DENVER, Colo. — Canadian Red Angus breeder Clayton Gibson of Fir Mountain, Sask., won the grand champion bull award at the National Western Livestock Show in Denver, Colorado, yesterday.
Named Six Mile Taurus 519A, the red youngster was also named spring bull calf champion at the annual event. Taurus will be offered at the ranch’s annual sale in April.
The reserve grand champion bull award went to Daniel LaDoux of Agenda, Kansas.
Six Mile also won reserve champion junior bull and was named premier breeder of the show.
Other Canadian breeders did well.
Northline Angus owned by Hector Schneider and family of Ardrosson, Alta., had the reserve champion intermediate heifer and intermediate champion bull with a young sire named Red Northline Goodfella.
Clinton Morasch, owner of Lazy MC Red Angus at Bassano, Alta., won senior champion bull. Born in 2011, the bull was named Red Lazy MC Trooper 21Y.
The Gelbvieh show was also held yesterday.
Rodney and Tanya Hollman, owners of Royal Western Gelbvieh at Innisfail, Alta., won intermediate champion bull with RWG War Admiral 2528.