Mr Geddes, a fourth-generation Holstein breeder of Tahora Farm, Tai Tapu, has won the Canterbury A&P Show's supreme champion dairy cow title nine times, but this year the top all breeds spot went to young friend and rival Philippa Trounce (29), of Rakaia, with 5-year-old Fairview Dolman Jazz.
''The monkey is off my back.
''I knew she would be the one to beat ... I'm absolutely thrilled,'' he said.
Jazz qualified for top spot by winning supreme Holstein Friesian earlier in the day.
Her impressive production statistics - 832kg of milk solids in the previous season as a 5-year-old - resulted in her also winning the market milk award for best production.
Last year, she was the Canterbury show's reserve champion Holstein Friesian cow to Tahora Farm's champion title-winning cow.
Jazz was also the New Zealand Dairy Event All New Zealand Show senior in-milk all breeds champion cow and in 2011 was New Zealand Holstein Friesian Association (NZHFA) South Island champion cow.
The Canterbury show win caps off another successful season for Miss Trounce, who began showing stock when she was 7.
Her 2-year-old, Tahora Million Tori VG86, won in the Semex-Holstein Friesian New Zealand On-Farm Competition and went on to take an award in the 2013 Holstein Friesian New Zealand-DeLaval All NZ Photo Competition.
At last year's NZHFA South Island championships, at the Wyndham A&P show, Miss Trounce won supreme champion in-milk cow with Fairview Fortune Lassie. In June, she was awarded the NZHFA 2013 Lenslea Trophy which is awarded for greatest effort and enthusiasm in showing during the season.
The young breeder is the daughter of established Timaru Holstein Friesian breeders Lindsay and Alison Trounce, owners of Fairview Holsteins.
At present, she works for Rakaia dairy farmers Hayden and Jessie Dorman as assistant manager.
Miss Trounce said Jazz would be ''flushed'' and then put back in calf.
Career-wise she planned to go sharemilking with a view to buying her own farm.
In the future, she might establish her own stud.