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From: Star-Telegram

Steer sells for record $240,000 at Fort Worth Stock Show

Bidding was fierce during the Sale of Champions on Saturday morning, the finale of the Fort Worth Stock Show.

Lewis Hall, left, Richard Hall, center, and Sheri Hall bid $240,000 for Madilyn Priesmeyer's grand champion steer Bob Marley at the Stock Show’s Sale of Champions. Image credit: Max Faulkner Star-Telegram

Lewis Hall, left, Richard Hall, center, and Sheri Hall bid $240,000 for Madilyn Priesmeyer’s grand champion steer Bob Marley at the Stock Show’s Sale of Champions. Image credit: Max Faulkner Star-Telegram

The price of beef reached a record high last year at the Fort Worth Stock Show.

The grand champion steer, Bob Marley, sold for a record $240,000 in the annual Sale of Champions, the raucous, money-drenched event that closes the show each year.

That figure topped the previous high of $230,000 for the 2012 champion. Last year’s winner sold for $200,000.

The annual junior livestock sale features the best steers, barrows, lambs and goats — out of 11,000 entries — that were exhibited during the Stock Show. By the end of bidding Saturday, the sale had raised a record $3,709,361, outpacing last year’s total of $3,305,919.

Bob Marley — a 1,344-pound European crossbred steer shown by 17-year-old Madilyn Priesmeyer of Round Rock — was bought by a first-time bidder, Fort Worth-based Rxpress Compounding Pharmacy.

“We want to support the Stock Show and help the kids who have put in so much work. It has always been something we have wanted to be a part of. And now that we have the chance, we wanted to be sure that we made a big splash in our first time out there,” said Richard Hall, president of Rxpress.

The grand champion steer, named Bob Marley, was purchased for $240,000 by RXpress Compounding Pharmacy at the Stock Show Sale of Champions. Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner

Hall bid five times to out duel Hillwood Properties for the steer.

The price per pound for Bob Marley comes out to $178.57.

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From: The Denver Post

National Western Livestock show grand champion steer earns $117,000 bid

By Katy Canada, The Denver Post

Sixteen-year-old Macey Goretska was “pretty much in shock” Friday evening after her grand champion steer, Remi, was sold for $117,000 to Ames Construction at the National Western Stock Show’s Junior Livestock Auction.

Remi, who weighs 1,344 pounds, and Macey are from Corydon, Iowa. Macey takes home 90 percent of the winning bid.

Ten percent of all winning bids goes to the National Western Scholarship Trust, which supplies scholarships for students studying agriculture and rural medicine.

“This show has been one of my biggest goals,” Macey said after the highest bid was secured. “It means a lot to me.”

Macey noted that the money she earned would go to her college fund.

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