We have many outstanding tuxedo grey herdsires on our farm, but this one, who arrived spring 2017, has just rocketed himself to the top of the list. This is the one who was "meant to be." I fell in love with Tabokia in early 2016, when I saw him, along with his 1/2 brother Al, on the website of Dancing Elk Alpacas while on a quest to add a son of Neversummer's US Steel -- hands-down one of the very best sons of .38 Special -- to our breeding program. Both had fiber stats that were absolutely fantastic -- the sort of sustained fineness and uniformity that is precisely what we are breeding for -- and Tab had the ultra-compact, super heavy, massive-boned build that we are breeding for as well. The only problem was that he wasn't yet for sale ... His brother was, but he was a somewhat taller animal. I knew that Tab was perfect for us, so I waited ... And kept him in the back of my mind. And then -- When Kim Quesenberry contacted me asking if I was still interested in Tab, I had a feeling there was no way I could say "No" -- but it wasn't until I reviewed his pedigree again that I truly realized why. Tab's sire, US Steel, has been producing some incredible offspring and dramatically improving the dams he is bred to. It also helps that, by and large, he has been bred to some amazing dams. When I first saw a photo of Granite Bay Royal Steel, I was amazed. He embodied everything I was looking for in an alpaca: conformation, breed type, absolutely unbelievable substance of bone -- and in clear silver grey. Of course, he wasn't for sale ... And since he went on to win Futurity in 2016, it's no wonder. Thus, when I looked at Tab's lineage and realized that he is 3/4 brother to Royal, I knew it was truly meant to be. Tab and Royal share a maternal granddam, HVLA Sterling Silver. To say that Sterling is a power producer is an understatement: Her 2nd daughter, Silver Splash, produced Royal; her 3rd daughter, Silver Spice, is a Futurity R-CH ... And her first daughter, Su Jen, is a R-CH and is Tab's mom. Tab is, indeed, the embodiment of so much of what we are breeding for. His fiber displays that awesome combination of sustained fineness (16.6 AFD on his 2nd fleece; 18.7 on his 5th), uniformity, density and staple length that we are focused on. His conformation is impeccable, his coverage phenomenal, and he has the greatest circumference of bone that I have seen on ANY alpaca ... PERIOD ... Even those much taller and larger than himself. His compact height is truly ideal. He is stout, with a terrific body capacity, and displays beautiful breed type with an excellent head. Last but never, ever least, his temperament is ideal: curious, gentle and tractable. His biopsy confirms his true excellence: he is among the most uniform alpacas that Ian Watt has tested. Period. Regardless of color. (Results under "histogram.") 2018 histo: 18.7 AFD / 3.7 SD / 19.6% CV / 99.5% CF on a fat happy boy = LASTING fine. :)

FLEECE: NICE, EVEN DENSITY HIGH FREQUENCY CRIMP THROUGHOUT THE BLANKET NICE STAPLE LENGTH & SOFT HANDLE 2013 AFD 19.9 2015 AFD 22.2 CONFORMATION: TALLER, STRONG FRAME EVEN LINES STRAIGHT FRONT & REAR LOVELY DISPOSITION, EASY TO HANDLE AND AN EXCELLENT MOTHER. WHEN BRED TO GREY SHE HAS GREY CRIA 75% OF THE TIME. 2013 Cria- Dancing Elk's Greta Sire: Silverado's Peruvian Silver Fox (LSG WH) 2014 Cria- Dancing Elk's Evereux Sire: Dancing Elk's Remmington (LRG) 2015 Cria- Dancing Elk's Fox Trot Sire: Janus' Grey Fox of Granite Bay (MSG) 2016 Cria- Dancing Elk's Karma Sire: Estates Platinum Tabokia (MSG)

We had been looking for a couple years for a male with qualities to bump up our herd. We were focusing on light fawn, when this beige guy presented himself we just had the feeling we might not get an opportunity like this again. Armani is actually the offspring of two darker fawn parents. We bought this young male before even seeing him in person and before he entered the ring and won a first place at the prestigious Futurity show. Ironically we already have an alpaca named Armani - our original Armani was from Great Lakes Ranch and is on the suri side of our herdsire line up. This guy is on the huacaya side coming from the prestigious Majestic Meadow's breeding program. We still haven't come up with a suitable nickname for him. A fun fact voice recognition spells "Our money" instead of Armani. Any how our younger, crimpy Armani has some very impressive genetics to us. Armani's sire, Jeremiah's Peruvian Jumanji, has such an impressive show history with over a dozen championships, numerous judges choice awards and impressively similar to his sire, Get of sire of the Year, multiple times! Armani's dam CCNF Arusha is a Dreadnought daughter from Cas-Cad-Nac farm who was purchased at the futurity auction. Dreadnought has an extremely impressive show record with numerous championships at prestigious shows. Arusha is an example of Elixir/Matrix Majesty crosses. Her dam was a daughter of their futurity champion Tanzania. An impressive line of futurity champions with genetics from top breeders on the other side of the coast from us. Armani was first entered in the prestigious Futurity show in Kansas City, MO and received a 1st place. Faye of Majestic Meadows says she was proud of his first in his class knowing he was very young. He received a 4th at GWAS and RMA. Then Fall show he received a 1st place in halter where Judge exclaimed "nice amplitude". He received a respectful 2nd place in walking fleece. We showed him fall 2022 he received a 3rd place in halter with all nice comments on conformation and fleece -others placing above were slightly finer. We anticipated this considering Armani comes from darker colors not to mention competition in light huacayas is astounding. He got a very respectful 2nd of 4 in walking fleece whereas the first place championed. His histogram looks like it should be a sweet spot for our herd at just under 21 micron and a 4.1 SD. His yarn is breathtaking and nearly rivals our champion suri in brightness. Last year his offspring was a beautiful fawn male. We definitely noticed a tremendous jump in fleece style and density. Did that guy ever have an amazing yeild in his first shear. This year we had a nice dark red fawn born by him. Let us know if you are interested in more information on Majestic's Armani.