Clint Whitaker’s, Julia Paulger’s cattle win Supreme awards at Gympie Show

Producers from Mundubbera and Kenilworth have won big at the 2023 Gympie Show, with their cattle claiming the awards for Supreme Exhibit and Supreme Cow in the stud and dairy rings.

Producers from Mundubbera and Kenilworth have won big at the 2023 Gympie Show with their cattle claiming the awards for Supreme Exhibit and Supreme Cow in the stud and dairy rings.

Robyn and Clint Whitaker, owners of Whitaker Brahman Stud at Burnett Park, and their bull Whitaker Mt Cruiser, emerged from more than 220 competitors to claim the trophy on People’s Day.

It was an entry essentially of their own design.

“He’s a bull we bred ourselves,” Mr Whitaker said.

“He’s by a bull that we own, and out of a cow that we own.

Clint and Robyn Whitaker with Whitaker Mount Cruiser, who was named Supreme Exhibit at the 2023 Gympie Show.

“His genetic make-up is out of everything we’ve done over the past 20 years,” he said.

“I can honestly say we can’t breed them any better,” Mrs Whitaker said.

The win continued ongoing success for the Whitakers.

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The bull won Supreme brahman exhibit in Sydney this year, and claimed the title of Supreme Exhibit at the Brahman feature show at Toogoolawah in 2022.

Winning the top prize in Gympie was also nice for Mr Whitaker, who originally hailed from near Maryborough, and said “Gympie is sort of my second home”.

Julia Paulger with Adadale Joel Primrose, who won Supreme Cow and Supreme Udder at the 2023 Gympie Show.

The Whitaker’s win topped off a day of competition in which earlier in the day, Kenilworth’s Julia Paulger and her five-year-old cow Adadale Joel Primrose won Supreme Cow and Supreme Udder.

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Ms Paulger, who took over the 60-year-old, 242ha Adadale Jerseys and Holsteins from her parents two years ago, said her family had been exhibiting “for as long as we can remember”.

This year’s winner was in fact a repeat performer, having claimed the same crown in Gympie two years ago as a three-year-old.

“She’s come from a line of many show and Royal Brisbane champions,” Ms Paulger said.

“She’s bred down from them.”

“We’re really pleased with her, she knows her job and she’s beautiful.”