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Black noses are acceptable as long as they are not accompanied by blue tongues or pink eyes.

The sire, Carona Fascination, is correct, but the bull in question was Lynnwood Triumph; Copyright was senior and reserve grand champion the previous year.

That is precisely the reason to preserve the old genetics; had semen from Leader 9th not been available, you would not have been able to produce that "best breeding bull." Of course the old genetics will not work in every situation, but that is certainly not a valid argument against preserving...

Are there any other heritage (native) Shorthorn females in Canada? Let us hope that these three animals are AI'd to some of the classic native bulls whose semen is apparently available in Canada and not the U.S., in order to preserve those genetics for the native branch of the breed.  Ready Go...

Correct. With friends like that, who needs enemas?

March 1, 2017? typo?

The Coby Smith bull of disputed ancestry apparently was Hey Jude, as this is the bull that was blood tested and verified as pure by Ohio State University. (Of course we now know that certain Maine bulls have blood tested as qualifying as pure Shorthorn.) Hey Jude was the 1971 International grand...

This is correct. Juda Ben Hur was the champion and $6600.00 record selling bull at the 1973 National Western Sale. He was an April 3, 1972 born spring calf sired by Hey Jude, the 1971 International Supreme champion. Juda Ben Hur weighed 852 pounds at 206 days and 1000 pounds at Denver. He...

Oakwood Commander, which preceded Commander-in-Chief by a few years, was junior champion bull at the International in 1939 and grand champion at the International the following year (1940).

The following quote, from the 1949 Shorthorn World article cited earlier, refers to Lady Golden 5th, purchased by Oakwood in the Chiles dispersion in 1944 with the six-week-old Commander-in-Chief at her side:           Although she was not in salable condition at the time, Paul Teegardin...

This was back in the day when "Scotch-topped" Shorthorns were popular. If an animal did not have recently imported bloodlines in his pedigree, he was worth less, regardless of the quality of the individual animal itself. In addition, Polled Shorthorns were often regarded as being of lesser...

Sorry about the half-post! to continue:         bull! Red as they come - deep, short-coupled, full-quartered, smooth as a         calf and unusually thick in his covering! Sire's head! Yes! and with it bone         bone and substance. The record of Commander-in-Chief's progeny at the...

The information on Commander-in-Chief I posted earlier was from an anonymous article (probably written by Hal Longley) in the August 10, 1949 "Progress number" of "The Shorthorn World" and from other issues of that magazine and some old Oakwood Sale catalogues. Bill McCeney of Sporting Field...

The Commander-in-Chief bull which appears in the pedigree of Highbank Royal Duke was bred by Pendleton & Co. (R.A. Chiles, Mt Sterling, KY) and purchased as a 6-week-old calf at the side of his dam by Oakwood Stock Farm (Paul Teegardin, Ashville, OH) in the dispersion of the Chiles herd in 1944...