Arnold Caddy Memorial Challenge Trophy
The Arnold Caddy Memorial Trophy was first awarded in 1951.
Cattle breeder and doctor
Major Arnold Caddy was highly respected in cattle and sheep breeding circles in Victoria. This was a second career as he had started his working life as a medical practitioner, including a posting for the Royal Navy in Calcutta as Deputy Inspector-General of H. M. Hospitals and Fleets. He returned to Australia in the late 1900s having been in India for more than 20 years.
Red Poll cattle expert
Major Caddy established a stud at Tylden, north-west of Melbourne and a Red Poll cattle herd in about 1913. (The stud was named Chandpara, after a town near Calcutta). In 1918 he was nominated for the council of the new Red Poll Cattle Breeders’ Association, he was president for nine years. Caddy was appointed as the association’s patron in 1940. He also played a role in the establishment of the Faculty of Commerce and Agriculture at the University of Melbourne.
Caddy’s knowledge of Red Polls was recognised by his appointment as a judge for shows in Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A. and England.
Caddy died in 1948, and in 1951 the Victorian branch of the Red Poll Cattle Breeders' Association established the Arnold Caddy Memorial Trophy to be competed for in perpetuity to acknowledge his work for the Red Poll breed in Australia. The trophy was awarded for the Junior Champion Red Poll Bull.
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