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‘Good’ lamb Tuscarawas County Fairhelps HouzeT-R/Eric AlbrechtSHAWN HICKS GIVES HIS SISTER, LORI, A BOOST SO SHE CAN SEE BETTER The Sugarcreek youngsters were viewing the animals at Old McDonald’s FarmSugar creek, Maplewood farms share honorsSpecht Hobalara Farms on RD 1, Sugarcreek, and Scott Platfoot of Maplewood shared grand champion honors in the Eastern Ohio Shorthorn Show held Sunday during the fair.Hobalara Farms, owned by Dayton, Ed and Charlie Specht, took rosettes for showing the grand champion bull calf and reserve senior and junior champion bulls. Hobalara also had a blue ribbon winner in the late spring yearling bull class.Platfoot showed the grand and junior champion female calves and won a blueribbon in one other class.Reserve champion bull calf, reserve grand champion female, champion bull calf and calf champion honors went to Woodside Farm, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Eisiminger Son of Waynesburg, Pa. Woodside Farm also won five blue ribbons.Other rosette awards went to the following:Senior champion bull — Fairall Farm, Richard Fairall, Frazeysburg.Reserve junior champion bull — 10 M’s Shorthorn Farm, R. L. McLaughlin, Woodsfield.Reserve senior champion female — Blue Rock Shorthorns, Ronald Bates Family, Blue Rock.Senior champion female — Toby Knipe, New Concord.Reserve calf champion — Charles Bell and family, Nashport.Reserve junior champion female — Don Ulry and son, Johnstown.It was “baa baa bad sheep’’ for most contestants in the 4-H super showmanship contest Saturday morning at the fairgrounds, but Holli Houze had a “good lamb’’ and gave it much of the credit for her victory in the competition.Houze, a member of Tuscora Trail Blazers, won the unique competition, which pits showmanship winners from all regular Junior Fair livestock events, by finishing first in sheep, the contest’s final event.The super showmanship contest is “a fun thing for the competitors, houze but you can tell they want to win,” explained Cindy Lattner, 4-H extension adviser. The contest forces the showmanship winners to compete with animals they did not show during the week.Lattner last year had said she hoped the contest would catch on and become a popular event, and it apparently has. Last year some 25 fairgoers attended, but 70 parents, relatives and friends of contestants sat through the event Saturday.HOUZE, 19, OF Sugarcreek, won in horse showmanship to qualify for Saturday’s competition. She said it was her first super showmanship experience and she was a little apprehensive going in.“My goat was a wild one,” she said with a laugh after the contest.However, the 10-year 4-H member started strong, finishing second in the rabbit showmanship and winning in chickens. She also picked up a second place in dairy judging and said she knew she was close to the trophy going into the final two events — goats and sheep.KERI KLOPFER, another horse showmanship winner who was to finish second in the super showmanship contest, won the goat division, and it all came down to the sheep.For some unknown reason most of the sheep were “spooked” sometime during the contest and got loose from their handlers, running around the show arena. At one point, a sheep owner in the audience who had loaned a lamb to a competitor got up and went to his flock to obtain a substitute.“But I had a good little lamb,” Houze said.“I had no trouble.”Houze finished with 550 points to 500 for Klopfer and 425 for Melanie Steel, who gained entry in the contest by virtue of a dairy showmanship trophy she earned Thursday.
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Dover Times Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 23, 1985
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