![Champion Light Middleweight and Grand Champion Unled Carcase. Bred by Heath Birchall. This steer achieved a 95.83 point carcase score. Champion Light Middleweight and Grand Champion Unled Carcase. Bred by Heath Birchall. This steer achieved a 95.83 point carcase score.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/69fUThMh3V6mENHE7Nwkb5/a7e2ffd5-95e0-4fd5-9d01-7ee1c753b6ee.jpg/r0_119_1280_961_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
![St Mary's College Gunnedah took home a swag of ribbon from Wingham Beef Week. Photo supplied. St Mary's College Gunnedah took home a swag of ribbon from Wingham Beef Week. Photo supplied.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/69fUThMh3V6mENHE7Nwkb5/02e882e2-60d7-478d-a106-a894cdf79c0a.jpg/r0_191_2048_1511_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
It would not be an understatement to say St Mary's College Gunnedah, headed home from Wingham Beef Week with a boot load of broad ribbons.
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In ever competition at the event held, at Wingham showground, the school was successful.
None more so than in the carcase competition where they dominated the unled and led awards taking out the supreme champion carcase with their unled champion that scored 95.83 on the hook. The steer scored a perfect mark for market specifications and in the meat quality section an MSA index of 65.35.
Sired by Wallawong Password the entry was bred by Heath Birchall and surpassed the other 139 entries on its way to the top title in the chillers at Wingham Beef Exporters.
The Wallalong Premium Beef and Birchall team have enjoyed a great deal of success at Wingham Beef Week for a number of years and 2023 well and truly continues that tradition.
In the led classes the champion carcase and reserve champion led carcase both came from the one class in the heavy middleweight category and they were both Braunvieh entries from St Mary's College.
Only a fracture in the score separated the pair on the hook. The school had paraded the champion middleweight led steer with their Braunvieh entry.
Other wins for the school were reserve champion Pen of 2 Unled Carcases, Champion Heavy Middleweight Unled Carcase, Light and Heavy Middleweight Jackpots winners and the overall Jackpot winner,Champion School Meat Judging Team and Individual and Champion School Beef AppreciationTeam.
Congratulations should also be given to for the husband and wife live judging team of Tyson and Courtney Will from Delungra.
The majority of their live champions went onto record similar results in the chiller.
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![St Catherine's Catholic College winning entry on the hook - champion led and lightweight carcase. Picture supplied. St Catherine's Catholic College winning entry on the hook - champion led and lightweight carcase. Picture supplied.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/69fUThMh3V6mENHE7Nwkb5/6b871d3b-e33f-4b25-8f7d-1bed8eb4a7e2.jpg/r0_0_1280_960_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Breaking up the broad ribbon haul by St Mary's College were the Upper Hunter's two Catholic high schools St Joseph's Aberdeen and St Catherine's Catholic College Singleton.
St Joseph's reserve champion overall led steer a Limousin cross entry won the reserve heavyweight carcase ribbon with a score of 91.24. The steer was bred by Neil Nelson, Singleton.
While St Catherine's entry a Limousin x Angus x Speckle Park heifer was the champion lightweight carcase having won the same ribbon in the led classes. The heifer was bred by Ross Badior, Badior Beef, Singleton.
In the light middleweight classes the champion carcase was a Santa Gertrudis entry from Kempsey High School and the reserve champion carcase was a Charolais cross entry from Macleay Vocational College.
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![Champion Heavy middleweight goes to Saint Marys Gunnedah with their Braunvieh Steer Picture supplied. Champion Heavy middleweight goes to Saint Marys Gunnedah with their Braunvieh Steer Picture supplied.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/69fUThMh3V6mENHE7Nwkb5/666d7823-49a0-4e10-b819-f0fec7c0c6c7.jpg/r0_191_2048_1342_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
![Wingham Beef Week. Picture by Showcase Branded Ag Marketing. Wingham Beef Week. Picture by Showcase Branded Ag Marketing.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/69fUThMh3V6mENHE7Nwkb5/24f49f93-5271-4bd2-bbb8-f7cf22dbd99b.jpg/r0_0_2000_1333_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)