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Audio and Words by Austin Garner<\/strong><\/p>\n
The ring is lined all the way around with people, every one of them waiting in quiet anticipation. And on the outskirts: It\u2019s standing-room only. The announcer takes a deep breath, turns on the microphone and says, \u201cClass One, please report to the ring. Bring your Class One angus heifers to the ring.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the scene at the Tipton, Iowa, fairgrounds on a chilly March weekend. Livestock trailers and Carhartt jackets are everywhere. People move from the barns to the ring to the wash rack and back again — all with their prized show cattle in tow. These definitely aren\u2019t the cattle you might see on the side of the road. These bovine beauties are colorful, clean and completely complacent — preferring to stand still and get an occasional head scratch instead of wandering through the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n
Showing cattle isn\u2019t an ordinary competition. There are no points to gain or goals to score. Exhibitors enter the ring trying to impress the judge, who looks over the cattle and ranks them. The cattle are judged by a variety of things including bone structure, body thickness and how smoothly they walk about the ring.<\/p>\n
The top two from classes that have between three to ten cattle each advance to the breed championship where the judge picks the first and second place winner for each breed. The champions represent their respective breeds in the Grand Championship at the end of the show, where the judge picks their favorite to take home the win.<\/p>\n