A sire that leads the US list has certainly earned the right to be thoroughly appreciated. However, for the first daughter-proven sire to exceed 3000 TPI, who also has 7 sons in the genomic top-25, new benchmarks need to be defined. No, the new US superstar Charl is not really comparable to most of the top bulls of recent years, or with the outstanding sires that he shares a barn with like Delta, Rubicon, Chief and Delta-Lambda. The Charley son of STgenetics is playing in a league of his own and yet is still as though custom made for the wide variety of expectations that a Holstein sire should be judged.