S.A. Stock Show Video

Below is a video of my daughter Jordan showing her Brahman heifer "Noodles" at the San Antonio Livestock show on 2/11/10. Jordan is wearing a plaid western shirt and is the fifth exhibitor to enter the showring.

If you watch the video with the sound on, what you hear during all but the end is a judge from an adjoining show ring commenting on the heifers he just finished judging.  What you hear towards the end, as the judge in Noodles' show ring has the heifers walk out one by one, is the judge commenting on the heifers he just finished judging (including Noodles who placed 5th out of 10).




Judge's Comments:

"The heifer next in the line-up looks good on the stop but when we get her in motion she just doesn't quite flex together quite as nicely as the heifers towards the top of the class. She's a little more refined in her bone, smaller afoot and a little steeper in her rump and hip. She does have some depth of body and fleshing ability and some flank in her."

Apparently the judge had enough of a problem with the way Noodles moved and "flexed together" to drop her from 2nd place (where he had her early on) to 5th.  Here is what the judge at the RGV Livestock Show in Mercedes had to say about the way Noodles moves and flexes:

"When she gets out and moves you love her down her top line as she holds it together quite nicely.

When she gets out and moves you love the flex angle she has through her joints."

So one judge dropped her three spots for bad flexing while another judge loved her flex angle. This goes to prove what I've heard said many times about the judging at livestock shows. "When it's all said and done, it's just one man's opinion."