San Antonio steer show

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chambero

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Calves had to be really fat to get pulled.  For example, we had a pretty good yellow Troubador x Yellowjacket calf in Class 2 AOBs that Greiner took a hard look at on the way in and on his initial walk by.  We didn't have him fat enough for most judges (real surprise with that breeding huh), let alone Greiner.  You could practically see Greiner turn his nose up at him when he put his hands on him.

I thought Greiner did a fine job.  Most of the calves that everyone knew about ahead of time got pulled.  No real big surprises.  He stayed true to form in that he'd pick power over pretty if everything else was equal.  The champion was really, really good as you'd expect.  He wasn't afraid to use a middle weight or even a light weight in a few cases for Breed/Res Breed Champs.  As long as they were fat.

As Jeff alluded to in his article on Cattle.com, he was old school when it came to judging technique.  He pulled nothing on the walk in, made a pass by all of them on butt view before he handled any, and then felt of every calf.  It was quite a contrast from Fort Worth, although I did hear one dad very loudly cussing a blue streak on the fence when Greiner didn't look at his calf long enough on the way out the gate in an AOB class.  I couldn't help but chuckle.
 

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He did what people thought he would do.  He picked meat wagon market ready cattle without a lot of regard to soundness.  He was consistent and gave each kid a look.  Did a good job bringing the good ones of his type and kind to the top.  There were a lot of good ones and I think he did a good job overall.
 

Texas Dude

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We were also class 2 AOB, got the gate. Greiner was easy to follow I thought. Picked good cattle. I had no problems with him, other than taking one home. Haha.
 

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I think is kind of funny and sad at the same time, there are 4 replies to this post and they all state basically the same thing the judge did a good job, you could follow him and his choices made sense. This is what we want from a judge, the sad part is only 4 people come on to say he did a good job but 100 or more will come and scream if they do not agree with the decision. I appreciate the fact that the ones who posted the positive comments did so, apparently doing a good job gets little recognition as compared to doing a suspect job where it gets all the attention. Once I read the names of the ones who posted it makes sense, people who tend to be positive and informative. I would hate to be a judge, It must be like that old saying "Doing a good job around this place is like peeing your self in a dark suite, you get a warm feeling but nobody notices."
 

chambero

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For rational people, its easier to take "getting the gate" if you know your calf got looked at hard.

Mr. Greiner does get his recognition in the fact that he gets asked back to judge Texas majors (he did Houston a few years ago and now did San Antonio). 

I understand why people didn't like the Fort Worth judge, but it really didn't bother me.  I don't know what the head count was at San Antonio, but probably just a little smaller than Fort Worth.  But class sizes are half or less.  Greiner had three days to judge slightly fewer cattle than Johnson had to do in two days (really a day and half).  But if Greiner did Fort Worth, he'd pretty much do it the same way he did San Antonio.  Just different styles - one is the girl that tells you she really, really likes you but just doesn't want to be your girlfriend while the other raises her nose and laughs at you.  End result is the same.
 
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