PATRICK'S (NOT SO LITTLE) BROTHER

140JE 059    BRIDON PREMONITION

aAa 3-5-1-4-2-6              Semen price  $ 10.00

(Also available at Taurus Service, Mehoopany PA)

If you lived in the upper midwest, and went to any major show in the 1990s, you might see Ron Mosser with a string of "Patrick" offspring, winning enough to get your attention.

The "Patrick" bull was an earlier result of a collaboration between Norm Nabholz of Iowa and Brian Sayles of Ontario, in the "Patsy" cow family, that eventually produced BRIDON PREMONITION after the dam of "Patrick", SAMPLE PATRICE (VG88% USA, EX-Canada) moved to Ontario. 

OUTCROSS TO "SSO", LINEBRED "SLEEPER"

"Premonition" caught our eye as a yearling when his generally outstanding individuality for type was first recognized.     Our interest quickened when we realized he would also be a major outcross to the prevailing sire lines in the USA, as his pedigree contains none of the blood of Secret Signal Observer.

His sire is MASTER C TOPS, who was always under private ownership and thus had little distribution of semen.    "Tops" was a son of Master Milestone C from the "Topsy" granddaughter, Gusto Milestone Christmas Day  (EX90%), bred by Max Gordon in IN.    He went to Rock Ella at a young age, and was there until his aggressive disposition brought on his demise with little semen remaining.   "Tops" is recognized today as one of the unique Jersey phenotypes-- wide thurls, flat rumps, flat thighs, long bodies, soft udders, great fore udders and teat placement.   His highest profile son is Hollylane R Response, his highest profile daughter is C Tops Impressive (EX95%).

His dam is SAMPLE PATRICE, bred by Norm Nabholz of Iowa, owned in partnership with Brian Sayles, eventually moving to Ontario as part of the Bridon Farms Jersey herd.    "Patrice" was sired by an early son of Milestones Generator (Sample Generator, 14J 145) and from the interestingly linebred cow, Zettas Advancer Patsy (EX92%), whose sire was a son of Nancys Sleeping Advancer.    Besides her fame as the dam of Nabdon Master Patrick (sire of "Nadine" and "Buffy'), she has produced a variety of good daughters (including a full sister to "Premonition") and the cow family remains a source of substance and good udders.

PREMONITION GRACE (EX-3)

"Grace" is the best thing "Premonition" has accomplished to date.    She milks, she wins shows.  She also explains the best way to use "Premonition" is in crosses on the highly angular "Berretta" look.

"Premonition" crossed well with Duncan Chief-- we saw several class-winning heifers that were the result of this pedigree combination.   (Personally we like to cross him onto daughters of the C Tops Impressive sons/grandsons, as an effective way to linebreed to "Tops".) 

"Premonition" has a quality that makes him more ideally suited for the grazed Jersey than the confinement/TMR Jersey-- they milk better and more persistently on the high forage feeding regime than in a heavy grain feeding regime.     Perhaps this reflects the "time warp" of his pedigree, being based upon bloodlines more prominent in the 1960s-70s (before much grain was fed to Jersey cows in many environments) but it also reflects that he is a high quality "Smooth" bull by the "aAa" definitions.