Congratulations and thank you to Brian Smith & Valerie Reiser, of Plum Creek Alpacas, for their purchase of Patagonia's Chief! PATAGONIA'S CHIEF Patagonia’s Chief, a true black top-sire on our ranch. Not only is he a champion, Chief is a proven Champion producer as well. He adds lots of density and staple length to his progeny, not to mention fineness, handsome typey head, and substance of bone. Chief's crias so far have had beautiful structure and uniformity, retained fineness, and consistency within their fiber. Depending upon the color of the dam, he has produced true black, bay black, silver grey, rose grey, brown & fawn offspring. Patagonia’s Chief is the son of of the legendary Patagonia's Lennox, who has countless ribbons, and is a 14x Get of Sire winner, including 3 Get-of-Sire Blue Ribbons! (Not to mention, he’s also the sire of Ernesto, our 7-time champion and Judge’s Choice ACE stud!) Chief's paternal grandsire is Danko 532, a multiple award-winning Grey champion stud from Alpacas de la Patagonia who is well-known in the alpaca world for throwing champions of all colors, especially grey and black (including many AOBA Champions). His dam, Patagonia’s Allegra won the Brown Color Championship banner for fleece at the 2008 AOBA National Show. Allegra also received 12 other ribbons, including Produce of Dam, two first place ribbons at AOBA, first place at MAPACA, and a second place ribbon at The Futurity. On top of that, Chief's maternal grandsire, Nishio was the 2004 All-American Herdsire of the Year and the 2007 Reserve All-American Herdsire of the Year! A SAMPLE OF PATAGONIA'S CHIEF'S AWARD WINNING PROGENY INCLUDE: ** PATAGONIA'S TWILIGHT - MRG Female 9/17/12 (Supreme Champion & Color Champion with Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** ESTATES CHIEF BLACK HAWK - TB Male 7/6/2019 (Color Champion, 2020 CABO) ** PATAGONIA'S DUSTY - DRG Female 9/20/12 (Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** STARSHIRE'S VICENTE - TB Male 7/20/14 (Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** ESTATES MANHATTAN - TB Male 7/11/15 (Res. Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** PATAGONIA'S ELYSA - MF Female 7/16/12 (Res. Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** PATAGONIA'S SANSON - MB Male 7/16/12 (Res. Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** ALEUTIAN EAGLE'S CARMELLA - DF Female 8/9/12 (Res. Color Champion & 2nd) ** STARSHIRE'S CONNERY - TB Male 8/21/14 (Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** SENTINEL'S ARROW - DRG Male 8/1/13 (Blue Ribbon) ** PATAGONIA'S LA ROSITA - LSG Female 6/22/13 (Blue Ribbon) ** MIRRIN OF STARSHIRE - TB Female 6/26/14 (Blue Ribbon)

Previous owner's description: Snowmass Matrix Principe is just an all around spectacular guy! He is the son of Snowmass Matrix, famous son of Snowmass Quechua. We absolutely love what Principe brings to our breeding program. He is a handsome compact male, with great balance, strong bone and fine, dense fleece everywhere! His amazing pedigree lists the top of the pyramid males generation upon generation, with Matrix, Quechua, 4Peruvian Legacy, Hemingway, and Cahuide on his paternal side. His dam also has her bragging rights coming from Felix and Bueno combination from the elite Maple Brook breeding program. You can see from the pictures he has impeccable good looks. Get into his fleece and you will want to sink your hands in there and never let go! We worked with Julie Skinner on finding a male that would take our breeding program to the next level above the great males we already have in our program. We were looking for genetic and fleece combinations they have had great success with in their breeding program. After looking at several outstanding potential males, we couldn't resist Principe. Julie stated Principe is the very finest of Matrix sons and is also very dense like his sire. Discussing a male to put over our Royal Challanger son, Snowmass Golden Victory, Julie said "The Royal Challenger lines with Matrix are our very best!" We can't wait to see this combination come together in our breeding program! Check out Principe's histograms and you will see extreme fineness in color that is maintaining very nicely. Principe has volumes of fleece in coverage and staple and density. What more do you need to know to give this guy a date with your girls? Principe's cria display significant improvement in fleece from their dams, extreme brightness and beautiful hand.