Word: oakleigh
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...house. A Pennsylvania packing company bought him for $1.27 per lb. on the hoof, lowest price paid for Steer of the Year since 1923.* Nevertheless, in more ways than one Briarcliff Thickset made history. His breeder and owner was not a Midwestern cattleman but a retired New York financier, Oakleigh Thorne of Pine Plains, N. Y. And not in 31 years had an Eastern steer beaten all the animals of the West and Southwest. Runner-up was a shorthorn called Illini Major, raised on the College Farms of the University of Illinois...