Sarah’s Champion Denver Hog Fits Judge’s Image’
Sarah Boyd, left, won grand champion hog at the Denver Fair Tuesday night. Larry
Arnold judged the show.
Showmanship first place winners at Denver were, from
left, Jenny Hoover, overall champion, and first place win
ners Kyle Parker and Gerald Martin.
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Fanning Staff
YORK (York Co.) Tanuni
Grubb showed the grand champion
market steer in Junior Beef Com
petition at the York Fair recently.
“It’s a meat wagon," said Cheryl
Fairbaim who judged the 1,270
heavyweight and the 31 entries in
junior competition.
It was Tammi’s first champion
ship in nine years of showing but
the third time she was named grand
champion showman at York Fair.
Tammi’s advice to youth start
ing in showing is “Be patient.
When the time comes (to win), it’s
great!”
Tears will be shed, Tammi said
of the upcoming parting when
Coby will be sold at the livestock
sale. Coby had been purchased
from Paul Miller.
Tammi is the daughter of Carl
and Brenda Grubb who raise
Angus and Hereford breeding
cattle at Sunset Hollow Farm in
Hanover.
The reserve grand champion
steer in the junior show went to
Hope Long, who was also the
reserve showman. Her crossbred
steer Bugsie weighed 1,230
pounds. Bugsie, named because of
his bug-eyed look, was purchased
from Tim Fitzgerald of Va.
Hope, 13, is the daughter of
York Fair Holds Open and Junior Beef Shows
Samuel and Vicki Long who oper
ate Long View Acres of Airville.
Ironically, Bugsie competed in
the open market show against 55
head and was named grand champ
ion over all breeds.
The grand champion Polled
Hereford Kai-T was homebred at
the Mike and Mardene Firestine’s
Map Farm and shown by Margeau
x Firestine, 13. The Firestines have
about 30 Polled Herefords.
Steve Nelson of Forest Hill,
Md., showed the grand champion
Simmental in the open beef show.
The judge selected the Simmen
tal for its feminity.
The supreme champion bull was
from Salunga Acres, which is
owned by Dorothy Metzler. The
two-year-old named Salunga
Yankee was previously named
grand champion at the New York
State Fair, reserve champion at the
Maryland State Fair, and supreme
champion at the Pennsylvania
Farm Show.
Cited for its very correct struc
ture soundness and well balance,
the champion bull is part of the 125
cow-herd at Salunga Acres in Lan
caster County.
According to manager C.J. Fur
long, Salunga Acres will hold its
fourth production sale on Nov. 7.
In open classes, Tammi Grubb
of Sunset Hollow Farm showed the
Kyle Fleener, right, won reserve champion hog Tuesday
night at the Denver Fair. Show judge was Larry Arnold.
champion Angus bull, which is
owned in partnership with Turning
Point Angus of Benyville, Va. the
bull was a previous champion at
both the Pennsylvania breeders
show and at the State Farm Show.
In the Open Market Beef Show
judged by Greg Kreuger, he said
that all breed champions had
adequate musceling and structure
soundness. “I basically judge
cattle from behind ” he said in
looking for thickness.
Although Krueger said each
breed adds something to the indus
try, he believes the Angus breed
shows more structual soundness
and more of what the industry
wants.
Hope Long showed Bugsie to
take grand champion honors over
all breeds.
Jay Rishel showed the reserve
champion market steer in the open
market beef show. The heavy
weight steer named Guy was the
champion Angus and reserve
heavyweight.
The 17-year-old has been show
ing for three to four years, but this
was his first major win. That same
day. Jay also showed the champion
Hampshire ewe and lamb in the
youth and open shows. Jay lives
with his parents Dick and Becky
Rishel on a small farmette RJR
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
DENVER (Lancaster Co.)
Denver swine show judge Lany
Arnold, Womclsdorf, always
keeps in mind the “image" of what
a great show hog should look like
long-bodied, heavily muscled,
lean and correct
Sarah Boyd’s 270-pound
crossbred gilt met that image Tues
day night at the market swine
championship at the Denver Fair.
“If you wanted to draw an ideal
hog, you’d pretty much get that,”
he noted about Sarah’s supreme
champion.
Sarah, 17, daughter of Deb and
Keny Boyd, Ephrata, is a senior at
Ephrata High School. Sarah
showed a York/Hampshire/
Pietrain crossbred nicknamed
“Patches.”
The gilt has a “spot on her
back,” said Sarah, which helped
her name it. It’s also known as a
Bluebutt hog in the industry.
The gilt was homebred using a
sow that was the “sister to the
champion junior barrow and
reserve overall at KILE last year,”
Hampshires in Seven Valleys.
Here is a partial listing of show
results:
BEEF SHOWMANSHIP
16 AND UP 1 Tammi Grubb 2 Raymond
Slough 3 Travis Reid
13-15 1 Beth Baer 2 Herman Hake 3 Saran
Grim
10-12 1 Donald Sunday 2 Cory Thompson 3
Devin Sunday
10-12 1 Hope Long, 2 Shane Miller 3 Kyle
Grim
8-9 1 Kimberly Long 2 Christopher Harcourl
3 Kurt Long
GRAND CHAMPION SHOWMAN 1 Tammi
Grubb
RESERVE CHAMPION SHOWMAN 1 Hope
Long
BEEF FITTING
16 AND UP 1 Amanda Daugherty 2 Raymond
Slough 3 Bobbi Myers
13-15 1 Herman Hake 2 Cassandra Hake 3
Apnl Daughedy
10-12 1 Donald Sunday 2 Hope Long 3 Cory.
Thompson
B-9 1 Kurt Long 2 Christopher Harcourt 3
Samantha Klunk
3RAND CHAMPION FITTER 1 Amanda
Daugherty
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION FITTER
Donald Sunday
ANGUS
JUNIOR CALF 1 Beth Baer 2 R Jay Rishel
SENIOR CALF 1 Kimberly Long 2 Tammi
Grubb 3 R Jay Rishel
SUMMER YEARLING 1 Tammi Grubb 2 Hope
Long 3 Brett Bishard
JUNIOR YEARLING 1 Kurt Long 2 Philip
Baer 3 Jamie Reid
LATE JUNIOR YEARLING 1 Cory Thompson
2 Brett Bishard 3 Hope Long
SENIOR YEARLING 1 Chnstopher Harcourt 2
Tammi Grubb 3 Tammi Grubb
CHAMPION FEMALE Cory Thompson
RESERVE CHAMPION FEMALE Tammi Grubb
FEMALE BRED AND OWNED 1 Brett Bishard
her father, Kerry, noted. The sow
was AFd.
Sarah will be showing at the
Ephrata and New Holland fairs, in
addition to the Keystone Interna
tional Livestock Expo (KILE) and
state Farm Show.
Reserve overall was a “long
bodied, heavily muscled, shapely
kind of pig,” said Arnold. He chose
the 265-pound Hampshire
crossbred gilt shown by Kyle
Fleener, 14, son of Tim and Sarah
Flcencr, Robesonia.
Kyle, in the ninth grade at East
ern Lebanon County High School,
said he has won reserve champion
hog the past three years at Denver.
The reserve champion hog,
from Kerry Boyd in Ephrata, stood
out as a baby. “It was real long and
clean,” noted Sarah, Kyle’s
mother.
Kyle will be showing at KILE
and at Farm Show.
There were a total of 24 exhibi
tors and 47 hogs at the Denver
Fair. Following is a list of show
placings.
DENVER FAIR
SWINE SHOW
RESULTS
MARKET SWINE
Class 1 (222-229 lbs) 1 Chns Good 2
Justin Martin 3 Dean Uvengood
Class 2 (230-238 lbs ) 1 Jenny Hughes 2
Sarah Boyd 3 Jonathan Good
Class 3 (239-246 lbs ) 1 Chelsea Hoover
2 Patrick Good 3 Gerald Martin
Class 4 (246-255 lbs ) 1 Justin Martin 2
Jenny Hughes 3 Jason Martin
Class 5 (255-262 lbs) 1 Andy Nolt 2
Dean Uvengood 3 Usa Pfautz
Class 6 (260-269 lbs) 1 Kyle Fleener 2
Gary Martin 3 Andy Noll
Class 7 (268-270 lbs) 1 Sarah Boyd 2
Kyle Fleener 3 Usa Plautz.
GRAND CHAMPION SWINE
Sarah Boyd
RESERVE
Kyle Fleener
SHOWMANSHIP
16 and Over 1 Jenny Hoover 2 Lisa
Ptautz 3 Eric Ober
12-15 Years 1 Gerald Martin 2 Kyle
Fleener 3 Renee Hoover
11 And Under 1 Kyle Parker 2 Chelsea
Hoover 3 Andy Gerhart
SHOWMANSHIP CHAMPION
Jenny Hoover
2 Kimberly Long 3 Tammi Grubb
COW CALF PAIR 1 Cory Thompson 2 Hope
Long 3 Jessica Harcourt
PAIR OF HEIFERS 1 Brett Bishard 2 Hope
Long 3 Tammi Grubb
HEREFORD
JUNIOR CALF 1 Amanda Daugherty
SENIOR CALF 1 Tammi Grubb
SUMMER YEARLING 1 April Daugherty
JUNIOR YEARLING 1 Tammi Grubb
CHAMPION FEMALE Tammi Grubb
RESERVE CHAMPION FEMALE Amanda
Daugherty
COW CALF PAIR 1 Amanda Daugherty
SIMMENTAL
JUNIOR CALF 1 Amy Trowbridge
SENIOR CALF 1 Raymond Strough
SUMMER YEARLING 1 Travis Reid 2 Amy
Trowbridge
JUNIOR YEARLING i Raymond Slouan
Katie Myers
LATE JUNIOR YEARLING I Raymond Slough
2 Jamie Reid
SENIOR YEARLING 1 Amy Sweilzer
CHAMPION FEMALE Raymond Stough
RESERVE CHAMPION FEMALE Raymond
Stough
FEMALE BRED AND OWNED 1 Katie Myers
2 Jamie Reid 3 Travis Reid
COW CALF PAIR 1 Raymond Stough 2 Apr I
Daugherty 3 Amy Trowbridge
PAIR OF HEIFERS 1 Amy Trowbridge
OTHER BREEDS
JUNIOR CALF 1 Kelly Ham
SENIOR CALF 1 Bobbi Myers
SUMMER YEARLING 1 Mane Yosi
JUNIOR YEARLING 1 Mane Yost
CHAMPION FEMALE Bobbi Myers
RESERVE CHAMPION FEMALE Mane Vost
FEMALE BRED AND OWNED Kelly Ham
COW-CALF PAIR Kelly Ham
SUPREME CHAMPION HEIFER Cory
Thompson
LIGHT WEIGHT PROSPECT
STEERS
CLASS 12 1 Brett Bishard 2 Tammi Grubb 3
Kimberly Long
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