REGINA – Dakota Jackson likes drama, barrel racing, boxing and showing cattle.
The 15 year old from Sedley, Sask., was the winner of the first Canadian Western Agribition Extreme junior championship with a Red Angus yearling female named Red JCC Ms Ruba17P.
“I always wanted to be in the supreme and this is just like it,” she said after the show on Nov. 26.
Later that day her father Levi Jackson had a Red Angus cow in the supreme championship that finished in the top 10 of 43 multi-breed females. That cow was grand champion Red Angus at Agribition.
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Along with the honour, the prize money is worth the trip to town.
Dakota received a cheque for $1,500 for having the extreme champion and $100 for winning the grand champion Angus banner, plus scholarship money. The Grade 10 high school student plans to put the cash toward university to study drama or education, while keeping her cows on the side.
Coming to shows is a passion.
“I started showing as soon as I could,” she said.
Jackson made a point of doing her own pre-show fitting and grooming for this event with help from her father, even though others were offering plenty of help.
“It doesn’t seem the same to win when somebody else does it,” she said.
While Jackson admitted to feeling jittery in the ring, nine-year-old Nicki Ross of Innisfail, Alta., did not have a case of nerves as she put her Black Angus heifer through its paces.
The daughter of Hugh and Dusty Ross, she was awarded reserve champion in the extreme show with a 2004 heifer named MVF Rosebud 222P that she owns jointly with Carter Ross and Jonathan Thomason.
An experienced show person, she and this heifer have travelled the circuit this year winning championships at the Calgary Stampede, Brandon and Olds fairs, as well as her division at the Toronto Royal Winter Fair.
Entrants for this new show were between ages nine and 21, and they presented seven breeds plus a commercial event.
