Millie Taylor-Rose, a 14-year-old from Amelia Park, Toowoomba won the Junior and Grand Champion Murray Grey female with Amelia Park Miss Rose.
Millie’s stud was extablished in 2020.
It was her Grandfather David Tayor who won the Grand Champion Male with his only entry Baroona Park Trademark.
He weighed 870 kilograms, with an EMA of 135 square centimetres and rib fat depths of 16 and 13 millimetres.
Kathryn also showed and won Senior Champion Female with Kingsgrove Rose T1.
There are now three generations of Murray Grey breeders in the family.
Baroona Park Murray Grey stud was established in 1985 with foundation females bought at the Warwick Murray Grey stud sale.
In the early days, bulls were sourced from Queensland and New South Wales studs.
Today artificial insemination is used extensively to introduce new bloodlines, as this allows them to match the characteristics of the cows with the bull’s to produce a calf with the desired attributes.
In this way it has been possible to use genetics from leading Australian Murray Grey studs such as Monterey, Woodbourn and Lindsay.
Baroona Park exhibited its first cattle at the 1990 Royal Queensland Show (the Ekka) at which Baroona Park Felicity was awarded Junior Champion Female.
Felicity’s son Baroona Park Lexington won Senior and Grand Champion Bull at the 1993 Ekka. Since then, we have continued to show stud cattle and steers at local and Royal shows.
“We consider that showing cattle has major advantages for promoting the breed and our stud, as well as providing us the opportunity to compare our cattle with others and to keep up to date with the place of Murray Greys in relation to other breeds,” Baroona Park owner David Taylor said.
“Our daughter Kathryn has been involved with the stud from the beginning and when she returned from working in England in 2006 we transferred one of the good stud females Baroona Park Magnolia to her as the basis of her Kingsgrove stud.
“Magnolia went on to win Senior and Grand Champion Female at the 2007 Ekka and her progeny have formed a solid basis of her stud.”
Fast forward to 2021, when Kathryn’s daughter, Millie, received her foundation female, Baroona Park Millie-Rose, as a Christmas present and Amelia Park Murray Grey stud was established.
To carry on the family tradition, Amelia Park stud won Senior and Grand Champion Female in 2023
2025 will mark 40 years of our family’s involvement with the Murray Grey breed and we are confident that Kathryn and Millie will continue their involvement with the breed into the future.
