Perth-Waterloo annual Holstein show draws thousands to Stratford’s Rotary Complex

With the Champion and Reserve Grand Champion are from L- associate judge, Jenn Carlton, Tyler Canning with reserve grand champion Sweetview Avalanche Mitsou, and Michael Lupton with the Grand Champion, Up Ridge Alleyoop Freezie, alongside judge Brian Carscadden.

“One of the best-quality Holstein shows that Stratford has hosted for years.”

Those were the comments circulating around the RBC Arena at the Friday night Holstein show, hosted by the Perth-Waterloo Holstein Breeders along with the Stratford and District Agricultural Society.

The number of cattle shown was well up over last year. More than 180 head were shown in front of judge Brian Carscadden (Blondin Sires) from Guelph, Ont.

Up until three years ago, the show was closed to Holstein breeders in Perth and Waterloo counties, but since then, organizers opened the show to other counties. It has now become one of the highest-quality county Holstein shows in the province.

With a very large heifer show, Canhope Holsteins from Palmerston were named the owners of the junior champion, Canhope Major Blissful, with reserve going to Parallel Genetics of Mildmay with Fraeland Alpha Precious.

By the end of the show, Oxford County’s Charlie and Joanne Lupton family, on the Embro Road from the southern edge of Fairview, south of Stratford, claimed both the grand and reserve grand championship banners with their four-year-old Upridge Alleyoop Freezie and their reserve champion red aged cow, Sweetview Avalanche Mitsou.

Honourable mention champion was the spring two-year-old, Carldot Delta Lambda Lilah, from the Perth County farm of Carldot Holsteins for Larry Krantz in South Easthope Township.