Summerville High School student Caitlyn Smith is this year´s Mother Lode Round-Up Queen. Three young ladies competed Sunday night for the silver crown. Smith, Mallory Wallace and Valerie Lagattuta spoke, modeled different fashions and answered questions during the pageant at the Sonora Elks Lodge.
Judges totalled scores to pick the winner, but not all the points came from the pageant. Saturday´s event, the Queen´s horsemanship competition, accounted for 30 percent of the total vote in choosing this year´s winner.
The 2003 Mother Lode Round-Up Parade was again a huge success. The constant rainstorms of the past few weeks disappeared, giving way to brilliant sunshine and warm temperatures. Of the 168 separate entries, these 32 were honored as best-of-class:
| Class 1 | The Tuolumne County Cup | Peppermint Creek Carriage Company |
| Class 2 | The Mother Lode Round-Up Sweepstakes | Country Doctor Davey Wiser & Horse Bettle Bailey |
| Class 3 | Commercial Floats | A Touch of Heaven Day Spa and Salon |
| Class 4 | Service Club Floats | Tuolumne County Sheriff's Search and Rescue |
| Class 5 | Service Club Floats, Junior | Girl Scouts of Golden Timbers Association |
| Class 6 | Service Clubs, Walking | Sonora Parent Nursery School |
| Class 7 | Special or Comic Floats | Guns of the Chosen Few |
| Class 8 | Color Guards, Walking | Summerville High AFJROTC Color Guard |
| Class 9 | Best Individual Character or Characters, Walking | Thumbs Up Training and Supportive Services |
| Class 10 | Specialty or Novelty Acts, Senior | Mother Lode Shrine Club |
| Class 11 | Specialty or Novelty Acts, Junior (to age 18) | American Sports Acro & Gymnastics |
| Class 12 | Best Pooper-Scooper Entry | High Country Sports Arena |
| Class 13 | Special or Unique Musical Groups | Phierce |
| Class 14 | Majorette, Solo | Tyler Luce |
| Class 16 | Drill Teams | Summerville High AFJROTC |
| Class 17 | Best Military, Group or Individual | Korean War Veterans Association (entry 231) |
| Class 18 | Fire Department Entry | Columbia Volunteer Fire Department |
| Class 19 | Horseless Carriage, Antique or Classic Auto | The Courts Family Fire Company |
| Class 20 | Car Clubs | Redliner Pulls |
| Class 21 | Motorcycle Clubs | Sierra Saints Chapter of the Christian Motorcyclists |
| Class 23 | Color Guards, Mounted Senior | Twain Harte Horsemen |
| Class 25 | Mounted Groups, Senior | Calaveras Tuolumne Cattlewomen |
| Class 27 | Sheriff's Posse (open) | Alameda County Sheriff's Mounted Posse |
| Class 28 | Silver Mounted (open) | California Pinto Rangers |
| Class 31 | Novelty-Fiesta Mounted Group | Shady Ladies of the Mother Lode |
| Class 32 | Fancy Dressed, Junior (to age 18) | Justine Yarbrough |
| Class 33 | Fancy Dressed, Senior | Candy Graham |
| Class 35 | Matched Pairs | Jessica Durnall & Rori Rodriquez |
| Class 36 | Working Western, Junior (to age 18) | Reiley Wivell |
| Class 38 | Future Horseman (ages 1 - 8) | Rachel Davis |
| Class 39 | Horse-Pony Drawn Vehicles | Double M Ranch |
| Class 40 | Miniature Horse Clubs | Shady Ladies "Touch of Class" |
| Class 42 | Other | California/Nevada Moose Association Riding Group |
