A West Texas longhorn has unofficially broken the Guinness World Record for largest horn span on a steer.
The six-year-old longhorn, called Bucklehead, showed off his prodigious, tip to tip, 11-feet, 1.8-inch horn span at Lawton, Oklahoma’s Horn Showcase, which ran from October 4 to 5. Guinness is currently reviewing the paperwork before deeming Bucklehead’s record official, so that it can be included in the 2020 record book, according to the San Angelo Standard-Times.
The previous record holder for largest horn span was a seven-year-old longhorn from Goodwater, Alabama, called Poncho Via. In May, his horns measured at 10 feet, 7.4 inches. Bucklehead’s owner is 14-year-old Marceala Gonzales, of Rocksprings, Texas.
She won him almost five and a half years ago at another show when her name was picked during a draw. Five breeders had donated steer to the raffle and when Marceala won, she was allowed to pick the steer she wanted. That was when she selected then six-month-old Bucklehead.
Marceala’s brother, Leandro, is Bucklehead’s handler and exhibitor at the 12 to 15 shows he attends a year. Their mother, Pauline Gonzales, said that Leandro tapes tennis balls to the ends of the steer’s horns to protect them while he’s in his eight-and-a-half foot wide trailer, which is driven by a personal chauffeur.
‘We have to be very careful, he is our big baby,’ Pauline told the newspaper.
Bucklehead is expected to attend the Longhorn Show in Llano, Texas, from October 19 to 21. He was born on October 13, 2013, and bred by Brent and Cindy Bolen of Bolen Longhorns, in Lufkin, Texas.
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