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JUDD WEIL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Kansas Classic Cattle Show returns to Hutchinson in 2023 Feb. 3 through Feb. 5.
“I think this is our seventh year to have it in Hutchinson, and my wife and I started it after another jackpot showing stopped,” Dylan Evans, show organizer, said. “It's a huge jackpot show for kids.”
Evans added there is not really a set beginning age to until when kids in this type of show age out.
Usually in a jackpot show there are cash awards.
“Also, a jackpot is just a term for more of a low key, non-major event,” Evans said. “So, not like a State Fair, not like a national western, more of just a weekend outing.”
According to Evans, the organizers of the Kansas Classic Cattle Show will provide the cash awards, as they usually do, based on their numbers.
The weekend cattle event is a heifer and steer show, and will begin with a heifer show on Saturday and then showmanship that Saturday evening. Sunday will be a steer show.
“Our heifer show is usually 150 to 200 head and then our steer show is right about 100,” Evans said. “Our goal is always about 300 head. Between 250 and 300.”
Additionally, there will be drawings for different prizes.
“Sometimes we do a TV, sometimes we do air pods, an iPad,” said Evans. “Different things like that we've done. It's just another way to give more things out to the kids.”
Evans, a member of the Kansas State Fair Board, grew up showing livestock.
After he was done showing livestock, he helped a group of kids from his community show all over the U.S.
Evans said he just wants to continue putting on a livestock show in Kansas for the kids in order to give them some place to present their animals.
“My wife and I showed cattle all over the nation and we aged out and we don't have any children so this is just something we're still really passionate about and like to do it,” Evans said. “It's usually a fun weekend, I’m glad it's only one time a year because it is a very busy weekend.”
For more information about this year’s Kansas Classic Cattle Show, including registration forms and costs, visit thekansasclassic.com.
Be sure to follow the Kansas Classic Cattle Show Facebook page for updates.
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