La Vernia resident Mattison Koepp's Grand Champion Steer, Alley Cat, sold for nearly $400,000 to Shane Vaden, the CEO of Vaden's Drywall, Plaster and Masonry at the Jr. Sale of Champions for the Fort ...

Alley Cat’s win as grand champion steer at the Fort Worth Stock Show interrupted a years-long streak of victories by European ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo’s 2025 grand champion steer sold Saturday morning for $375,000. The ...

The big winner was Mattison Koepp, 16, from La Vernia, with her steer Alley Cat, an American Crossbreed.

It didn’t take long to make yesterday’s Junior Steer Show Grand Champion a rich young woman.

The judges say this year’s competition was stiff. They looked for a combination of physical features, genetics and a “wow ...