This question is very similar to "Who is the greatest baseball player or who is the best race horse of all time?" The answers could range from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to Albert Pujols or from Man O' War to Citation to Secretariat. It all depends on your point of reference. The answer to my favorite Shorthorn bull of all time has changed over the years. When we were first getting started, and I was probably a little impressionable, my quick answer would have been Bapton Constructor. I was so enthralled with him that I picked a heifer to show in my first year as a 4-Her mainly because she was a granddaughter. Ted Aegerter used to buy Shorthorn feeder cattle for us in South Dakota and picked up a few heifers from Thiedes for us. I picked out Clara 141st from that group and got 3rd in a class of over 10 at our county fair. Clara never had a calf. My next 'hero' would have been Leader 21st x. A white heifer we raised, Oakview Augusta's Secret x, was my first grand champion at the Iowa State Fair (in the junior show, she was second to the reserve champion in the open show). The Leader 21s did well for us. The next superbulls were probably Columbus and Dividend. I was poor at the time and couldn't seem to afford offspring of either, but I did admire them. Trump would be next in line and I would consider him my favorite of all and not just because he's the latest in the order. Constructors were good at the time, but quickly fell out of favor. Leader 21 was popular, then went about 20 years with no use and now has found a small resurgence. Columbus was good for a few years, but hasn't been used much for 25 years at least. Dividend cut a wide swath, but wouldn't be anywhere near as popular today as he was. Considering Trump would be nearly 20 years old and has consistently maintained a huge influence over this time, he would be number one in my opinion. I am extremely happy with my Big Jake bull, a son of Trump, and am looking forward to the day that I have 40 producing daughters of him.