Fort Worth is a hair show with divisions and not totally breed specific. Example: Angus, Hereford, Polled-Hereford, Shorthorn, American Crosses and European Crosses. Each division is separated into Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights the number in each class is determined by the number of overall entries in that particular division. Each year stands alone on where the weight breaks are, because of them trying to even the classes. Now the European class is a totally different "animal", no pun intended. There will be more animals in this division than the others combined, thus resulting in 4 lw classes, 4 mw classes and 4 hw classes. Houston and San Antonio are slick shear shows and break out into individual breeds and weight classes, thus you have more of an apples vs.apples scenario until you reach the final drive. Hope this helps some. I forgot to add all of the calves that made the sale at Fort Worth are now out of the game, hopefully easing the competition. Although many of the big players have a calf for each individual major show, but theoretically speaking Houston should be the easiest to make sale since it is the last date of the Texas Major Circuit. We decided to stay in the Minor leagues the rest of the year and lick our wounds at county.
