A SPOTTED, stout little calf, full of new life, frolicked around its mother at Delungra’s Emross Shorthorn stud where their breeding program is earning accolades once again.

“See her finding her feet?” stud owner Belinda Emery said, watching the two-day-old calf explore her new world.

Belinda and her partner Matt Ross bought the cow, Yamburgan Cloudy, in calf to Royalla Kubal with help from Belinda’s parents, Anne and John Devlin of Banjo Shorthorns.

The new genes bring along new figures in EBVs to enrich the Emross five-generation run of fortune which began with Emross All Gold Alabama, the cow that swept the Champion of Champions female award at the 2013 Ekka.

Her legacy lived on at the 2016 Inverell Show where her 18-month-old daughter Emross Klassic Alabama, or KA, walked calmly out of the paddock and won Best Interbreed Heifer.

“I literally plucked her out of the paddock,” Belinda said.

“It’s been so hot and everything, and we just weren’t into the showing this year, and right up to the last minute I wasn’t taking her, and then we just decided to take her, and I couldn't believe it,” she laughed. “There it was.”

Belinda thought there were over 50 heifers before judges Kelly and Teeny Runzer on March 4, and was impressed by the quality in the ring.

“It was quite amazing, I had no idea we were going to do well,” she said.

The couple passed the blue sash over KA’s head with compliments on the heifer’s femininity.

“‘A front end to die for’, were his exact words,” Belinda recalled.

“I got a lot of comments on what a beautiful heifer she was, and I had people walking up to me and patting her - and then, with the question, ‘Is this the same line that keeps popping up over the years?’, and it is.”

“And they just keep coming back; it’s one of those breed lines that never lets you down.”

I literally plucked her out of the paddock. - Belinda Emery

With help from professional preparers Casey and Nigel Wieck, KA’s flushed brother, Emross Gold Kopy, headed south last weekend for the Sydney Royal. Belinda said no matter the outcome, Kopy’s presence at the show will be about promoting the breed.

“I have some followers at the moment watching him come through, and I think they’re going to have a look at him down at the Royal,” she said.

“It’s going to just be go down there, put him on display, and then in early June he goes to the (Dubbo) national show and sale.”