Alpine Sires
The key to the Alpine Angus breeding program is the continued infusion of diverse and current genetics through AI and ET programmes backed up by quality herd sires, structurally sound with good temperament, leading EBVs and performance traits which will build on and complement the Alpine Angus female herd.
Alpine 38 Special S021
5 heavy bodied, super sound sons
S021 is another of these bulls that produces low Birth Weight cattle with exceptionally strong bodies, excellent depth and wide tops.
He is super good footed, heavy bodied and a real true to type Angus bull.
His sire Baldridge 38 Special is one of the best we have used for feet and is out of the breed great cow in Baldridge Isabel Y69.
S021 topped our 2023 Spring Sale at $120,000 and is out of a great footed Coonamble Hector female in M003, whose lineage also goes back to the sire producing cow in Te Mania Lowan R133. M003 is represented by Goalkeeper & Craftsman sons in this sale.
Most of the S021’s in this sale are out of Real Deal’s dam, CGKP354.
S021 combines low Birth with good Growth, moderate Mature Cow Weight, top 10% Scrotal, 15% IMF, top 4% Claw Set and 1% Foot Angle.
- Identifier: CGK21S021
- Birth date: 10/9/2018
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: Natural
Alpine Real Deal R163
13 quality, high Carcase potential sons
Real Deal produces upstanding, high Growth calves, with great foot quality and high Carcase credentials.
Real Deal was our high selling 2023 Autumn Sale bull at $90,000 and has already produced sons selling to $100,000.
Real Deal is a long fronted sire, standing on great feet and legs and combines a big birth to Growth spread, EMA, IMF, Scrotal, Docility, Structure Scores…the list goes on.
He is bred from one of the breeds great cow lines going back to A61 the dominant cow in the Coonamble program and the matriarch of countless stud sires.
He is the first calf of P354, a cow that has produced 10 bulls so far and is represented in this sale by sons of Testament & S021.
Grandam M242 was an embryo from Coonamble and her two full Brothers M268 and Muzza have produced a multitude of big priced and high satisfaction sons.
Real Deal has an amazing EBV set combining moderate Birth Wt with top 7% 400 Day Wt, 20% Milk, 25% Days to Calving, 10% Scrotal, 30% Docility, 10% EMA & IMF, top 25% Claw Set & Angle and 5% Angus Breeding Index.
- Identifier: CGKR163
- Birth date: 21/7/2020
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: AI
Alpine Rock Solid R289
8 deep chested, high Carcase sons
Like Real Deal, R289 is a son of the high Carcase sire Rennylea N542 out of one of our powerful cows.
R289 breeds strong bodied, sound cattle with great Growth characteristics.
He himself is a deep bodied bull, big chested with very good feet. Rock Solid is now working cows at Coonamble Angus after being at JB Angus. He was one of a group of 3 outstanding flush brothers with the other two being the ST Genetics & Heart Angus AI sire Alpine Ranaldo R232 and the Dulverton & Five Star herd sire Alpine Next Gen R272.
His dam M152 descends from the Te Mania Lowan R133 cow line that has produced a number of herd sires and sale toppers for multiple studs. M152 has been a great producer for us so far, with 6 sons averaging over $30,000 to a top of $48,000 and we are currently using her next 2 sons, CGK22T150 & CGK22T151.
Moderate Birth, top 10% 600 Day Wt, 15% Days to Calving, 22% EMA top 15% IMF, 4% Claw Set & 15% Foot Angle.
- Identifier: CGKR289
- Birth date: 22/8/2020
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: ET
Baldrige Sr Goalkeeper
25 thick bodied, strong growth, sons.
Goalkeeper is a thickset, square bodied sire and has consistently produced docile, deep bodied, high growth cattle while moderating frame.
He descends from a daughter of one of the USA’s most productive females, Baldridge Isabel Y69.
He has clicked very well with our longer bodied, clean fronted female lines and there are some very good lines of bulls from our leading donors, especially CGKP221 and Main Event daughters.
Goalkeeper has a very balanced EBV set, sitting top 2% 400 Day Wt, 13% Scrotal, 5% Docility and Eye Muscle Area, and top 10% Angus Breeding Index.
- Identifier: USA19356243
- Birth date: 7/1/2019
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: Natural
Tehama Patriarch F028
8 well fleshed sons
Patriarch is a wonderful producer of long, low Birth, sound cattle with explosive Growth and strong constitution.
When we saw him in the collection centre were taken with his body, capacity and substance for such an ultra low Birth Wt, breed leading Calving Ease Sire.
Patriarch has been a high use sire in the USA for a number of years and has sired many sale toppers and is featuring in the pedigrees of many upcoming AI sires including our next feature sire Tehama Testament.
Patriarch is a breed leading top 1% Calving Ease bull with an ultra low Birth Wt, top 5% 400 Day Wt, 15% Scrotal & Docility and Claw Set & Foot Angle in top 3rd of the breed.
- Identifier: USA18981191
- Birth date: 3/2/2017
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: Natural
Tehama Testament
11 clean fronted, well fleshed sons
Testament is a consistent producer of sound, balanced, light born cattle with good length.
We inspected him at Thiel Ranch, South Dakota working cows a few years ago and found him to be an easy fleshing, balanced bull with excellent mobility.
Both he and his sire Tehama Patriarch have a great knack of combining high Calving Ease/Low Birth Wts without sacrificing Growth and performance.
There is a pretty handy line of sons of his out of Alpine Real Deal’s dam, CGKP354.
Testament sits around top 5% of the breed for Calving Ease and combines a low Birth Wt with a 400 Day weight EBV in the top 3rd of the breed, moderate Mature Cow Weight, top 1% Scrotal and Docility, Claw Set and Foot Angles sitting around top 25%.
- Identifier: USA20019500
- Birth date: 12/8/2020
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: Natural
Connealy Craftsman
7 strong topped sons
Calves are born strong and grow well, with excellent back ends.
Craftsman topped the 2021 Spring Connealy Angus Bull Sale for an eye watering US$500,000. He is a square hipped, strong bodied bull with an excellent combination of Growth, Maternal and Structural traits and is amongst the highest Angus Breeding Index bulls in the breed.
He was the top sire for Registations in the USA for 2024 and leads for 2025 also.
His sire Sitz Resilient dominated USA sales a few years ago. His dam is by Connealy Niobrara, a bull whose daughters have caught our eye the last couple of visits to Connealys.
Craftsman is one of the highest breed Index bulls in both Australia and the USA, combining moderate Birth with top 15% 400 Day Wt, moderate Mature Cow Weight, 5% Days to Calving, 12 % Eye Muscle area and top 15% for Claw Set & Foot Angle.
- Identifier: USA20132505
- Birth date: 13/11/2020
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: Natural
Poss Winchester
5 long sided, well fleshed sons
Winchester is a massive Growth sire, with great docility, long body and strong head.
He is a high use AI sire in the USA with massive carcase credentials in the USA’s Expected Progeny Difference (EPD) system, sitting top 1% for Carcase Wt, 2% Marbling and 1% Rib Eye Area.
Winchester’s dam, Poss Blueblood 6502 is one of the elite Angus cows in the USA, producing numerous AI and herd sires, while his sisters are some of the very best females in the Poss herd and are also producing sale toppers.
There is a very even set of Winchester ET sons out of Real Deal’s grandam M242, a wonderful cow that goes back to Coonambles leading matron A61.
Winchester’s Growth EBVs are elite, sitting in the top 1% of the breed, combined with top 15% Docility, 1% Carcase Wt, 10% Eye Muscle Area, 40% Claw Set & 25% Foot Angle.
- Identifier: USA20060473
- Birth date: 25/1/2021
- Register: HBR
- Mating type: Natural