A swirl of emotion crossed Maddie Peterson's face as she heard the bids coming in for her 1,422-pound steer on the last day of the Great Frederick Fair Saturday.

From $10,000 to $11,000, then $12,000, the bids cruised past the total of last year's grand champion steer at the Youth Livestock Auction. The auction this year had 350 animals up for bid, ranging from turkeys, to pigs, goats and cows.

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