Sired by Te Mania Ambassador A134 and out of a Lawsons Henry VIII Y5 cow, Regent has EBVs of +106 (top 5%) for 600 day weight, +8 for Eye Muscle Area, +3.7 for Intramuscular Fat and +150 for the Longfed CAAB index.

Te Mania Angus Australia director Tom Gubbins, whose family bred Te Mania Ambassador, says these figures place Regent in the top one per cent of the breed for those traits.

Tom says Te Mania Angus identified the outstanding young bull and won a hard-fought duel against a syndicate of Queensland, NSW and Tasmanian breeders at the Tuwharetoa Angus stud dispersal at Tarcutta, NSW, on Tuesday, April 20, 2010.

According to Elders auctioneer Michael Glasser, the sale equalled the Australian sale record price paid for an Angus bull.

Regent is also in the top five pc of the breed for the heavy grassfed, shortfed domestic and terminal indices.

Tom says Regent is a "standout bull for his length of body, smooth shoulders, structural correctness and beautiful sleek coat and skin".

He says the bull's prepotency for marbling is concentrated on three sides of his pedigree and, importantly in today's seedstock market, Regent has tested free of known genetic disorders.

"This makes him stand alone as a potentially defining sire of the next generation of Australian Angus genetics," Tom says.

"But it is important people understand you do not select a sire for just one or two traits, you select a bull who sets an industry benchmark across the spectrum - from EBVs to structure," he says.

"The holy grail of the cattle business might be +4 in marbling, but if that was the only goal it could have been achieved long ago.

"Which is what is so appealing about Regent - he is the complete package, backing up his stunning figures with the attributes which we believe will make his progeny right at home in paddocks across the country.

"For example, his higher-than-desirable birthweight (+6.8) is adequately offset by his smooth shoulder and reach of neck, and -2.6 for gestation length.

"And everyone who has seen his dam agrees she is a standout herself, as a beautiful and highly-productive female.

"To top it off Regent's mature cow weight is less than his 600-day growth figure, which means he won't be producing cows which will increase a breeder's cost of production."

Tom says Regent will go straight to Total Genetics at Terang for semen collection for Te Mania New Zealand, then to Te Mania Angus' Mortlake headquarters.  He will go to Dunoon in NSW for the Autumn joining 2011.   He  will be used through both ET and AI as well as being extensively progeny tested through the Team Te Mania network of 37 herds across three states.

He says although Regent is still a young bull, his breeding and his early figures indicate he has unparalleled long-term potential and his new owners, the Te Mania Angus partnership and Holbrook-based Dunoon, expect him to quickly have a major impact in their genetic profiles.

"We are excited to be able to add Regent to the mix and I believe we have made a major statement with the lengths we went to as a syndicate to obtain this very sirey fellow," Tom adds.

"It is our hope he may go on to hold a place in the breed as influential as that of Te Mania Kelp, which was such a success for us and which we eventually sold privately for $50,000 to Hazeldean Angus, or more recently Te Mania Unlimited, which went to a NZ syndicate for $60,000," he says.