Forget the Paris Olympics, two young people from the Australian sheep industry have claimed prizes at the World Young Shepherds competition held in France.
The competition tests skills including shearing, sheep health assessment and electric fence building.
Gabbie Horton, 25, who works on a sheep property near Yass in New South Wales, was named the top female in the competition and finished in second place overall. "We saw so much of France and they were just so passionate about their history, their culture and their sheep.""It was interesting for the Australians because we work with the largest numbers of sheep on a very commercial scale," she said.
"We had the Spanish, African, French, all the European teams, we had nearly 100 people doing the Nutbush in southern France, it was so good," she said.The Nutbush dance is an Australian icon — but it owes its origins to a teachers' meetingDeep inside the permafrost lies a doomsday vault holding the seeds of humanity. Only one person has taken them out
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