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calving, Amy Trimmer stands with her World Dairy Expo
class-winning heifer at the family farm.
Her Dream Came True
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Mixed with nervousness about
the upcoming show and the long
trip was disappointment that her
grandparents would be missing
from the sidelines of her first ma
jor show. Neither would the
Youngs, who had also watched
April mature on the show circuit,
be able to attend the Expo.
After arriving in Madison and
finding April comfortably settled
in the bam, Amy took the advice
of several show professionals to
observe the show process, see how
it eas done and then get a good
night’s sleep.
“It was a big ring and lot of peo
ple, but it really wasn’t that bad,”
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Amy remembers of the show that
more or less passed in a blue of
excitement that next day. “April
didn’t behave real well in the ring.
She side-stepped from all the peo
ple and was very alert, like she
wanted to see everything that was
going on.
“It seemed like judging took
forever,” remembers Amy of the
thoroughness of judges Brian Gar
rison, Ohio, and Dennis Patrick,
Maryland, in assessing the nearly
40 head in the Expo’s spring year
ling class. “April was the second
one pulled out, so then we stood
there and waited.
My heart stdpoped when they
finally motioned me to lead off.
And everyone clapped. “Those are
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two of the memories that stand out
for Amy about the monumental
experience of a dream coming true
at age 17.
Around Amy’s neck was
placed, Olympics style, a blue rib
bon with a medallion.
Though Amy didn’t know it at
the time, the dream was not yet
over.
April was returned to the bams
and Amy finally relaxed while the
remaining heifer classes were ex
hibited.
Then, she and April re-entered
the arena for the heifer champion
ship, the only junior division ani
mal to be included among open
class contenders for the junior
honors. April finished as the
junior division junior champion
and earned a third-place honorable
mention in the open class runoff.
Then it was time to share the
dream, with calls home to their
family and to the Young family.
Finally, still in near-shock, Amy,
Shirley and a host of friends and
supporters went to dinner to
gether, then hosted a celebratory
party in the bams.
“I was back home until it all
really hit me” says Amy. She re
lives her dream periodically with a
video of the event that Shirley
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taped, along with videotapes of
classes and winners put out by the
Expo. The Trimmer kitchen and
dining area overflows with show
memorabilia, many of them
April’s winnings, from the direc
tor-style chair and thermal cooler
to the prized Expo ribbon.
“When Amy leaves home, we’ll
have to redecorate,” teases Larry
Trimmer of their daughters’ boun
ty of cattle show awards. One item
of memorabilia not on display,
though, is the purple shirt.
Purple is a favorite color of
Amy’s and she wanted to wear
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