Venture is definitely a good female maker. I saw Venture at Schrag's a couple weeks after he arrived from Australia. He was moderate framed, with lots of thickness and capacity and appeared to be very soft made. He was extremely sound in his joints and overall structure. I remember Doug Schrag saying that he thought that the females Venture produced were going to be outstanding.... and he was right.
Venture sons are much like he was designed in their structure but and really not show animals which is probably not a bad thing. I don't think we need every sire in a breed capable of producing a show animal. I think there has to be a good number of sires that can produce commercially acceptable breeding stock and I think Venture could be considered to fall more into this category.
When you consider where he was born and bred, this does make sense. The Dunbeacon herd in Australia is commercially oriented and sells most of their bulls to commercial producers. They are students of structure and adaptability in the cattle they produce. They have a large herd and are one of the oldest Shorthorn breeding operations in Australia and probably the world. (Their herd has been breeding Shorthorns for 170 years)
On a side note, when we started to offer our Major Leroy semen internationally, David McDouall( who owned Dunbeacon with his son) phoned me and said they wanted to sample him in their herd. Their idea of " sampling" a bull in their herd, was to purchase 300 straws of semen. Compared to most North Americans who sample a sire by buying " 5 straws" and less if they can!
To get an idea of what kind of cattle Venture has behind him for generations, check out their website at
www.dunbeacon.com.au . Venture was used in their herd for many years and I sure they still have lots of his genetics in their herd.