The Houston rodeo’s Junior Market Grand Champion steer “Woozy” brought in a doozy of money.
“Woozy,” a Simmental raised by Blaize Benson of San Angelo, sold at auction for $1 million on Saturday, becoming only the second steer to sell for that much money at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.states Benson has been showing at the Houston rodeo since 2017, except for 2020 when the rodeo was canceled due to COVID.
“I’m incredibly blessed to be here and am grateful to the man above who put me in this situation,” Benson said in the news release. “He works really hard, and we’ve done this since he was eight. It doesn’t go this way very often; I know this is a core memory that he’ll have forever,” Benson’s mother, Chelsie, said in the release.In 2022, the Jordans broke the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo record by bidding $1 million on a steer named Vanilla Ice.“This year, I wanted to defend the world record that I have, and my fellow buyers were nice enough to help me make that a reality,” he said in the news release.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ended on Sunday. Since 1932, the rodeo has committed more than $600 million to Texas youth and education.Rebecca Salinas has worked in digital news for more than 10 years and joined KSAT in 2019. She reports on a variety of topics for KSAT 12 News.
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