News Release
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Wishful Thinking Goes Back-to-Back in the International Junior Ayrshire Show
MADISON, WIS. – Toppglen Wishful Thinking-ET was named Senior and Grand Champion of the International Junior Ayrshire Show on Monday, September 30. She is bred and owned by Tanner, Brennan, Marissa, and Logan Topp of West Salem, Ohio. Wishful Thinking is the recipient of the Lillian & Keith King and Jim King Grand Champion of the Junior Show Award and the $650 Udder Comfort Grand Champion Award. Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand Champion honors went to Bricker-Farms Gibbs Carvella, bred and owned by Todd, Lynsey, Allison Bricker and Lacey, Kinslee and Carlee Binckley of Salem, Ohio.
The winner of the Summer Junior Two-Year-Old class, Rustic-Creek Ringer Skittles, was chosen as the Intermediate Champion. She is owned by Edwyn Gonzalez of Grove City, Minn. Toppglen Kingsire Guinevere, owned by Tanner, Brennan, Marissa, and Logan Topp of West Salem, Ohio, was tapped for Reserve Intermediate Champion. Guinevere was the winning cow in the Junior Three-Year-Old class.
Old-Bankston-Jc Bulletproof-ET, the winning Summer Yearling Heifer, was awarded the honor of Junior Champion of the International Junior Ayrshire Show. Bulletproof is owned by Dylan and Cameron Ryan of Fond du Lac, Wis. Reserve Junior Champion was Stil-Dreamn Chauvinist Jazzasaurus, owned by Jacy, Libby & Ally Brooks Carpenter of Earth, Texas, and was the top Junior in the Fall Heifer Calf class.
Official judge, Brandon Ferry of Hilbert, Wis., and associate judge, Michelle Upchurch, Hebron, Ill., evaluated the 126 junior entries.
Complete class results can be found at www.worlddairyexpo.com.
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