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...show was the portrait of Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner's great Hereford bull, the late Hazford Rupert 81st, which sired $1,000,000 worth of calves. He was, Lea recalled, "a most distinguished, gentlemanly and cordial old bull. He tipped the scales at 1,850 pounds, liked to have his back scratched, and was gentle as a house dog . . . He stood for his portrait not only with dignity but with the skill of an experienced and much interviewed public figure. He was pleasanter and far more interesting than many human portrait subjects I have...
...Royal Rupert 99, son of the famous Hereford, Hazford Rupert 81, was calved on March 23, 1942 on the Sulphur (Okla.) ranch of Roy Turner, now governor of Oklahoma. As Rupert approached adolescence, his general shape and beefiness (as well as his distinguished ancestry) gave promise that he would develop into a bull of bulls. On Jan. 10, 1944, he was sold, unproven, to Glad Acres Farms at Dallas for $38,000-a record for white-faced Herefords...
There had never been a Hereford bull like Hazford Rupert 81st. At the age of three he won the grand prize at Chicago's International Livestock Exposition in 1936. Deep-bodied, square-rumped, the Hereford champion was sold to Cattleman Roy J. Turner, now Oklahoma's Governor. The price was small, only $18,500 for Rupert and nine other bulls. Rupert was withdrawn from the show ring, as Turner thought he would do better on his 10,000-acre breeding ranch in the heart of Oklahoma's "Hereford Heaven...
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