An established part of the National Holstein Show has been the Genetic Elite Sale and this year 20 Lots were offered including one Dairy Shorthorn. Studying the catalogue whilst at the show what struck me was that the entries offered more by way of outstanding type rather than production, but met a ready trade with a top price of 6,000 gns for a heifer that had been Reserve Junior Champion the day before whilst the Dairy Shorthorn sold for 3,600 gns and she had been the Breed Junior Champion.
Our Guernsey Junior Champion Eavesford Onwards Molly, whilst not offered for sale is in fact potentially third generation Excellent and that got me thinking as to
how many other pairs of Dam/daughter Excellents there have been. I have come up with with a dozen, but I am sure there must be others so please let me know about those I have missed.
| Dam | Score | Daughter | Score |
| Luckley Victoria 5 | Ex 90 | Luckley Victoria 8 | Ex 90 |
| Luckley Indigo 12 | Ex 90 | Luckley Indigo 16 | Ex 90 |
| Summerhill Dainty | Ex 94 | Summerhill Dainty 2 | Ex 90 |
| Instead Beauty 23 | Ex 93 | Instead Beauty 25 | Ex 92 |
| Maple Leaf Laurinda | Ex 94 | Trewarnevas Precious | Ex 92 |
| Eavesford Youngs Molly | Ex 90 | Eavesford Des.Molly | Ex 92 |
| Stroxworthy Gregs Duchess | Ex 90 | Shalford Fable Duchess | Ex 90 |
| Tredinney James Brenda 2 | Ex 90 | Tredinney Highness Brenda 3 | Ex 90 |
| Buckmotts Polyanthus 88 | Ex 90 | Easby Polyanna | Ex 90 |
| Easby Bracken 3 | Ex 92 | Easby Bracken 8 | Ex 90 |
| Leighgrange G Goldstream | Ex 93 | Leighgrange Red Gold | Ex 90 |
| Son | |||
| Tredinney Als After That | Ex 91 | Tredinney Heliums Astologer | Ex 90 |
The Instead Beauty’s are house cows and I wondered about including them amongst a list of working cows and Leighgrange Red Gold is in the Cross Bred register, I do not know why her Holstein sire or her milk records are not shown by CDI, given that Dairy Co have recently introduced new programmes to measure the impact of cross breeding.