Rene Stud, Culcairn, shines at Bendigo Elite White Suffolk Show

The broad ribbon for supreme White Suffolk exhibit was awarded to their April 2014 drop ram, Rene 509.14.

The 138-kilogram ram won reserve senior ram at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo in July, and has show success is in its blood.

Scott Mitchell said the ram was by a Rene-bred ram that won junior champion ram at the sheep and wool show in 2013 and the ram's maternal grand-dam Rene 42.07 had three show ewes in a row, so the family performed embryo transfers on her to ensure she produced a ram.

The champion ram's full brother was placed in reserve.

"We want to keep these bloodlines going, so we're planning on keep him (the supreme exhibit ram) in the stud," Scott said.

Judge Graeme Collins, Merribrook stud, Milloo, said he "rapt" with the supreme exhibit whose impressive 54 millimetre eye muscle depth scan was indicative of its "excellent carcase traits".

For Mr Collins, it was the first time judging at the Elite Show, but he was on the starting committee of the event and has judged at royal shows.

"For the fourth Elite Show, the exhibitors should be commended for a fantastic showing of quality sheep," Mr Collins said.

"I am really rapt with my champion ewe and champion ram. Both showed great White Suffolk type and had adequate muscling and genuine appeal for both stud and commercial operators."

He said the show-topping ram caught his eye as soon as he entered the ring in the pair of rams class: "He's a very complete ram whose excellent carcase traits are coupled with white, bright wool, and he paraded extremely well."

The Rene stud also picked up junior champion ewe with an August 2014 drop ewe in her show debut, with their team of 32 sheep across White Suffolks and Poll Dorsets (shown at the concurrent Australasian Dorset Championship also at Bendigo).

"It's the best team I've ever bred," Scott said.

The ram beat the grand champion ewe, exhibited by Paul and Karla Day, Sunnybanks, Tasmania.