Strathmore Senator was selected as a Sire for his strong breed phenotype and sheer scale, and he has continued to grow into what we expected as he was purchased as a very young bull. He is producing progeny with dark coats and strong Breed Type with good looseness of skin but still having good navels and tight sheaths on his offspring. He was purchased with no EBVs, so his figures are taking a while to build. As he was purchased late in the joining season, he will have limited sons in our sale, but his wearer bulls are up with the best in their drop for the 2026 sale.
Cree S146, is an eye appealing long bodied Sire, with good early growth indicators, low Mature Cow weight, early puberty and high EMA EBV figures. He was purchased as a heifer bull and used for two seasons as that and has now been moved into our cow herd as his physical size has made him impractical for heifer joining. Very structurally correct he is producing calves with strong growth and good length and thickness. His first drop of calves will be sold in our 2025 Annual Bull Sale. His pedigree is packed full of herd improving Sires and cow lines.
El Nino was purchased in 2023 from Dangarfield as a heifer bull at their annual Sale. He has been perfect for this job for the last two seasons. His temperament is impeccable and so are his progeny. He holds a strong dark red skin type and has developed into a moderate size Sire that carries extreme length and good finishing ability working very well as a heifer bull.
Quartermaster was purchased at the 2020 Nioa on Property Bull Sale. We were impressed with this bull’s style and his genetics. Being an (AI) son of the prolific sire Rosevale Jackeroo and out of a Glen Oaks show heifer. His BreedPlan figures for Rib and Rump fat were strongly positive which was also a contributing factor. He is breeding cattle with strong phenotype and is throwing on his ability to lay down strong fat coverage, we are happy with his overall contribution to the stud. He has produced progeny that his EBV figures have indicated he would, with strong growth and scale along with good fat figures.
Ripper was purchased in the 2020 Strathmore on Property Bull Sale at Blackall for $40,000. We were attracted to him for his out cross genetics overall thickness, quiet disposition and Sire appeal. He had large EMA and IMF figures that we were also attracted to as well as a strong morphology result. Ripper has worked well in the stud producing moderate sized progeny, that carry strong fat coverage and are easy doing fertile cattle. He is represented by a number of these quicker maturing style bulls in his year’s sale draft. His cattle carry the quiet disposition inherited from their Sire.
Remington was purchased at the 2020 Santa Central sale as a lead bull. We were attracted to him for his strong thickness width over the top line, length and his dark red coat type. His temperament is impeccable and is a pleasure to work with as are his progeny. He demonstrates strong EMA and IMF what we were after as well as good scrotal size. We are happy with the quality and evenest of his progeny, breeding well above himself. His top priced son to date sold to Hood Partnership for $16,000 in 2024.
Purchased as the top priced bull at the Yarrabee 2020 Annual Sale at Emerald. He has developed into a Sire with plenty of volume, scale and thickness. When purchased at twenty – four months he weighed 900kgs, DWG 1.17, 150 EMA, Scrotal of 41cms. He is a very active bull siring plenty of calves in a short period of time. Inforce is a strong powerful sire with a lot to offer. He has been breeding consistently, both male and female progeny, his stock carry great carcase consistency and it will be exciting to see what his heifers will bring to the stud in the future years.
Purchased at the Yarrawonga Waco Annual Bull Sale in 2020. At twenty months he weighed 784kgs, 40cm scrotal, 1.18 DWG, EMA 128, Rib and Rump fats of 12 and 9, as a bonus he was a homozygous Poll (PP). He has developed into a big strong sire with plenty of length and scale. We were attracted to his sire Restdown 378 (P) when Yarrawonga purchased him and thought we would purchase one of his sons. He is breeding very dark coated stock with strong breed type, there is a strong representation of his sons on offer this year. A Sire that can really produce some punch in his offspring, with strong breed phenotype.
Purchased at lot 4 for $38,000 in the 2017 Yarrawonga Waco Annual Bull Sale. M134 (PS) a son of Waco Zeus, at 25 months he weighed 900kgs, DWG 1.20, EMA 121, 40 cm scrotal and had a 93% morphology. Purchased for his Santa Gertrudis phenotype, thickness, depth, heavy bone, and quiet disposition. M134 has become our go to sire, he has exceptional fertility siring over eighty calves in a single season. Placing him as the top sire for progeny recorded in one season within the Santa Gertrudis Breed. He has developed into a mountain of a bull and is breeding exceptional progeny both male and female, with his classification rate of his progeny being well over 90%. He is producing what we are aiming for with his consistency of breeding quality, strong poll cattle that carry all the attributes producers are looking for in Santa Gertrudis cattle. Top priced son to date is Benelkay Renovator R014 (PP) who sold for $50,000 to Ben and Amanda Adams Dangarfield Santa Gertrudis Stud in 2022. In the 2022 sale his twenty-one sons sold to average $15,500 with eleven of these selling into studs. 2025 will be the last offering of M134 sons.
Boss a Homozygous poll was purchased as a led bull at the 2016 Santa Central Sale for $17,000. Weighing 891kgs at 22months with a DWG of 1.30kg, Scrotal of 40cm and an EMA of 122. After watching him win his class at the Ekka we thought we would purchase him for his out cross genetics, growth, tropical dark skin type and quiet temperament. Boss has grown into an eye appealing sire, great thickness, and good depth with plenty of scale. He has thrown progeny with strong breed character, and we are seeing strong results through his females in the breeding program. Boss produces exceptional females with scale and breed phenotype. We are pleased with both his male and female progeny. Top priced son to date is Benelkay Quartermaster Q012 (P) selling to Jock Cunningham “Hallcraig Santas” for $30,000 in 2021. Boss is a sire that throws consistency in his progeny producing scale, thickness and heavy bone progeny with dark red coat colour that is hard to purchase. It is pleasing to see his sons making an impact in the studs they have been sold into. 2025 will be the last year of Boss progeny.
