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ABS MILLIONAIRES DIE-HARD AND ROY REINFORCE ELITE STATUSDEFOREST, WISCONSIN - March 10, 2006 – Global phenomenon’s 29H8538 Regancrest Rbk DIE-HARD-ET*TV VG-86 and 29HO9023 ROYlane Jordan-ET EX-95 have reached another impressive milestone in their careers. They have both now surpassed 1 million semen units in lifetime sales. "These two globally recognized ABS Millionaire Sires join two other bulls on an elite list of ABS sires to have produced and sold over 1 million units of semen. We recognize the global ABS sales team, and most importantly, our dairy producer customers for this lifetime milestone," stated Scott Bentley, ABS Global Dairy Product Manager. Both ROY and DIE-HARD have sons in the ABS Cornerstone PT Program. DIE-HARD was one of the first ABS Diamond Sires when the program was introduced in 2003. ABS Diamond Sires have over 1,000 milking daughters and offer highly stable proofs and outstanding customer satisfaction. His global popularity has continually increased and today, DIE-HARD has close to 14,000 long lasting daughters in his proof. This Roebuck son is a Gold Medal Sire out of Regancrest Tesk Della EX-90 GMD DOM and his third dam is the great Snow-N Denises Dellia EX-95-2E GMD DOM. One of his specialties is udders where he is over +2.00 for Fore Udder Attachment, Rear Udder Height, Rear Udder Width, Udder Cleft and Udder Depth, which contribute to his +2.04 Udder Composite (UDC). Between this UDC, his breed-leading Productive Life of +2.6 and Daughter Pregnancy Rate of +2.7, it is no surprise that his daughters are standing the test of time in all environments and putting money in dairy producers’ pockets. DIE-HARD has been a long time favorite for use on heifers with his low 6% Calving Ease. ROY is the true high type leader in many global markets, where he is recognized as perhaps the world’s finest improver of type with his +16 Confirmation in Canada and +3.53 Top 5 Type Merit in the UK. This new addition to the ABS Millionaire Club is truly "A Global Legacy" as his daughters around the globe that have contributed a total of 9,239 daughters in 3,504 herds. Over +2.50 points in Type and +2.40 points in Udder Composite in the USA, ROY is siring high scoring and show winning daughters in many markets, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan and the UK. The highest classified ROY daughter is Koetsier Roy 117 EX-93, EX-91 Udder, owned by Jake & Jay Koetsier, Tulare, Calif., who acquired that score at Five Years of age. ROY’s success in the show ring is evidenced by the recent release of All-American and All-Canadian nominees, where he sired three nominated four All-American and one All-Canadian nominee. In the sale ring, he has also sired many daughters who were high selling individuals. On top of it all, this outstanding JUROR son is also a Calving Ease Specialist at 6% Calving Ease. Headquartered in DeForest, Wisconsin, ABS Global is the world-leading provider of bovine genetics, reproduction services and technologies. Marketing in more than 70 countries around the globe, ABS has been at the forefront of animal genetics and technology since its founding in 1941. ABS Global is part of Genus Breeding, a division of Genus plc.
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