Artist: Richard Stewart Halstead (born 1947)
Robert Hall Jr.
HALL, ROBERT JR. (born 1930), inducted 2019
A native of Scott County, Kentucky, Bob Hall grew up on his family’s farm producing tobacco, rye, wheat, corn, feeder cattle, hogs, sheep, and hay. While participating in a National 4-H youth congress at the Chicago International Live Stock Show in 1947, Hall toured the Saddle and Sirloin Club portrait gallery and was inspired. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1953, he managed purebred Angus herds in Bloomfield, Kentucky, and Duchess County, New York. He served in the army as a veterinary food inspector, 1955–1957. Returning to Lexington, Kentucky, Bob Hall accepted the position of Beef Cattle Herdsman at the University of Kentucky, under Dr. W. P. Garrigus (who would also become a Saddle & Sirloin inductee), from 1958–1964. In 1964, he purchased a livestock feed mill in Lexington where the brand Hallway Feeds was created in 1983. The mill became the only family-owned, equine-focused feed manufacturer in the country, supplying successful Thoroughbred breeders and trainers, as well preeminent horses in competitive English and Western disciplines in the United States and abroad.
Involved in the formation of the North American International Livestock Exposition, Hall served on the executive committee, representing sheep from 1975–2012. He was the first inductee into the University of Kentucky (UK) Animal Sciences Hall of Fame (1987); and a recipient of the Harold Workman Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award (2014), the UK College of Agriculture Distinguished Alumni Award (2016), and many other lifetime achievement awards and recognitions.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 102