That means Medal had to demonstrate he could pass on improvement traits that are the key to productivity and profitability.
Every year CRV Ambreed's sire analysts, the company's equivalent of All Blacks selectors, visit herds throughout the country to find New Zealand's best farmers and best cows which will produce the next Richie McCaws and Daniel Carters of bulls.
A visit to Angela Fullerton and Glenn Clarke's Woodcote Stud in Te Awamutu in 2010 led to Medal being one of the 1275 bulls that year to be nominated for consideration into CRV Ambreed's premier progeny test programme.
Like the All Blacks, CRV Ambreed's breeding team uses several levels of selection.
The top 600 of the 1275 bulls go through a genomic selection process, which is a scientific tool that identifies genetic gain and limits any chance of genetic defect.
They are also assessed using the breeding team's knowledge of the cows and their families.
In the end 120 bull calves are selected for the progeny test programme and are sent to CRV Ambreed's state-of-the-art production and logistics centre where their semen production is carefully managed to be used in the coming spring.
Each of the 120 progeny test bulls' semen is distributed to contracted progeny test herds.
This allows CRV Ambreed to measure their daughters' performances in a range of environments, and measure milk production and type.
The breeding team relies heavily on the farmers it contracts to provide records and information on daughter conformation scores.
That information forms CRV Ambreed's black box of breeding - the animal evaluation system.
In the end, only 13 of the 120 bull calves selected for the progeny test programme graduate, the cream of the crop that will provide the highest genetic gain for dairy farmers.
Medal ranks highly on the New Zealand merit index.
His daughters have fantastic fertility and good type, and he is a good choice for farmers looking for shorter gestation.
He has already produced 106 daughters in 33 herds, and with the selling season under way he'll be a popular choice for domestic and overseas dairy farmers.
CRV Ambreed sire analyst Georgie Smith says Medal is about to get All Black treatment.
"Our graduate bulls get elevated on to a pedestal and what they need is what they get," she says.
Medal will live a lush lifestyle at CRV Ambreed's collection facilities and will be "wrapped in cotton wool and get extra special treatment because he's one of our star bulls."
If he turns out to be the next Firenze, one of CRV Ambreed's legacy bulls, Medal could generate millions of dollars in revenue, produce more than half a million doses of semen for domestic and international sale, have tens of thousands of daughters, and have a long list of sons enrolled on the animal evaluation database for herd improvement in New Zealand.
Throughout his life she says his breeders will continue to monitor their boy's progress.
"There is a lot of pride for the breeders in producing a bull that makes it into CRV Ambreed's catalogue.
"It's a true testament to their breeding programme and the quality of the cows in their herd,"she says.
