Cinders was just the male we had been looking for the quite a few years, to breed to our Shavano and Rastamon daughters. We purchased this beautiful male from Beth Roy of Suri Peak. Cinders had his first offspring on the ground in the spring of 2012 and his kids showed at the 2013 GWAS in Denver coming out of the ring with blue ribbons and much acclaim. Of the four entered all four won blue ribbons with Mystique going on the win the Reserve Color Championship. With a biopsy density of 67.5 at four years old, this guy has some impressive fiber stats. His first Great Lakes Ranch offspring certainly did not disappoint in 2015 nor in 2016. Cinders is the 2016 AAA Futurity Dark Herd Sire of the Year! Needless to say Cinders is a welcome addition to our herd sire line up. Cinders is closed to outside breedings.

GLR Ali is a full sister to GLR Arappaho, now owned by Pines Edge Suri Alpacas and the 2009 MAPACA and AOBA Black Male Color Champion. She is a beautiful true black Shavano daughter from one of our favorite dams, GLR Allelujah, one of the only Synergy daughters we have ever kept. Her first dance in the show ring was at the 2010 AAA Futurity where she awarded Black Female Reserve Champion as a juvenile. She took first place and Black Female Color Champion at GWAS in Denver, the largest alpaca show in the nation and went on to earn the 2010 Reserve Black Female Color Champion at the AOBA Nationals in Ft. Wayne Indiana. She won Black Female Color Champion, and 2nd in Bred and Owned Female at the 2011 Mapaca Jubilee and she was Black Female Reserve Color Champion at the 2011 AAA Futurity and Black Reserve Color Champion at the 2011 GWAS show. She also won the Black Female Color Championship at the 2011 Suri Network Fleece Show. She is a beautiful girl with great bone, excellent conformation, a lustrous greasy fleece, that desirable wedge shaped head and a sweet, mellow disposition to boot. Ali's 2014 cria is a gorgeous true black daughter GLR Ongeleigh, sired by CInders, who Karl and Jan Heinrich, of Long Hollow Suri Alpacas purchased this fall. Ongeleigh is every bit as beautiful as her mother with incredible fleece, excellent luster, coverage and fineness, a great suri head , straight conformation and that sweet personality she inherited from her mom. We are honored by Karl and Jan's support of our breeding program with their purchase as they both are experts in evaluating and understanding suri fleece. We wish them luck in the show ring and can't wait to see Ongeleigh's cria when she retires to become a mom. Ali's 2015 female cria is yet another true black girl, GLR Alleycat who is just as promising as Ongelleigh and sired once again by Cinders who did well on the show circuit in 2016 in the top of the black juvenile classes and the 2016 Reserve Black Female at the 2016 Mapaca Jubilee. Alleycat ought to be a serious contender as a yearling in the show ring. Ali gave birth to yet another jet black male cria, this time a male and he is every bit as nice as his full sisters, very likely to earn a solid spot on our 2017 show team given what how he is looking even at only a few months old. Ali is bred back again to CInders, the 2016 Dark Herd Sire of the Year and expecting in the spring of 2017. Awards Received 2010 AAA Futurity-1st and Reserve Black Female Color Champion 2010 GWAS- 1st and Black Female Color Champion 2010 AOBA Nationals- Reserve Black Female Color Champion 2011 Mapaca- 1st and Black Female Color Champion 2011 Mapaca- 2nd Bred and Owned Female 2011 Suri Symposium Fleece Show- Black Female Color Champion 2011 AAA Futurity- Reserve Black Female Color Champion 2011 GWAS- Reserve Black Female Color Champion