Waterford Charolais Youth Team Challenge Trophy
The Waterford Charolais Youth Team Challenge Trophy was first awarded in 2007.
Who is this trophy named for?
This award has been created in the memory of Garnet R Halliday (1956 - 2007).
Halliday was educated at Roseworthy Agricultural College in South Australia and carved out a long career as a mining professional and an agricultural scientist.
Halliday and his family established the Waterford Charolais stud in Orange, NSW in 1997 with one Rosedale polled bull and ten stud females. About six years later they moved the stud to Mount Macedon, Victoria.
Halliday was working on the development of mines in southwest Africa when he died there in a plane accident in 2007. A work colleague described Halliday as ‘a fiery red-head and...a bloody good bloke’.
What is Charolais?
Charolais is a French breed of cattle that was developed in the first half of the 19th century in the Burgundy region. They are bred for meat rather than dairy production. They are reputed to be efficient eaters and have strong maternal instincts.
Who can win this trophy?
The trophy is awarded to a youth team challenge winner.
What happened to the stud?
Halliday’s wife and daughter, Deborah and Sapphire, run Waterford Charolais and have continued breeding, showing and selling Charolais bulls, calving heifers and cows with calves-at-foot.
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