A six-tooth superfine wool ram from the Bocoble Merino Stud in Eumungerie has taken out supreme Merino exhibit at the Sydney Royal Easter Show this year.

The almost three-year-old has 16.3-micron wool, weighs 140 kilograms and is known as ‘Jude’.

Kicking off his show career at Dubbo Show last year, Jude also took out supreme exhibit at the Great Southern Supreme Merino Show in Canberra in January.

Fifth generation wool grower and Bocoble Merino Stud owner, Malcolm Cox, had a hunch his sire was in with chance to take out the big title.

“There are seven judges so you’re never 100 per cent convinced, but after his win in Canberra we were confident, although you never know what somebody else has got hiding at home,” he told Dubbo Photo News.

“We always say... say you’ve got 10 sheep in a class, the top three will always be in the top three, doesn’t matter who judges them pretty much, but where they are in the order is completely up to the judges.”

The competition ran for three days over the Easter weekend, and Jude was picked as top ram out of circa 130 sheep.

“Judging can be pretty subjective, but basically they are looking at the make and shape and the way his body is built, and then the amount of wool and the quality of wool that is on that body,” Mr Cox explained.

Jude’s win comes as the Bocoble Merino Stud celebrates 130 years in business.

Starting out with a horn flock in 1893, a poll flock was added to the mix in 1988.

Mr Cox has been working on the stud full-time since the day he left school in 1984 and his son, Hayden, is following closely in his father’s footsteps.

After just under a year in showbiz, that’s it for award-winning ram Jude, who is now due to be shorn in the next week and his semen is now available.