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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Mongo the steer may now be Mongo the steak, but it isn't too late to give the dethroned state fair champion his title back, a judge has ruled.
Officials ruled at last year's Illinois State Fair that Mongo's owners had given him banned medicine to treat a sore hoof. They stripped him of his ribbon and gave the title -- and the thousands of dollars it generates -- to the runner-up.
Mongo's owner, 14-year-old Whitney Gray, sued officials -- accusing the state Agriculture Department of failing to follow its own procedures for publishing the rules for exhibitors at the fair.
In his decision Friday, Sangamon County Circuit Judge Patrick Kelley agreed that the state failed to follow those procedures and ruled that the disqualification should be reversed.
The judge awarded Gray attorneys' fees and costs, which were yet to be determined.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/02/14/mongo_the_steer_gets_his_title_back/