ASA BOLT EPD

[ AMF-CAF-D2F-DDF-M1F-NHF-OHF-OSF-RDF ]

Number 3 Hair Shedding score EPD and Scrotal Circumference measure EPD, Number 5 $Grid value index, Number 6 reducing Mature Height EPD and Marbling score EPD, Number 7 Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, Number 10 Docility score EPD and percent Heifer Pregnancy EPD and Number 22 $Combined value index as of the May 22, 2026 NCE update. 

With 14 yearling sons sold for an average of $10,250 that included the $20,500 third high seller and the $17,000 fifth higher seller of the 2026 Jindra sale, Upper Cut has been a superstar since his genomic enhanced EPD data was first released in the Spring 2024 NCE report, this son of an increasingly popular outcross A.I. sire for many programs, this young sire is very unique in the fact that he offers breed leading marbling score genetics with a pedigree that does not include either the $180,000 half interest G A R Progress or his famous sire G A R Predestined who are woven throughout the pedigree tabulations of most of the most popular sources of marbling score genetics in the Angus breed.

With 244 progeny genomic tested as of late January 2026, there are 41 progeny scanned with an average %IMF ratio of 114 that validate Upper Cut’s outstanding EPD predictions for Marbling score EPD.

Paternal sisters to Upper Cut have topped Yon female sales at $55,000, $44,000 and that second high seller has become a cornerstone at Pollard Farms with $363,000 of progeny sales that include a $130,000 top selling heifer calf of their 2024 female sale and a $97,500 heifer calf in the record setting 2026 Denim & Diamonds sale.

Ultra-elite top 1% $Grid value index, Marbling score EPD and Scrotal Circumference measure EPD, elite top 2% $Combined value index and Hair Shedding score EPD, elite top 3% $Maternal weaned calf value index, elite top 5% $Beef value index, top 10% percent Heifer Pregnancy EPD, top 15% Calving Ease Maternal score EPD and Docility score EPD, top 25% foot Angle score EPD and weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD and better than breed average $cow ENergy value index, Claw set score EPD, reducing Mature Height EPD, reducing Mature Weight EPD and Residual Average Daily Gain EPD and designed to sire Prime on Purpose as of the May 22, 2026 NCE update.