The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce offered the top bid of $50,000 for this year’s grand champion steer at the Junior Livestock Champions auction Friday night.
Ricky Bobby, owned by Brock May of Mineral Point, Wis., weighed in at 1,315 pounds.
The reserve grand champion was Black Betty, which weighed 1,317 pounds and went for $33,000. Owner Kaiti Robinson lives in Conroe, Texas.
Of the thousands of junior market animals entered at the National Western Stock Show, only 90 are auctioned off at the the Beef Palace Auction Arena.
Zane Ward, 14, of Leoti, Kan., who won the “Catch a Calf” competition, named his steer Sid — after the clumsy sloth in the “Ice Age” movies. The black-and- white Hereford/Angus cross consumed 25 pounds of oats and up to 5 pounds of hay a day. By auction time, Sid weighed 1,329 pounds. He sold for $7,250.
“I brushed him every chance I got,” Zane said.
The grand champion hog, Spanky, brought $11,000; the grand champion goat brought $11,000; and the grand champion lamb, Kent, brought $15,000. The hog belonged to Drey Marceaux, 18, of Kaplan, La., while the lamb belonged to Justin Willoughby, 17, of Sheridan, Iowa.
Proceeds of the auction go to the winners, a scholarship fund, and to agriculture and rural medicine endeavors.
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