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NUMBER 1 for $Combined value index and $Maternal value index, Number 3 for Hair Shedding score EPD and average percentile of six major bio-economic index values, Number 4 for $EN net cow energy value index, Calving Ease Direct score EPD, $Grid value index and Marbling score EPD, Number 5 for Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, Udder suspension score EPD, reducing Mature Weight EPD and average percentile of 20 economically important EPD predictions, Number 8 for Functional Longevity EPD and Teat shape score EPD, Number 9 for hoof Angle score EPD and Number 14 for $Beef value index.

The first calves born by Hennessey have been everything that his breeder and partners expected them to be and with the price of semen, he has seen extensive use in 2025 in IVF programs where his genetics have been highly valued with heifer pregnancies sold for $47,500 and $35,000 in the 2026 Bases Loaded, $30,000 at Basin in 2025, $30,000 in the 2026 Denim & Diamonds where 8 frozen embryos sold for an average of $2,150 and $25,000 at Pollard Farms where 21 frozen embryos sold for an average of $3,369 with a top price of $8,000 per embryo with 77 frozen embryos sold by FHCC in 2025 for an average of $1,676 with a top price of $4,300 per embryo.

With impressive ultrasound ratios of 153 for %IMF and 141 for RE, this truly “One of Kind” young sire that sold two thirds interest for $265,000 to set a new record price for the Denim & Diamonds sale that is approaching the start of its second quarter century, and he was “the talk of the town” at the 2025 Cattlemen’s Congress!

When she sold half interest to Tall Timber in Georgia as the $75,000 valued top selling bred cow of the record-setting 2024 Pollard Farms Sale, the dam of Hennessey recorded the NUMBER 1 for $Maternal value index of the sale offering and a maternal sister to her sold to SydGen in 2021 with her maternal brother ranking as a top selling selection of Maple Lane Angus from the 2022 Pollard Bull Sale.

Grandam is a full sister to V A R Legend 5019, the 2016 Vintage top selling bull who as an early ST Genetics ULTRAFertility™ sire has consistently achieved superior fertility in both conventional and sexed semen and currently has 2,291 progeny that have been genomic tested, 2,568 with AHIR weaning data, 823 progeny with ultrasound scans and 20 progeny will actual harvest data in the AAA system to rank as one the most popular of the first Angus sires in the ST Genetics system where the sire of Hennessy has become a current superstar!

Third dam was a $64,000 heifer calf selection from a past Pollard sale that went on to produce the $35,000 half interest Lisonbee and ST Genetics sire V A R Legend and more than $1,700,000 in progeny sales at Vintage that include the $110,000 half-interest flush sister to the grandam of Hennessey selected by Ingram Angus and a $100,000 selection of High Roller carrying on the tradition of the $195,000 half-interest foundation Pollard Henrietta Pride 643T who has generated more than $6,000,000 in progeny sales for Deer Valley, Express and Pollard.

Ultra-elite top 1% for $Combined value index, $Beef value index, $Maternal value index, $Grid value index, Marbling score EPD and reducing Mature Weight EPD, elite top 5% for Hair Shedding score EPD, Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, Calving Ease Direct score EPD and Udder suspension score EPD and better than breed avg for weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD, Functional Longevity EPD, Pulmonary Arterial Pressure score EPD, percent Heifer Pregnancy EPD, Scrotal Circumference measure EPD, Docility score EPD, Claw set score EPD, hoof Angle score EPD, Birth Weight EPD, $EN net cow energy value index and Teat shape score EPD.