Three Awesome Newcomers Stack the Top 10 LPI!
Christmas comes early for Gillette Windbrook (FBI x 2nd Wind with Gillette prefix on both sides) who bursts into the #3 LPI position with the release of his first official proof this round. Windbrook lands tied as breed leader for Conformation at +20 and is a maternal brother to the pair of identical sisters, Gillette Bolton 2nd Sleep (#4 GLPI) and Gillette Bolton 2nd Rain (#10 GLPI). Two additional newly proven bulls, Lirr Drew Dempsey (+18 Conformation, Goldwyn x Derry) and Charity Altagratis-ET (Shottle x Best) infiltrate the rankings for the first time in positions #7 and #9 LPI, respectively. The well-known LPI leader, Gillette Jordan (Goldwyn x Gillette-I Durham Jericho), fights off the competition and holds onto his reign at #1 LPI. Comestar Lauthority (Goldwyn x Comestar Lautelma Igniter) leaps to #2 from #8 LPI after increasing 253 LPI points due to production gains while maintaining +17 Conformation. Goldwyn himself, sire of both the #1 and #2 LPI proven bulls, only falls one position to #6 LPI while Picston Shottle-ET adds 27 proven sons and suffers a significant drop of 406 LPI points, forcing him into the #10 spot. Three well-known sires complete the new Top 10 LPI list, namely O-Bee Manfred Justice-ET (#4), Sandy-Valley Bolton-ET (#5) and Crockett-Acres Eight-ET (#8). Gillette Jerrick, formerly ranked #7 LPI and identical twin to Jordan, drops 262 points to #20 LPI. Gillette Altachester experienced the largest drop among former Top 100 LPI sires, decreasing 469 points due to changes for both production and type. On the positive side, Favreautiere Gailuron (Laudan x Comestar Gail Igniter) increases 304 LPI points this round to jump from #24 to #12 LPI. A similar increase of 295 points was realized by Valley-Drive Zesty-ET (BW Marshall x Patron) to take #45 LPI while Vision-Gen Dorion-ET (Modest x BW Marshall) achieved the largest increase this round of 430 LPI points, landing at #48 LPI.
Goldwyn Maintains His Domination as Spectacular Sire of Sons
Of the 154 newly proven bulls this month, 138 were young sire graduates including 32 sired by Goldwyn and 27 by Shottle. Goldwyn continues to dominate as an outstanding sire of sons now having 18 among the Top 100 LPI list, averaging 2046 LPI points, including Jordon (#1), Lauthority (#3) and newly proven Dempsey (#7). Gillette Brilea FBI adds eight of his first newly proven sons, which includes the rising star, Gillette Windbrook at #3 LPI and tied at #1 for Conformation with +20. After being first proven in the Netherlands, Skalsumer Jorryn (Jocko Besn x Celsius) receives his first official domestic proof and becomes the new breed leader for Protein, landing at #11 LPI, and is tied at #9 for Fat but is significantly below average for Conformation. Gillette Watch Out is the first proven son of Gillette Blitz 2nd Wedding and graduates honourably at #14 LPI and #5 Fat. Remaining young sires debuting in the Top 30 LPI include Comestar Ladner (#19, Goldwyn x Champion), Regancrest Reginald-ET (#22, Goldwyn x Durham), Kildare Lakota (#23, Goldwyn x Blitz) and Walhowdon Marshall Harry-ET (#27, Marshall x Celsius). The two highest ranking Red and White bulls are both sired by Gen-I-Beq Salto*RDC. Micheret Infrarouge*RW, who was the first proven son of Salto*RDC, holds strong at #49 LPI while newcomer Misty Springs Benjamin Red*RW (Salto*RDC x Talent*RDC) debuts at #113 LPI.