SNOWMASS ROYAL KNIGHT Snowmass Royal Knight is the spitting image of his sire, Snowmass Royal Bronze, only he is a True Black! PERFECT! Like his sire he has extremely FINE fiber over his entire body. If you can imagine a vicuna, with fine black fleece covering its whole body and having a long staple length, you can envision Snowmass Royal Knight. His Dam is a COLOR CHAMPION purchased from Bruce Bar, a dedicated alpaca importer who brought some of the world's finest alpacas from South America to the US. Panam's Chilean Rose produced 2 color Champions then one TRUE BLACK gift from ROYAL BRONZE. Snowmass Royal Knight was one of the highly select black alpacas in the Snowmass Elite Black breeding program. Royal Knight's son's are now servicing colored SM Matrix offspring at Snowmass. That's referral enough for most of us! Royal Knight has proven to be extremely valuable in infusing FINENESS into our breeding program. We truly need many more Blacks like Royal Knight in the National Breeding program to ensure the alpaca world can bring black to the same quality in fiber as white. If you are breeding for extreme fineness, density, rock solid-macho conformation in color...don't let the opportunity to breed to this male pass you by. His breeding fee is extremely reasonable for his quality. 7 year fiber stats - 16.5 M; SD 3.5; CV 21.1; %> 30m=0.4!!! Nope, there's no typos! Snowmass Royal Knight is the real deal. He exemplifies the fiber of the future on an alpaca that's here and ready for your girls today!! Shearing# Date AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 1: 17.2 / 4.2 / 24.2 / 1.1 / 34.5 / 17.2 2: 18.8 / 4.2 / 22.2 / 1.7 / 30.0 / 18.0 3: 18.5 / 4.3 / 23.0 / 2.1 / 34.7 / 18.4 SOME OF HIS PROGENY INCLUDE: SNOWMASS BLACK PEARL XXX - TB Female 9/4/09 (Ribbon Winner) SNOWMASS DELTA DAWN - MB Female 7/3/10 (Reserve Color Champion & Blue Ribbon Winner) ESTATES ROYAL RHONE RIVER - TB Male 12/23/11 ESTATES ROYAL RHUMBA - TB Female 2/8/12 ESTATES TEXAS SUNBURST - TB Male 2/12/14 (Ribbon WInner) ESTATES KNIGHTLEY KIERA - TB Female 5/8/14 (Blue Ribbon WInner) FUN IN THE COUNTRY'S ROBINHOOD - 11/19/14 (Multiple Blue Ribbon Winner) Royal Knight is co-owned with Kim Les and Nancy Billington of Fun in The Country Alpacas and was previously in the Michigan location. Royal Knight is now standing at Alpaca Country Estates in Oregon.

Eva’s sire is Alta Luna’s Man from Uncle, a full Peruvian, and dam is Alta Luna’s Granita whose background is mostly Chilean with some true black and grey in her heritage. Eva has the most incredible amount of milk for her crias, and she has been known to foster other crias; in fact, she has even nursed two crias at the same time for more than six months. She is an asset to any farm for those unforeseen times you need additional milk. Her offspring, including our own Emily, are good natured and easy to handle. She is an easy keeper, breeds easily, and is a joy to have on the farm. Eva's 2012 cria, Estates Liesel XX, took a blue ribbon at TxOLAN in 2014 as a yearling in a class of five, and then went on to be the Color Champion at the show in the Brown Female Championship with lots of competition entries. Liesel's fleece is pictured on the right. On June 13, 2014 Eva had a lovely girl cria, Ygraine, from Snowmass Royal Knight. Snowmass Royal Knight’s 7 yr fiber stats are: 16.5 M; SD 3.5; CV 21.1 & %> 30m=0.4!!! Nope, there are no typos! Snowmass Royal Knight is the real deal. He exemplifies the fiber of the future. Sired by Snowmass Royal Bronze & held tightly in the esteemed breeding program of Snowmass Alpacas, Royal Knight’s son’s are now servicing colored Snowmass Matrix offspring at Snowmass. That’s referral enough for most of us! If you are breeding for extreme fineness, density, rock-solid macho conformation in color, Eva's cria Ygraine is your opportunity to obtain the Snowmass Royal Knight lineage. Eva is now confirmed bred to our incredible harlequin appy stud, Billbong, who has a very high rate of throwing appy cria! We are very excited about this breeding!

Half-Interest Now Available! As we refine our herdsire list, we’ve made the hard decision to let our share of ownership go in 7X Champion, six year old grey stud, Ambrose of Milan. We now have his genetics infused solidly in our herd going forward through his multiple daughters and a future stud replacement. It’s now time to let him keep working his magic for someone else’s herd. With his daughters now being old enough to breed, we’re excited to see what his next generation will produce! Ambrose is a solidly built male with a boxy frame and stout build. He is dense, dense, dense and has sired some excellent offspring for us across a wide variety of dams, providing us rose and silver greys, beautiful fawns, and some excellent browns. With 12 of his daughters now folded back into our program, we’re ready to let him do the same for you while we work on the daughters and the next generation. Ambrose has done a fabulous job of building our foundation herd and his legacy will continue long and strong at Epic Alpacas. Ambrose is the complete package - a fantastic rose grey stud who has 7 Championships under his belt from highly competitive shows, beating a Futurity Champ and many other multiple banner winners! He retired from his show run and settled into his breeding career, with his first cria hitting the ground in Fall of 2015. Ambrose is 5th generation grey out of two grey parents and is packed with grey genetics. His sire, ATV Adonnis was a legend in his own time, taking 14 banners until his untimely death in March 2015. He leaves behind a spectacular legacy of cria that have gone on to be color champions and blue ribbon winners in their own right. Adonnis passed along everything he had when he sired this boy - fineness, crimp, density, phenotype, coverage, and more. Ambrose's fleece continues to be so fine and buttery soft even a couple of years into his breeding career. Have a look at this male and get your hands on him - you'll never want to let go! Ambrose is proudly co-owned with Eye of the Needle Ranch in Golden, CO.