ABC Sunshine Coast did an outside broadcast from the Gympie agricultural show yesterday. We battled technical issues and heat, but I was stoked to see Noah’s Farm’s “Thoroughbred Racing Piglets” again after walking past them at the Toowoomba Show earlier this year.
This is how it works: Children in the crowd choose a pig and name it. The child who backs the winning pig gets a blue ribbon and an ice cream from a nearby ice cream van. The child who backs the runner-up gets a red ribbon and a slushie. All kids who enter get a green ribbon.
Owner Kevin Kiley tours these racing piglets to all the country shows in Queensland and New South Wales, as well as running a goat dairy in Warwick. He says the piglets are sold to pig farmers when they get too big to race.
See more photos from the Gympie Show on Flickr.
