It’s Canowindra Show time again on Friday, September 21 and Saturday, September 22 and there are plenty of events to appeal to everyone’s tastes.
Unfortunately, due to the outbreak of equine influenza, all pony club events have been cancelled until mid-October so there will be no pony club events at the show.
All show horse events have been cancelled until Sunday, September 16. The ban on horse transportation is likely to continue past that date, ruling out the hack and breed rings for Canowindra Show.
This is a disappointment to the Show Society, but they say the show will go on regardless.
On the Friday the Cobley Pavilion will be set up and judged over the morning and a note for all the budding artists and photographers in the district: could all exhibits be at the show office at Central Motors/NRMA by noon on Thursday, September 20 unless otherwise arranged with Deb Rutter (63441832).
Deb has worked hard to gain extra sponsorship for eight of the fine arts categories and the prizes are well worth winning.
Art and photos are not the only things judged in the Cobley on Friday, there are sections open for garden produce, flowers and flower arrangements which always produce a magnificent display. So if you have a green thumb check out your garden and see what you can enter.
The home mades section covers those wonderful cooks out there while for those good at stocking their pantries the preserves section is ready made for you.
For any excellent needleworkers and crafty types you too have many areas for your creations to be displayed, so dig out anything you have created over the past year and enter it now.
Entries can be taken at any time at the show office at the NRMA but please don't leave it to the last day as things can get very hectic and you may have to wait a while, so enter early and save time.
n In the prime lamb section also decided on the Friday, Woodlock Poll Dorset and Dohne Studs have donated two $500 prizes to be taken off a purchase of a ram at their ram sale on Tuesday September, 25, three days after the show.
One of these is for the Woodlock Trophy for Champion pen of lambs while the second $500 is for Reserve Champion pen of lambs, a very generous gift.
n Also occurring and only available to see on the Friday is the prime cattle section where last year, despite the season, over fifty head of cattle were penned and judged.
This year the Champion beast of show is split up into two sections with champion grass fed beast and champion grain fed beast, so go and check out your prime cattle to see if they are ready, for with weight categories ranging from 280kg to 550kg (or over if necessary) there is a slot for your champion vealer, yearling or big beast, so contact chief steward Paul Agostino 63450452.
n Fodder is also judged on the Friday and with the season better to this point there are two sections: baled fodder, be it lucerne, clover or oaten hay, and growing samples of current crops of canola, oats barley and wheat.
So check the schedule for details and go and check out those growing crops and any small bale hay you have left in the shed.
n A shearing competition is being held on the Saturday and this year this competition includes the NSW Blade Shearing Championships.
Put the date in your diaries so you can see the way shearing used to be done and the machine way it is done now. As well as these championships there will be the usual novice, intermediate, senior and open shearing competitions as well as the novice and open wool handling competitions.
If you have never seen a shearing competition it is recommended you go because there is always something to see throughout the day from 8:30am to about 5pm for the open finals, a showcase for the quickest and cleanest of the shearers.
n The organisers thank their sponsors, Cadia Valley Operation, Orange, Kevin Miller and Co, Forbes, Lucerne Foods, Canowindra, Oilplus, Orange, Canowindra Tyre Service, Lachlan Fertilizers Rural, Cowra, Ausure Insurance and Finance, Young, National Australia Bank, Canowindra and Canowindra Pharmacy.
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