2004 Coffs Harbour, NSW

New South Wales hosted the 2004 Championship Show at Coffs Harbour in Northern N.S.W. The move away from the capital city proving to be popular with the visitors and local fanciers.

The BSNSW were extremely grateful to the BCV for allowing N.S.W. to go out of turn thereby combining the BSNSW fiftieth anniversary with the thirtieth anniversary of the ANBC. The Saturday and Sunday dinners were used to acknowledge the life members of the BSNSW and also the founding fathers of the ANBC, in addition an auction of a cricket bat signed by Matthew Hayden was staged to raise money for the 2005 championship show. BSNSW members hope their initiative in running an auction of this kind will be the start of a continuing tradition.

The council decided to establish a trophy to be given to class winners each year, South Australia and Victoria to produce the prototype. A decision to review and possibly change the style of the trophy every seven years was also agreed to. The hall of fame has now been established and put in place, the agreed criteria being seven class wins or four wins in the same class. These awards were presented at the Sunday night dinner. The following fanciers being inducted into the Hall of Fame:

  1. Henry George              23 wins
  2. Ian Hanington             13 wins including 7 in the fallow class
  3. Kelwyn Kakoschke      11 wins
  4. Sheppard & Flannagan 9 wins
  5. Tanner                             8 wins
  6. Rowe                                8 wins
  7. A & C Druery                  8 wins

These awards were calculated from 1983 onwards as all zones were competing from this year. The fanciers acknowledged as establishing this information were Peter Glassenbury South Australia, Alistair Home Tasmania and Ron Hunt New South Wales.

A decision to alter the criteria for electing the president of the ANBC was agreed to, the old system of the current host providing the president for the next year has been replaced by the next years host providing the president. This allowed Warren Wilson New South Wales to step down after the 1st July, 2004 and Leigh Downey would then take over until after the 2005 Championship Show held in Victoria.

Office bearers also elected by the council were ANBC Secretary Alistair Home, Public Officer Dave Butters, ANBC Historian Ron Hunt.

This year’s show was a two-day event with the usual problem of insufficient time for the various sub committees to meet, this problem was the only downside to this year’s event.

The eight-year record winning streak of the Victorians came to an end this year with New South Wales winning with a record number of class wins.  Thirteen class wins were recorded by New South Wales fanciers surpassing their previous best.

Judges for this year’s show were:

  • Alan Baxter, Victoria
  • Peter Dodd New South Wales
  • Jim Fletcher Tasmania and;
  • Henry George, South Queensland

Final scores were:

  1. New South Wales                               464 points
  2. Victoria                                               415 points
  3. South Queensland                               400 points
  4. Western Australia                               286 points
  5. Tasmania                                            262 points
  6. South Australia                                   246 points
  7. North & Central Queensland             237 Points

 

Ron Hunt, 2004
ANBC Historian