Division Best In Show) Judge: Chrissy Jackson Owner: Sarah Kirk
Champion Gilts - Tamworth "The presented gilts look to be a good group overall. These are promising young animals." Judge: Sharon Barnfield Owner: Jim Wright
Champion Boar - Red Wattle "The presented Red Wattles are all good as a group. Showing carcass quality, good topline and good bone. In some instances we may want to see a little more length in body and the head a little less heavy in comparison to the body. However, as a whole this group is good. These pigs remind me of Duroc in the UK." Judge: Sharon Barnfield Owner: Jen Baker
Rocky Creek Kate (Berkshire) - Champion Sow/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show (2x Best In Show - Swine Division) "This sow has good overall body shape, good bone and strong feet and legs. She also has correct. teats. It is evident she is doing her litter well." Judge: Sharon Barnfield Owner: Adam Arenburg
Buff Laced Polish cockerel - Grand Champion Continental Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Carla Davis
Black Crevecour hen - Reserve Champion Continental Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Carla Davis
White Wyandotte - Champion American Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Justin McKee
Black Cochin - Champion Bantam Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Emily Robb
Aylesbury duck - Champion Duck/Gerald Donnelly Memorial Reserve Champion of Show Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Raymond Dunlop
Grey Toulouse Goose - Grand Champion Goose/Gerald Donnelly Memorial Champion of Show Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Raymond Dunlop
Buff Toulouse Goose - Reserve Champion Goose Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Raymond Dunlop
Beltsville Small White - Champion Turkey Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Jennifer Keys
Beltsville Small White - Reserve Champion Turkey Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Jennifer Keys
Auraucana - Champion AOSB Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Jennifer Keys
Auraucana - Reserve AOSB Judge: Mark Camilleri Owner: Jennifer Keys
Big Ears MIss Fortescue (Mammoth Jackstock) - Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show Donkey "This young donkey most resembles the ideal in this division. She shows great refinement especially in her head and neck with the most correct angles in the shoulder and hip. This foal should make an excellent performance donkey!" Judge: Tabitha Holland Owner: Ron and Suzanne Paddock
Arvin (Navajo Churro) - Champion Ewe Lamb "This ewe lamb had both good body and length and depth, ideal for lamb production. Good legs & feet. Also, it was the best dressed and that gave it the edge." Judge: James Hewson Owner: Shirley Harvey
Waivebank Desire 44H (Cotswold) - Champion Ewe "Good length & depth of body, she has better width in her pelvis for ease of lambing. Generally better conformation than the other presented ewes" Judge: James Hewson Owner: Catlin Holmes
"Murdoch" - Champion Ram/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show "This ram has the best body capacity, length & gigots and is by far the best dressed." Judge: James Hewson Owner: Elwood Quinn
Brambles GGK Tahitian Pearl (Nubian) - Grand Champion Junior/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show Junior "Junior Champion Nubian is the first placed yearling . She excels in general appearance with her style carried through as she walks on a strong set of feet and legs." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Rebecca Lange
Garden Gate CB Burlesque (Nubian) - Reserve Champion Junior "Reserve Junior Champion is the doe 2nd place yearling excelling in body capacity." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Carol DuMont
Desert's Edge Precious Moment (Nubian) - Grand Champion/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show "Best doe in show is the Nubian yearling milker for her advantages in mammary system, having more width to her rear udder and capacity to her mammary system than the other does." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Carol DuMont
Garden Gate SYD Ladybird (Nubian) - Reserve Champion "The Reserve Champion is a very stylish doe in her own right and should be commended for that." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Carol DuMont
Thorcrest Redwood (Nubian) - Grand Champion/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show Buck "Grand Champion is the mature Nubian buck for his advantages in general appearance being smoothly blended throughout as well as his body capacity with excellent length of body." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Lacey-Lynn Bormke
Outlaw's FG Gilbert Goatfried (Nubian) - Reserve Champion Buck "Reserve buck is the yearling Nubian. He is similar in style to the GCH buck and is also very strong in general appearance." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Lacey Lynn-Bormke
Peacock Meadows Lexie (Oberhasli) - Grand Champion Junior Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Luella Cail
Peacock Meadows Delaney (Oberhasli) - Grand Champion "For her strength in mammary system and general appearance, the first placed yearling milker will be my Grand Champion Oberhasli today" Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Luella Cail
Peacock Meadows Katrin (Oberhasli) - Reserve Champion "Reserve in turn for her strengths in general appearance, second will be the Reserve Champion." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Luella Cail
Peacock Meadows Taylor (Oberhasli) - Grand Champion Buck Grand over reserve for his advantages in body capacity, having more depth to his barrel, more width to his chest floor and brisket and being stronger over his pasterns in general appearance than we see over the buck in second place." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Luella Cail
Pat 'r' Swiss's Noah (Oberhasli) - Reserve Champion Buck "Reserve has a long and flat rump and should be commended for that." Judge: Irene Farrow Owner: Lacey-Lynn Bormke
Livingsky Kungfu Franny (Canadienne) - Grand Champion Junior Female "A calf with length, width and rib-shape. She's maternal through her skull, neck and shoulder and powerful in her skeleton with a tremendous hip. She's wide at her base with adequate chest floor, and fantastic width between the pin-bones. She's athletic and flexible on the move with softness in her joints. A calf with bright lights ahead of her. One to watch as she grows and blooms." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Tara Wilson
Triple G Caleb Jazz (Canadienne) - Reserve Champion Junior Female "A heifer calf with expansive forerib and bold center-body dimension. She has very good feet and strong pasterns with good angles on her legs. She tends to be a little cow-hocked, but still extremely functional. She has the balance, refinement and build to be a functional dairy cow" Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Melanie Gagne
De l’Héritage Ultime Brandy (Canadienne) - Grand Champion/Supreme Canadienne/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show Female "A balanced and high quality female with tremendous volume and true dimension. She's functionally efficient with tremendous hormonal balance. She's later in her lactation than her contemporary in class, but her udder quality is still evident with appropriately sized and spaced teats, a level udder floor, good fore-udder attachment and height and width in the rear udder. She has good feet and strong, yet cushioned pasterns. She combines sweetness and softness with strength and power. A real profit-maker." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Melanie Gagne
Ste. Croix Viking Alliance (Canadienne) - Grand Champion Bull/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show Bull "A young herd sire with tremendous skeletal integrity, balance and athleticism. He excels in his center body dimension, base width, chest floor and testicle size and shape. Very good foot and leg structure too. His masculinity, hormonal balance and presence make him my choice for supreme champion dairy bull." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Tara Wilson
Buckhill BIM Myrna (Kerry) - Grand Champion Junior/Peter Wensink Memorial Best In Show Junior Female "A calf with tremendous balance and structural integrity. She's athletic and flexible on the move. She has great dimension but remains feminine and lady-like. Sweet fronted, big and bold in her center body yet still as refined as a dairy or dual-purpose female needs to be. She'll never be the biggest or the thickest or the longest, but she's certainly the best in this division. Balance is valuable." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Jody Jess
Wildshadow Celtic Rainstar (Kerry) - Grand Champion Female "This little cow is functionally efficient with tremendous hormonal balance and high inherent body condition. This makes her fertile and profitable. She has amazing balance, athleticism and flexibility. Bold and soft in her center-body, smooth and elegant through her fore-quarter, and maternal and long through her hip. She has a very well balanced udder with good suspension, attachment and teat-size. The type of female that the cattle industry needs to move towards. Balance! Hormonal Balance plus Inherent Body Condition equals Fertility." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Jody Jess
Cappanahane Martin (Kerry) - Grand Champion/Supreme Kerry In Show "A masculine and smooth made herd bull with athleticism and volume. He has great character through his neck and head and blends back seamlessly from his shoulder into his fore-rib. He has chest-floor and base width making him a 3-dimensional powerhouse. I'd like to give him a little more heel depth and better feet, but he's a great one with influence to burn in the Kerry breed." Judge: PJ Budler Owner: Felicity McGrath