"I’ve been showing since I could walk." Both of her biggest achievements in the show ring came at the Royal. In 2013, at the age of 11, she won Reserve Champion Showperson with a calf named Aphrodite. In 2016 she was Champion Junior Showperson with her heifer Cherry Bomb. Katie’s family, which includes parents Billy and Juanita and brother Owen, operates Indian River Cattle Company, and also helps her grandparents Grant and Mary Elmhirst at Elmlodge Polled Herefords. Each operation runs about 70 head of polled Herefords, Simmental and Angus.
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