PATAGONIA'S ERNESTO: Patagonia’s Ernesto is a magnificent light brown compact herdsire that improves every dam to her fullest potential. Before I purchased Ernesto, I bred numerous females to this dynamic male just to see what he could do. I discovered that I could take an average dam, breed her to Ernesto, and voila, he would produce a stunning offspring. This feat was proven when we had hundreds of the females assessed with their juvenile crias. Time and time again, the cria scored better than the dam so I knew I had something special going on with this male and one way to obtain improvement in the production of our breeding program. In many ways, Patagonia’s Ernesto has surpassed his one of a kind sire, Patagonia’s Lennox, and what Lennox has been able to achieve in his life-time. Ernesto’s dam, R&RR Irishea, is a light fawn from Ruth and Rodney Elvestad’s Canadian breeding program whose goal was to have lasting fine fleece, yet have the fleece to be the ultimate in density as well. Ruth operates Olds College in Canada working with fiber. Irishea is out of one of my very favorite males, CAVA Guivar Zorro, a true black import. He has many good breeding years left and would love to have the opportunity to prove it! Ernesto’s Show Record shows for itself: JUDGE'S CHOICE, 7x CHAMPION & 5x GET OF SIRE RIBBONS Ernesto's first crias hit the show ring in 2012 and continue to perform! PATAGONIA'S EL CANTO DE CHILE - LF Male 8/5/11 (5x Champion & Numerous Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S BACCUS - TB Male 7/4/13 (3x Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S MANTECOL - MB Male 7/26/13 (3x Champion & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S ENCHANTED LIGHT - LF Female 6/22/11 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) AUTUMNSUN'S MAJOR GENERAL - DRG Male 6/6/12 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S PERFECTION - DF Female 8/20/2013 (Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ESTATES ERNESTO'S KEEP SAKE - DB Female 9/1/2013 (Color Champ & Blue Ribbon) LIBERTYS ALLEGIANCE - TB Female 8/12/2014 (2x Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons PATAGONIA'S FRANCO - MB Male 6/12/12 (Reserve Champ & Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S DELFINA - MB Female 10/13/12 (Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S REGALONA - MB Female 6/12/11 (Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S ADELA - LF Female 6/30/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S ARIELE - MF Female 7/10/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S SHONSHONE - MF Female 7/16/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S ARCTICA - WH Female 9/11/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA ESTATES AZTEC - LB Male 6/27/2015 (Blue Ribbon Winner)

PATAGONIA'S SIMONE Simone's sire, Nishio has exquisite black fleece, which is extremely dense and full of high frequency crimp. In 2007 Nishio was awarded the All-American Reserve Herdsire of the Year, in 2004 the All-American Herdsire of the Year, and in 2005 was the AOBA Get-of-Sire winner. Her dam, Patagonia's Queen won a Color Championship banner and 1st place at the 2003 AOBA National Alpaca Show and a blue ribbon at the 2003 MAPACA Jubilee show. Simone's maternal grandsire is Caballero Andante, an exceptional black male who passes his crimpy, dense fleece & strong black genetics on to his crias. 5x CHAMPION! Simone won Color Champion & 1st Place, 2008 AOBA National Alpaca Show (Fleece), Color Champion & 1st Place, 2008 MAPACA Jubilee, Color Champion & 1st Place, 2007 AOBA National Alpaca Show, Reserve Champion & 1st Place, 2007 Buckeye Alpaca Show, and Reserve Champion & 1st Place, 2007 The Futurity show. CHAMPION PRODUCER! Simone is passing down her champion genetics. In 2015, Simone presented us with ESTATES STRADIVARIUS, a Stunning 26x champion True Black male sired by our very own Snowmass Andean Midnight. Estates Stradivarius has received 18x Color championship banners, 8x Reserve Champion banners and numerous blue ribbons to date. He continues to dazzle the judges with his jet black fine, dense fleece. Offspring: In 2012, Simone gave birth to a beautiful medium fawn Reserve Champion & multiple blue-ribbon winner, sired by our Patagonia's Chief. In 2013, Simone had a pretty light brown female, sired by our Judges Choice and 7x champion, Patagonia's Ernesto. In 2015, Simone presented us with ESTATES STRADIVARIUS, a Stunning 26x champion True Black male sired by our very own Snowmass Andean Midnight. In 2016, Simone gave us a pretty true black female sired by modern dark silver grey, Morning Star’s Don Diego. In 2017, Simone gave birth to a beautiful true black female sired by our amazing Estates Satin Cloud. In 2019, Simone gave birth to a gorgeous true black daughter also out of Estates Satin Cloud. ESTATES SATIN SWEETHEART won Reserve Champion at the 2020 A-OK Alpaca Blast Off (ranch mate, Estates Barcelona Beauty was 1st & color champ) In 2020, Simone presented us with a wonderful true black female sired by Snowmass Andean Midnight. This lovely lady is a full sister to 26X Champion, Estates Stradivarius! In 2021, Simone gave us gave us a good-looking bay black male sired by our multi-champion, Estates Satin Cloud's Sebastian. ESTATES SATIN SEBASTIAN won Color Champion & 1st Place, 2023 CABA Classic; 2nd Place, 2023 AWE; 3rd Place, 2023 The Futurity (1st place was Color Champion & 2nd was Reserve Champ). Satin Sebastian is now one of our newest herdsires! In 2024, Simone presented us with a a handsome True Black male sired by Multi-champion, Amber Autumn Ringmaster.