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The 1997 Fall Classic Hampshire Show and Sale created tremendous excitement. This record setting event featured a number of outstanding individuals. However, we felt Titanium stood out as the “breeding” boar. Many others had the same opinion as the gavel dropped at $30,000 after a number of breeders had contested for ownership.
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Although it is relatively easy to pack perponderous muscle on small framed animals; it is more difficult to produce breeding hogs that are truly big, extended, late maturing and chucked full of muscle.
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Titanium is certainly a big framed, elongated boar that has remarkable muscle definition and thickness from whatever angle you choose to view him.
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Ultra trim made, yet wide based with very good spring of rib; Titanium is a very stylish, well balanced boar that is very functional in his skeletal structure. He also has an excellent underline with superb teat quality and spacing.
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Titanium is bred to be big, lean and heavy muscled. His sire, Stinger, is the 3rd ranking EPD boar for BF (-0.09) and 36th for TSI (as3.50 in the November Across−Herd Sire Summary. A very popular boar that sold for $11,000 at Duncan was also sired by Stinger with a littermate selling for $20,000 off the Marcus Miller Farm. Cain’s have retained another big, impressive muscular Stinger son (3/4 brother to Titanium) that they named Heisman. Stinger has a phenomenal record in the barrows shows. He sired Champion Hampshire Weaning Gilt at the 1996 Autumn Classic; Reserve Champion Hampshire Barrow at the 1996 Illinois Purebred Swine Council Show, Reserve Grand Champion at the 1966 Georgia National Fair, Grand Champion Pair Junior and Open 1997 Georgia National Fair, Grand Champion Hampshire 1966 Illinois Preview Show, several Class Winners and Division Champions at the 1996 and 1997 Illinois and Iowa State Fair Plus numerous County Fair Champion in Indiana, Iowa and Illinois.
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We had more Hampshire breeders as well as show pig enthusiasts inquire about semen on Titanium of Duncan than any boar we have purchased. The trend in the golf club industry is to add the metal titanium to the head of golf clubs to improve your score by hitting it longer and straighter. If you want to make a “big hit” in breeding Hampshires or Show Pigs; put a shot of the big, powerful, trendy and extremely muscular Titanium in your herd now.
