NATION : Steer’s a Dyed-in-the-Wool Loser
A teen-ager who showed the Ohio State Fair’s grand champion steer will lose her blue ribbon and $28,000 prize because a patch of its coat had been dyed, officials said today.
The Ohio Expositions Commission approved 10 to 0 an agreement reached with the family of 17-year-old Susan Shealy, whose Angus-cross steer Hank won the prize in August.
Jack Foust, general manager of the fair, said officials could not prove suspicions that Hank had also been shown under the name Carl at an Illinois farm show in July--a violation of the rules.
But there was no question, officials said, that a white spot on Hank’s belly had been dyed black, which is against the rules.
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