by Darol Dickinson

Her sire Drag Iron was a beautiful brindle speckled bull with lots of hope, but his ability to consistently breed "over his head" was unknown at that time. It was the joy of my life to work at the right matings and breed her to the best bulls. She measured 40, 50, XXXX then 113" for her current owner, Diamond B, Bennie Brugman. The fact her conformation and data is so good, at DCC we planned/plan to concentrate her valuable genetics for years to come. Two sons, a grand son and several daughters and grand daughters are in the DCC breeding herd.

The www.arrowheadcattlecompany.com site is a wealth of data with every "factoid" and list one could dream of. The analytical mind of Craig Perez never ends as it is zeroed-in on every digit of horn info. Arrowhead is the gold standard of Texas Longhorn horn data. No association had the budget to accumulate this horn data, nor ever will. Arrowhead isn't 100% perfect--many great cattle were never measured, cattle died, cattle were not entered in the measuring events, and even today some people don't send their data to Arrowhead for world competition.

Keep in mind Arrowhead is about horns. There is no data on weights, special value-colors, soundness, correct conformation or fertility. Of the multi-factor value considerations of this breed, Arrowhead focuses only on the horn, but really does well calculate horn dead-on.

The Arrowhead data below is a gathering of cow's with accumulated progeny measuring over 70", 80", 90" and 100." The accumulation is very telling for those serious about identifying horn development and where these genetics come from. These are leading dams for consistent progeny looking at a lifetime accumulation. These first ever calculations show from Arrowhead data the percentage of points of horn achievement on the leading dams.

http://www.arrowheadcattlecompany.com/Classof2013