DIVISION XI: SHOWMAN OF SHOWMEN CONTEST

Consultants - Carl and Penny Church

 

Contest Time:             12 p.m. Friday, beginning in the Horse Arena.

Then contest will move to the Gibbons Arena.

Then contest will move to the Holman Livestock Complex.

 

General Rules

1. Contestants will show each specie as a group class. Species will show in the following order: Horse, swine, goat, sheep, dairy and beef.

2. Show animals will be furnished by the Junior and Senior Consultants of each species. Contestant’s contest animal will be selected at random by a drawing. No contestant will show their own animal, or an animal owned by a member of their immediate family. If possible, only feeder calves will be used for the beef classes.

3. Classes will be judged and placed like a regular showmanship class. Points will be awarded as follows:

First – 1 point

Second – 2 points

Third – 3 points

Fourth – 4 points

Fifth – 5 points

Sixth – 6 points

1. The contestant with the lowest number of total points will be named Showman of Showmen.

2. In a case of a tie, one specie will be pulled out of a hat, except horses since that animal will be shown in the horse arena and contestants will not return to that area after leaving. The species will not include the animals shown by the two tied showmen. The two showmen will show the specie pulled from the hat again and the lowest score wins.

3. Contestants are asked to wear comfortable and appropriate clothing for showing large animals at a fair, (boots, jeans, plain oxford shirt, plain polo-type shirt, etc.). It is the committee’s desire that the judges not know the representative from each specie. Because of this, participants are not allowed to wear clothes that are specific to their specie. White clothes for dairy and dairy goat showmen and western clothes or English riding wear for horse exhibitors are examples of what is not allowed.

4. One exhibitor may not represent more than one specie in the contest.

5. These rules apply to both Junior and Adult Divisions.

6. Once an adult wins the adult divisions, they must sit out five years.

7. Adults and juniors may not represent the same species two years in a row.

8. Once a junior wins the competition, they may not compete again as a junior.

9. Contestants who display unsportsmanlike conduct will be excused from the contest.