THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, May 17, 1995 TAG: 9505160149
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 04 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MARY REID BARROW, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 77 lines
The Market Steer Class competition at the 4-H Livestock Show and Sale at Princess Anne Park last weekend signified the beginning and the end of two 4-H careers.
Shane Horsley, president of the 4-H Livestock Club, is headed for Virginia Tech in the fall. This was his last 4-H show and sale and he went out in style. His massive black steer won the highest award of the show, grand champion.
Kellye Vaughan, 11, had raised lambs for the show in the past but this was her first steer. Though little Kellye could hardly see over her big, brown animal's back, the steer lumbered off with a reserve champion ribbon.
More than 60 4-H'ers gathered with their steers, hogs and lambs to participate in both market classes and showmanship classes last Friday and Saturday. Following the competition an auction was held where the animals were sold to the highest bidders.
Shane's steer was purchased for $5,446.25 by Dan Thrasher of Elbow Road Farm Inc. ``That's the highest price we've had in the last five or six years,'' said Don Horsley, Shane's father and chairman of the livestock show and sale.
Kellye's steer went for $3,981.25 to Southern States Chesapeake Association. ``For the first year for a steer, that's fantastic,'' Horsley said.
The goal of the auction is to average around $1,800 per steer, he explained. The 4-H'ers have about $1,000 to $1,200 invested in their steers, not counting their time.
Kellye was a bit surprised at her success ``I knew he'd get something,'' she said, ``because he was long and tall, but I never knew I'd do this good.''
On the other hand, Shane, who has won a number of 4-H honors over the years, was really hoping to do well. ``That's how I wanted to go out,'' he said.
The Horsley family also walked away with the honors in the Market Hog competition. Shane Horsley was grand champion again in both the Pen-of-Three Hogs and Single Market Hog classes and his younger brother Ryan was reserve champion in both classes. Winners in the Market Lamb Class were Katy Beltz, grand champion, and Hilary Pavlidis, reserve champion.
Winners in the showmanship classes were:
Steers: juniors, Lisa Kovacs, champion, and Brandon Atwood, reserve champion; intermediates, Dennis Hoggard, champion, and Brendan Albert, reserve champion; seniors, Ryan Horsley, champion, and Christy Hoenig, reserve champion.
Hogs: juniors, Amanda Baker, champion, and Kellye Vaughan, reserve champion; intermediates, Crystal Beltz, champion, and John Chappell, reserve champion; seniors, Robert Kovacs, champion, and Jennifer Talbott, reserve champion.
Sheep: juniors, Lisa Kovacs, champion, and Brandon Atwood, reserve champion; intermediate, John Chappell, champion, and Nicole Orsargos, reserve champion; seniors, Hilary Pavlidis, champion, and Ashley Kovacs, reserve champion.
Robert Kovacs won Overall Senior Showman. ILLUSTRATION: Staff photos by D. KEVIN ELLIOTT
Katy Beltz, 9, of Virginia Beach shows her lamb, which earned her a
fourth in the Junior Showmanship class Saturday at the 4-H
Livestock Show and Sale. Beltz was grand champion in the Market Lamb
class on Friday.
Tyler Kellam, 11, and her lamb placed second in the Junior
Showmanship class. She took a third and a fourth with a steer.
Danny Dawley, 9, of Virginia Beach cleans his hogs for the auction
portion of the 4-H Livestock Show and Sale.
by CNB