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Licorice’s Dundee Son Named Showcase Selections Sire at Select

PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Mar. 4, 2008 — 7HO99497 Savage-Leigh LINGLE-ET, bred by Christopher Savage, Knoxville, Md., has been identified as a Super Sampler??at Select Sires??Because of his elite, show-winning pedigree, LINGLE has also been chosen as a Showcase Selections™ sire. With these designations, LINGLE semen is now available to all Holstein breeders.

A Regancrest Dundee-ET son, LINGLE hails from one of 7HO5175 Regancrest Elton DURHAM-ET*CV’s most famous daughters, Savage-Leigh Licorice-ET (EX-92-EX-MS-DOM). A tanbark favorite, Licorice was High Honorable Mention All-American Aged Cow in 2006 and has two 2007 All-American-nominated milking daughters, and she is just as effective in the parlor. She has led Maryland in milk production with a 4-01 record of 365D 51,220M 4.3% 2,179F 3.1% 1,596P. Needless to say, LINGLE’s pedigree is filled with incredible type and extreme production.

“LINGLE is destined to sire the kind of show-winning offspring that has made his family famous,” said Rick VerBeek, dairy sire analyst for Select Sires. “LINGLE is bred to sire the fancy ones with enough production behind him to also make them profitable.”

Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc., is North America’s largest A.I. organization and is comprised of 10 farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America’s best genetics at a reasonable price.

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