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| Photos and videos courtesy of Lance Bloyd |
What do you look for in a herd sire?
You might look for a bull from one of the strongest and oldest bloodlines in the industry. You might look for one who had a superstar sire and grandsire and one who was destined for stardom himself.
Cash Prize (born 2001) was the 2005 ABBI 3rd Place Classic Bull of the Year. (After S5 Stray Kitty and 13 Big Deal.) He was a 2005-2006 NFR bull before suffering a career-ending stifle injury in 2007.
He was ridden 3 times in 33 attempts for an average score of 22.41 and a buckoff percentage of 90.91 and is ranked #64 all time on ProBullStats.
Breeding on the sire side:
His sire is 301 Copenhagen Cash. Retired at age 13, Cash was one of the rankest and longest bucking bulls of all time.
Grandsire: Mr. T (Burns breeding)
Granddam: "Cash's mother" (Kish Breeding)
On the dam side:
Dam: Kish 642 (also the dam to Kish's Dirty Deal)
Grandsire: Too Legit
Granddam: Kish breeding
(Point of interest: Copenhagen Cash semen goes for $10,000 a straw. Too Legit semen goes for $20,000 a straw.)
Lance Bloyd of Bloyd Bucking Bulls, whose herd features Kish genetics, purchased Cash Prize from B.J. and Tara Tolman in 2010. He says:
"Cash Prize walks with a limp and drags his right leg behind him a bit [due to the injury that ended his career]. Don Kish bred cows to him in 2008. There are only two 2009 bulls sired by him. We are sure excited about his sons and daughters contributing to the genetic makeup of our herd in the coming years.
He'll be our herd sire until he can no longer breed. Then he'll be put out to pasture to live out his days. A bull of his stature deserves to live out his life. He'll be buried on our property under a big pecan tree in the pasture with the cows."
These are two of his 2011 calves (bull on the right, heifer on the left):
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Click here to see the first bulls in the series. To see some of the calves featured during calving season, click here.
