Kathryn Dolliver of Stettler, Alta. is this year’s winner of the Calgary Stampede’s carcass competition with a crossbred heifer.
Dolliver’s black female also won the market heifer division at the Stampede’s steer and heifer shows held in July.
The quality beef competition is open to entrants from the steer, market heifer and jackpot heifer competitions.
The winner had AAA60 marbling, a rib eye of 87 sq. centimetres, a Sterling Silver score of 84 and a carcass weight of 727.8 pounds.
Dolliver received $3,000 plus the value of the carcass.
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A Speckle Park entered by Barry Ducherer of Neilburg, Sask., was the reserve champion. It had AAA70 marbling, a rib eye of 97 sq. centi-metres, a Sterling Silver score of 82 and a carcass weight of 735.8 lb.
Ducherer received $2,000 plus the carcass value.
The runner-up was another Speckle Park from Bruce Wrubleski of New Sarepta, Alta., which scored 81 on the Sterling Silver scale, produced a rib eye of 95 sq. centimetres with AAA50 marbling and weighed 786.4 lb.
The cattle are processed at Cargill Meat Solutions in High River, Alta., after the Stampede. Judges look at carcass weight, grade, rib eye size, fat cover, marbling, meat texture and colour.
