**Editors Note: This was a great story that came out of a tragic situation regarding a family out of Mullin. We wanted our readers to be aware of what happened to this family at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. Below is a part of an article from the San Antonio Express News with a link to the full story.**
A boy from the heart of Texas with a fifth-place show goat and a tragic story inspired one of the most emotional and lucrative outcomes ever witnessed at a San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo auction, participants said.
Dustin Mangus, 10, of Mills County was injured in a December wreck that killed his father, who helped care for the goat.
As word of the boy’s hardship spread in the Saturday auction crowd, dozens of bidders rallied the sale price to a record $150,000.
The outcome wowed the clean-cut youth and his family from Mullin, along with stock show officials.
The sale price surpassed the $80,000 fetched by this year’s grand champion steer, and it topped the amount paid for any other animal ever sold at the Junior Livestock Auction, livestock director Jeff Thayne said.
“Showing goats is fun,” Dustin said Thursday, adding that his dad would have been really proud of him.
Though Dustin’s 11-month-old Boer goat had a lush coat and dignified stance, the animal had a habit of nibbling bystanders’ clothing and was ranked only in fifth place by the judges for its breed.
The goat didn’t have a name, Dustin said.
“There’s no sense in naming him since he wasn’t going to be there forever,” he said.
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