Biggest bull or female bust

What was the biggest financial bust ever on a highly touted individual. How about a rags to riches story.You have a bull like jpj that was used for years before he exploded on the scene. How about a bull that was right for the times when the industry changed types? I was trying to think of the bull that sold in the one revival sale that ended up being pha positive and really clunked out in popularity.What great bull was hit by lighting or died to early.

you are thinking of Little Cedar Reno and he tested positive for TH not PHA if i remember right. i believe he brought $110,000

CF Roan Rose?  105k and then died before she calved.  No fault of the owners though, just some really bad luck.

Vegas was had by lightning.

draft pick.  once a $15 bull, then exploded, then subsided.  PHC.  same with ice pick. difference there was ice pick died young.

BLEEDING PURPLE was struck by lightning as well,don't know if it's relevant too this discussion just thought i'd chime in

About Time.

The calf that lead to his rumored $500k sale ended up in the bottom half of his class at the majors.  The new owner ran the price up on his semen to the $200+ range by trying to buy back everything that was on the market.  Now he's just another bull.

A Maine heifer that sold in Hartman's fall sale, a few years ago for $100,000, was found dead a week after the sale. There was an ice storm and the heifer stuck her head through the bars on a gate, then slipped and fell with her legs out behind her. Because of the ice, she was unable to get up and hung herself.

SULL Grey Goose sold for $70,000 and died as a young bull from a snake bite on pasture in Texas.

In 1984, I purchased a bull named Glenford Curt at the Regina Bull Sale for $15,500. This was the era of yardstick cattle yet, and I knew that Curt was at least 2 inches taller than any bulls in the US that had been winning. As soon as I had measured him, a few days before the sale in Regina, I knew that he was probably the next US National Champion bull. I took a gamble and purchased him. (  by the way, he was out of a first calf heifer that sold in one of my production sales for $875- the lowest price I sold anything for that year). Two hours after purchasing Curt, I jumped on a plane and flew to Omaha to attend the American Polled Congress. The next morning while eating breakfast in the hotel in Omaha, I sold 1/3 interest for $15,000 based on the hip measurement I had taken and a picture of the bull. We used Curt naturally from May to July, then brought him in to get ready for the fall show season. In early August, we sold the remaining 2/3 interest in Curt for $45,000 to Granada Shorthorns in Indiana. He went on to become the US National Champion Bull in Fort Worth. Just before he went into the show ring in Fort Worth, Granada  sold syndicate shares and got their money back out of the bull. I kept 800 doses of semen. A few years later I dumped almost all of it. I still have a few straws if someone wants to use a National Champion bull... really cheap! After he was syndicated, Select Sires purchased him. This is one of the few bulls that I know of, where everyone who owned him made money on him, including Select Sires.... and he never really left many decent calves. The syndicate owners were still receiving royalty cheques almost 20 years after he was sold to Select Sires.

This cattle business was a lot easier in that era. All you needed to have a high selling animal was hip height. Now you have to actually have a good animal to get a good price!

How about Evergreen Seville? I think brought $105k or $115k. He got used a bunch & calf pullers & backhoes got used a bunch.

Here more recently was Kolt Cialis, I think Dylan Evans bought her for around $100k .

if you could sell one for 100k,  would you ever buy one for 100k?

Knabe, If you will buy one from me for 100k, I'll buy one from you for 100k. 

Friday Night Lights comes to mind as a bust.  Meyer 734 lived to be a ripe old age but still died way too young.  Who Da Man died too soon as well

Anybody want to trade two $50,000 cats for one $100,000 dog?

Only if I can say the dog is out of a cow I'm trying to get some publicity for.

If SHORTHORN breeders do it a lot, then ANGUS breeders do it constantly.  They are the kings of fake money.

EVERY breed does it. And they all do it A LOT.  But then again, since it happens so often, using a common voiced theory, it must be acceptable.

i wonder how much airing would be at an accountants show.

just goes to show that any well intentioned plan should be temporary or not exist at all.  but then the playing field is always hilly.

Doc said:

How about Evergreen Seville? I think brought $105k or $115k. He got used a bunch & calf pullers & backhoes got used a bunch.

Here more recently was Kolt Cialis, I think Dylan Evans bought her for around $100k .

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are u referring to Cialis as a bust?

what about viagra?

Oh Knabe, you make me laugh!!!