Canyon teen makes FWSSR history with record-breaking Grand Champion Steer sale
A Canyon teen made history with her Grand Champion Steer at the 2023 Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo during Friday's show.
Sadie Wampler, 15, and her 1,343-pound heavyweight European Cross, named "Snoop Dogg," competed against nearly 1,500 other steers to earn the prized title. Later during auction, the steer sold for $440,000 — shattering the previous record of $310,000 that was set last year — to Fort Worth-based insurance broker Higginbotham.
The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is the only major stock show in the state to give all proceeds to its exhibitors.
Wampler is a member of the Randall County 4-H and a freshman at Wildorado School, where she recently became the marketing director for the Wildorado Cattle Company, which describes itself as a "student-led seedstock enterprise, raising registered black angus cattle."
In an introduction on the company's Facebook post, Wampler said she has a "passion for the cattle industry as a whole" and plans to use that passion to better the company.
Founded in 1896, the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is one of the largest stock shows in the state with more than 1.2 million visitors annually, according to the event website. It also the oldest and largest event in Fort Worth — the 13th-largest city in the U.S. with more than 900,000 residents.
Last year's grand champ, named "Steve," was also a European Cross who came from West Texas; his owner, then-17-year-old Tristan Himes was part of the Sterling County 4-H.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Canyon teen makes history with Grand Champion Steer sale at 2023 FWSSR
