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...

When you have a winning combination, it's hard not to stick with it. Snowmass Gold Starz is one of our very best females and mom to our outstanding herdsire Snowmass RRoyal Stars, who must be seen to be believed. We bred her to our own Guns n Roses for 2008 and manufactured RR Rose Fiona, one of our champion "starlets". Could we possibly improve on this outcome? We just might have...La Reina will attend the coronation ball. We are getting used to seeing some outstanding cria fleeces in the two years that GnR has been breeding, but this little princess has us slack jawed. We know where she'll be this spring! For Snowmass Gold Starz: 2003: 19.3 4.1 21.4 2.2% 2005: 19.4 4.2 21.5 2.8% curv 50.7 2006:21.9 5.1 23.1 6.0% curv 44.8 2007:23.5 4.7 20.0 91% curv 40 2008:24.4 4.9 20.1 88.3 2009 (age 7): 23.9/5.1/21.5/ CF 88.4%/ curv 45 Watt Biopsy: Density 46.3, S/P 11.8/1 For Aussie Guns n Roses: 2006: 18.4/3.5/19.2/CF 99.5%/37.3 curve 2007: 20.1/4.4/22.0/CF97.7/42.0 curv. 2008: 21.8/4.3/19.7/2.3% (YM) 2009: 23.0/4.5/19.4/CF 93.6%/ 39 curve Watt Biopsy: Density 55.9, S/P 10.2/1 Still the densest grey in the world as tested by Jim Watt as of 12/19/09 Follicle testing for La Reina Density: 64.6/ mm3 Secondary: Primary fiber ratio: 12.3:1 In-skin primary fiber diameter: 20.2 micron (SD 2.9) In-skin seconadary " " : 14.0 " (SD 2.1) Commments: "The very good S:P ratio along with the elite density and good fiber population differential of just over 6 microns, are, without doubt, the genetic-indicator that elite gene suppliers are looking for-this is an exceptional animal"...Ian Watts 2014 Micron Count: 18.86/ 3.82/ 20.26/ 98.99 2013 Micron Count: 19.3/ 3.7/ 19.0/ 98.9% 2012 Micron Count: 19.9/ 3.6/ 18.4/ CF 98.7% 2011 Micron Count: 17.2/ 3.3/ 19.2/ CF 100% 2010 Micron Count: 16.2/ 3.4/ 20.9/ CF 100%

Touchstone is a legend. After a brilliant show career he established himself as one of the most pre potent studs in our 16 years of breeding. His last show was at age 4 where he Championed with a commendation as having the finest fleece in the color class juveniles included! His crias have consistently inherited the uniformity, brightness, definition and outstanding length Touchstone maintains. They too, with limited show exposure, have taken Championships. His mark on our herd improvement has been indelible. He has raised the bar...