Currently breeding in WA state... Legato Grigio is the assimilation of the 2 most important lines that we wanted to bring to our grey breeding program. He comes by his elite fleece not unexpectedly. Dad is RR Gun's A'Blazin' who has now shown by both histograms, and follicle skin testing that he is consistantly producing fineness, density and uniformity and was a 15 time banner winner. Mom, Snowmass Golden Dreams, has been one of our best producers. We have amassed countless banners from her offspring, among whom is our pre=potent herdsire Snowmass Midnight Sun. LG has demonstrated his pepotency repeatedly in his production. AS we had hoped, he is able to transmit solid grey as a dominant, in many shades. His progeny, as tested by histograms and biopsies (to date) attest to his prepotency...take a minute to check the stats on his offspring. There is but one to date that is not still in our herd...we have retained them all. His non grey production has championed in solid colors, fawn and black in particular. His pattern appears to be a spotting, not tuxedo , pattern and we have used him on solid colors with excellent success. We have not bred him to tuxedo patterns. He has not produced any blue eyed whites. The numbers don"t lie: Histograms: 2012 16.0/ 3.9/ 23/ CF 100%/ length 90mm 2013 18.3/ 4.1/ 23/ CF99%/ length 105mm 2014 17.3/ 3.85/ 22.24/ CF 100 length 90.0 2015: 19.3/ 4.3/ 22.3/ CF 97.3 length 90mm Biopsy (Alpaca Consulting/ Ian Watt): Density 64.6/mm2 S/P ratio 11.8:1 In-skin mean primary fiber diameter: 25.9 SD 2.8 In-skin mean secondary fibre diameter: 20.6 SD 2.8 Comments: Excellent density well supported by an above average S:P ratio and very uniform fiber populations, among the best recorded for this color to date. There is simply no way that we would be offering Legato Grigio, if we didn't have sons Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie now standing on our stud row...

Carmen is a stunning rich brown, compact, beautifully proportioned GnR daughter who boasts very uniform, bright, well defined, lengthy fiber. The judges sure liked her and they sure love her daughters too who have taken championships in the ring. She has been one of the Guns n Roses daughters that we have come to cherish in our program as a foundation female with outstanding production and excellent color genetics including production of a black herdsire. Skin biopsy through Ian Watt: Density: 50.3/mm2 S/P: 10.3:1 In-skin primary fiber diameter: 19.7 micron, SD 2.7 In-skin secondary fiber diameter: 14.1 micron, SD 2.2 Comments: "Very good density well supported by an excellent fiber population differential with excellent SDs and a very good S:P ratio make this a breeding female of significant potential." We were thrilled with the 2014 offering of RR Billie Holiday out of Legato Grigio which we repeated for 2015 and look at the bottom picture to see what we got!!! needless to say, we are going for a three-fer... Carmen is being sold with her STUNNING female cria RR Hera if sold before weaning! An amazing opportunity!!!

Sherlock Holmes is no mystery. He has stepped up to herdsire row already as one of the best roans we've produced. It's no surprise given his pedigree. Both his parents carry black, so he has as good a chance of producing bay roan (modern rose grey) as he is of producing the very desired blue roan (modern silver grey). Had it not been for Covid, this is one male that we would have loved to show. Our plan for the next generation in the roan program has been to select the best roans to replace Arturo (Modigliani) and Touchstone (Sherlock Holmes). We wanted the sons to be as remarkable as their pre-potent sires...mission accomplished. NOW BREEDING!