DALLAS -- The book is closed on the 2009 State Fair of Texas after fairgoers spent almost $26 million on food and ride tickets during its 24 days. The fair set a single-day sales record for food and ride coupons Saturday with $3.4 million being sold the day of the annual Texas-Oklahoma football game. More than 92,000 people attended the game. At the annual Youth Livestock Auction, livestock raised by young Texans sold for more than $1 million. Phoenix 1 Restoration and Construction Ltd. paid a record $96,000 for the grand champion steer. A group of State Fair food concessionaires paid $20,000 for the reserve grand champion. The Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy chain bought the grand champions in the lamb, swine, meat goat and broiler categories. The 2010 State Fair of Texas is scheduled for a run of Sept. 24-Oct. 17.
