We would like to welcome you to the Blackout Jackpot 5! The Showtimes Magazine is excited to once again be hosting our jackpot with the Green & Gold Showdown! Our Show Program has everything you need including a show schedule, judge bios from both Josh Elder and Randy Daniel, hotels, awards, scholarship info, judging contest, a look back at our first four shows plus much more! We would like to thank you for attending this year’s show. Be sure to pick up your free copy of our new March/ April 2017 Sire Edition. Also, download our free Showtimes App to receive push notifications with class alerts and winners. Throughout the weekend we will be offering updates, photos and videos on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo, App and Website. Plus look for videos and official photos on Monday!
We greatly appreciate all of our friends that continue to help put on this event year after year. The Blackout Jackpot 5 is our biggest event we have ever held. More events, more awards/prizes and the most unique theme you will find at a show anywhere in the country! The Blackout Jackpot / Green & Gold weekend is always one of the events we look forward to every year. We always enjoyed jackpotting our show steers growing up. The Blackout is a way to help give back to a program that means a lot to us. We hope you enjoy your stay in Loveland! Good luck at the show!
Contents 5 Josh Elder 7 Randy Daniel 8 Awards 9 Schedule Enter Scholarship 10 History 15 Clinic/Team Fitting Judging Contest 16 Sponsors
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The 2017 Blackout Jackpot 5 Heifer Judge is Josh Elder from Dunlap, Iowa! After attending Black Hawk Community College, Josh started work at Sullivan Farms where he has been for the past 12 years. He is the sale cattle manager for the operation. Josh travels the country looking at and buying cattle. Sullivan Farms has 2 major production sales, multiple online sales and they sell numerous cattle privately at all times of the year. They also show cattle all across the country at major shows, fairs and national junior heifer shows. Josh is one of the head professors for Stock Show University helping to educate the youth in the show cattle industry for Sullivan Supply and SSU. He has had the opportunity to judge shows across the United States including the NAILE in Louisville, Kentucky! We look forward to Josh sorting the Heifers at this year’s show!
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The 2017 Blackout Jackpot 5 Steer Judge is Randy Daniel from Colbert, Georgia. He manages the Family Ranch – Partisover Ranch. They raise Angus and SimAngus cattle. Randy is married to Beth and has 2 adult children, Buck & Whitney. He has 1 ½ grandchildren. Randy Daniel’s judging career has carried him to 39 states and three countries; Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. He has judged nearly every major show in the country. He has judged the Junior National shows for 12 breed associations and the Junior Steer shows at Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Oklahoma City, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, etc. Randy loves the Jr. Shows and has been looking forward to The Blackout Jackpot.
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