World Dairy Expo 2008 is now just a memory, and for the owners of Thrulane James Rose, an Excellent 97 point Registered Holstein cow from Quebec, Canada, that memory is supreme. Rose was named the 42nd WDE Supreme Champion. Exhibited by Pierre Boulet of Montmagny, she was bred by Thrulane Holsteins of Elmira, Ontario. Winner of the International Holstein Show’s Aged-Cow Class, the seven-year-old is sired by Shoremar James and her dam is Thrulane Roxy Lee.
More than 2,600 animals paraded on the colored shavings, shown by 890 exhibitors from 37 states and seven Canadian provinces.
Since 1993, Pierre Boulet has owned 98 All-Canadian and All-American nominees. He has won Premier Exhibitor several times at the Quebec International Show and Quebec Spring Show. Rose was previously named Grand Champion and Supreme Champion at the 2008 Expo Quebec.
Reserve Supreme Champion of the show was Old Mill E Snickerdoodle OCS, bred and exhibited by Allen Bassler, Jr. of Upperville, Virginia. Scored Excellent-94 with an Excellent-97 point mammary system, the ten-year-old show veteran is a seven-time class winner, five-time World Dairy Expo Champion, and was named Supreme Champion in 2003. At six years and nine months of age, she produced 33,426 pounds of milk, 1,405 pounds of fat and 1,176 pounds of protein, with a lifetime production of 167,977 of milk, 7,725 pounds of fat and 6,213 pounds of protein.