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DENVER -- Maynard won the biggest prize in Shelby Kroupa's life Thursday when he was named grand champion steer at the 2008 National Western Stock Show.
The 1,312-pound black crossbred topped the 64 head of steers in this year's show, including one exhibited by MacKenzi Dorsey of Satin, Texas. She is the granddaughter of Bob and Barbara Dorsey of Eaton and won the livestock show in Houston last year with a steer that was similar to the one she brought to Denver. That steer brought $80,000 in the Houston sale.
The two steers, however, are not related, she said.
"He's pretty nice," MacKenzi, 17, said of the steer she called Mustard, which was about his color. She said she has another at home she will take to a show in Fort Worth, Texas, next weekend.
This year's winning steer came to Denver from White Lake, S.D., and got his name "from a bus driver back home that's a friend," Shelby, 16, said. She has brought steers to Denver the past three years, but she has never won a prize like the one she got Thursday.
Reserve championship honors went to Kirbe Schnoor of Chowcilla, Calif. Her steer, Houpie, stood second to Shelby's in the same weight division earlier in the day. Two Colorado steers made the final lineup. They belonged to Jace Blach, 14, of Yuma and Layne Crumley, 15, of Akron.
This year's show was judged by Jarold Callahan, a Yukon, Okla., cattle producer, and Doug Dixon, who is the head of the animal science department at the University of Wyoming.
"This was fun for me," Dixon said. "There were good calves to judge and good kids showing them. That's a hard combination to beat."
Callahan said he had not judged at the National Western for several years and was pleased to get the invitation to come back.
"The numbers were better when I was here the last time, but the quality is still the same. The animals on the top end of today's show had excellent quality," he said, noting those involved in the beef business are involved in a new industry.
"With the high price of feed and fuel we're facing it's kind of challenging, but we still have to be able to market a beef animal the consumer wants. It still has to have the correctness and the soundness to perform in the feedlot and has good eating characteristics," he said.
Shelby, who plans to use the money the steer will bring at this evening's sale to help pay her way to South Dakota State University, said she has been getting Maynard ready for the National Western for the past year.
"This is the only show he's been to," she said, noting it will be tough to part ways with him this evening when he goes into the sale ring at the Auction of Junior Livestock Champions, which starts at 6:30 p.m. today.
"I thought he would do pretty good down here, but I wasn't sure he could win. This is a tough show, and you never know. But he's been good and, yeah, it's going to be tough saying goodbye," she said.
DENVER -- Maynard won the biggest prize in Shelby Kroupa's life Thursday when he was named grand champion steer at the 2008 National Western Stock Show.
The 1,312-pound black crossbred topped the 64 head of steers in this year's show, including one exhibited by MacKenzi Dorsey of Satin, Texas. She is the granddaughter of Bob and Barbara Dorsey of Eaton and won the livestock show in Houston last year with a steer that was similar to the one she brought to Denver. That steer brought $80,000 in the Houston sale.
The two steers, however, are not related, she said.
"He's pretty nice," MacKenzi, 17, said of the steer she called Mustard, which was about his color. She said she has another at home she will take to a show in Fort Worth, Texas, next weekend.
This year's winning steer came to Denver from White Lake, S.D., and got his name "from a bus driver back home that's a friend," Shelby, 16, said. She has brought steers to Denver the past three years, but she has never won a prize like the one she got Thursday.
Reserve championship honors went to Kirbe Schnoor of Chowcilla, Calif. Her steer, Houpie, stood second to Shelby's in the same weight division earlier in the day. Two Colorado steers made the final lineup. They belonged to Jace Blach, 14, of Yuma and Layne Crumley, 15, of Akron.
This year's show was judged by Jarold Callahan, a Yukon, Okla., cattle producer, and Doug Dixon, who is the head of the animal science department at the University of Wyoming.
"This was fun for me," Dixon said. "There were good calves to judge and good kids showing them. That's a hard combination to beat."
Callahan said he had not judged at the National Western for several years and was pleased to get the invitation to come back.
"The numbers were better when I was here the last time, but the quality is still the same. The animals on the top end of today's show had excellent quality," he said, noting those involved in the beef business are involved in a new industry.
"With the high price of feed and fuel we're facing it's kind of challenging, but we still have to be able to market a beef animal the consumer wants. It still has to have the correctness and the soundness to perform in the feedlot and has good eating characteristics," he said.
Shelby, who plans to use the money the steer will bring at this evening's sale to help pay her way to South Dakota State University, said she has been getting Maynard ready for the National Western for the past year.
"This is the only show he's been to," she said, noting it will be tough to part ways with him this evening when he goes into the sale ring at the Auction of Junior Livestock Champions, which starts at 6:30 p.m. today.
"I thought he would do pretty good down here, but I wasn't sure he could win. This is a tough show, and you never know. But he's been good and, yeah, it's going to be tough saying goodbye," she said.
