Champ a $20m stud, no bull

Collins Royal Hugo with farm technician Clayton Emms.

Champion stud bull Collins Royal Hugo has 1.5 million artificial inseminations and lifetime earnings of more than $20 million to his credit. He has just been retired at "home" in Taranaki.

Livestock Improvement's genetics general manager, Peter Gatley, said the 11-year-old purebred Holstein Friesian breeding bull was probably the world's second highest seller of artificial inseminations.

He was the most prolific artificial breeding sire ever in Australasia. "He's sold more straws of semen than any other bull in New Zealand by far."

Hugo has sired more than 200,000 milking daughters.