CTB x Blackbird 8677
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EXAR Cover the Bases 0819B x Pollard Blackbird 8677
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EXAR Cover the Bases 0819B
Pollard Blackbird 8677
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· ½ Interest in the dam of this mating sold as lot 15X for $100,000 to Ankony in the 2019 Pollard Female Sale and is a direct daughter of Vintage Blackbird 4202, who has amassed a progeny sales gross of $574,750 from the 12 head sold prior to her being the $45,000 selection of Riverbend Ranch from the 2019 Pollard Sale after her original $115,000 selection by Pollard and Express from the 2014 Vintage Angus Sale.
· Maternal sibs to the dam of this mating include the $75,000 lot 1 and co-top-selling feature of the 2018 Pollard Sale, selected by Ankony Angus Corp.; the $35,000 selection of Sandringham Farm, Georgetown, KY, from the 2017 Pollard Sale; the $155,000 selection of Vintage from the 2016 Express Big Event, who in turn sold half interest to Lylester Ranch, Martell, NE, for $200,000; Pollard Blackbird 7567, the $15,000 selection of Belle Point Ranch from the 2019 Pollard Sale; and EXAR Blackbird 9725, the $13,000 selection of Wilks Ranch from the 2019 Express Big Event, where a heifer pregnancy was the $9,000 selection of Lylester Ranch.
· The grand-dam of this mating is a full sister to V A R Generation 2100, whose half interest sold for $250,000 in 2012.
· The dam of this mating ranks in the Top 1% for $AxJ, $G, WW, YW; top 2% for $B, $C, $W, CW, Marb; top 3% for $AxH; top 4% for RE; top 10% for Doc, SC; top 15% for HP; top 20% for $F, $M, Angle, CEM.
· 1/2 Possession and 1/2 Semen Interest in EXAR Cover The Bases 0819B, the sire of this mating, was Pollard Farms $200,000 selection from the Express Ranches Spring Bull Sale. "Cover The Bases" is already considered by many to be the most impressive high marbling bull in terms of phenotype and is sure to make his mark on the breed. "Cover The Bases" is a bull that Express Ranches and Pollard Farms are going to heavily use as the sire that can change the image and portrayal of what new age marbling genetics can look like. He has the hip, girth and bone to sire durable as well as high marbling genetics and a pedigree that allows for him to be used breed wide on top donors and brood cows alike. As a point of interest, Cover The Bases is one of the only bulls in the Entire Angus Breed with a +2.07 IMF or Marbling EPD, while offering elite calving-ease, yearling growth and $C and $B values and being built like a 10-ton gorilla!
· The sire of this mating ranks in the top 1% for $AxH, $AxJ, $B, $C, $F, $G, $W, CW, WW, YW; top 2% for Marb; top 5% for RE; top 10% for Angle; top 15% for $M, Milk; top 20% for Claw, PAP.
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