Congratulations to Mahesh and Susan Mallikarjun, of Natures Melodies LLC, for their purchase of Estates Matterhorn! It is with a lot of pride, that we offer you this top-notch male for your breeding program!! ESTATES MATTERHORN Multi-champion with a sweet, gentle disposition! You will fall in love with his fleece and with him! Estates Matterhorn has been a Champion since his juvenile days. There are not too many animals that go to a show as a juvenile, get a blue ribbon in a large class, and then go on to win the Championship for their color! This is what happened to this unique male. Matterhorn has magnificent fine, silky crimp, yet has enormous density. He is uniform in micron and staple length. I had to practically stand on my head to see his crimp structure still present in the middle of his belly! Matterhorn's fleece has beautifully bright, zipper crimp and is consistent on shoulder, hind end, and into his legs. You can see a beautiful lock structure in his head. In our book, Matterhorn has one more attribute that is essential with our herdsires at ACE; a sweet, gentle disposition! Matterhorn has multi-champion genetics! His sire is our dark brown herdsire Andean's Pegasus of Country Estates, a 3x Color Championship winner at IAO. His paternal grandsire is Snowmass Andean Midnight, our beautiful, compact, "silky soft" male with an outstanding pedigree for fineness. Matterhorn's dam, Patagonia's Marinella was the Brown Color Champion at Alpacapalooza in 2013, and was assessed by Judge Amanda VandenBosch as an A- with strong points in all areas of conformation; as well as areas of fiber including fineness and handle, uniformity of micron, density, brightness, lack of medullation and coverage. Fiber Stats (at 2 yrs. old): AFD: 22.5; SD: 4.7; CV: 20.8; %>30: 6.0 News Flash: Matterhorn has cria on the ground and we can't believe our eyes! They are STUNNING! Come and see his crias and you will see his potential! Champion Progeny: ESTATES SAINT CROIX - Medium Fawn Male born 12/1/2018 * Reserve Champion, 2019 Gold Country Gathering - (Class of 12)(Judge: Amanda VandenBosch) * 1st Place, 2019 Gold Country Gathering - (Class of 4)(Judge: Amanda VandenBosch) * 1st Place, ALPACA COUNTRY ESTATES RANCH - 2019 Gold Country Gathering - Huacaya BREEDER'S BEST THREE (with ESTATES PASSIONATE FEVER , ESTATES PASSIONATE VICTORIA & ESTATES SAINT CROIX )(Judge: Amanda VandenBosch) * 2nd Place, 2019 A-OK Alpaca Blast Off - (Class of 4)(Judge: Ken Hibbits)

ESTATES PURE DE LA MIRAGE Pure de la Mirage's sire is Snowmass Pure Passion. Passion's fleece is gloriously bright, showing consistency of excellence from top to bottom as his pedigree would predict and his histograms reflect. His 5th fleece measures 17.0 AFD representing his lingering fineness. Passion has received numerous Blue-ribbons for GET of SIRE. Her dam, Meredith is the daughter of Snowmass Rock Star XX, our magnificent, ultra-fine, jet true black herdsire. Pure de la Mirage's maternal side also adds the powerhouse genetics of Snowmass Rock Star XX, XXXtreme, Peruvian Legacy, Snowmass Incan Myst XX, along with SilverSmith, Peruvian King, Chaccu, Camillio-Accoyo Chimborazo, Allin Capac and Caligula. Wow! Pure de la Mirage received a BLUE Ribbon at the 2019 Carolina Alpaca Celebration Handcrafter's Spin-Off Show! For Pure de la Mirage's her next breeding, we chose multi-champion, Snowmass Mr Sizlin Rose. With two proven champion-producing parents, we will be saving a spot on next year's show string for ther 2025 cria. Offspring: On 11/21/18, Pure de la Mirage gave us a good-looking medium fawn male sired by our multi-champion Estates Matterhorn. In 2020, Pure de la Mirage gave birth to a nice-looking light fawn male cria. On 8/22/21, Pure de la Mirage presented us with a handsome light fawn male sired by Estates Purely Appraising. We are excited to announce that her son, Estates Golden Mirage won a Color Championship Banner in Walking Fleece as well as TWO BLUE Ribbons at the 2023 Houston Livestock Alpaca Show (in BOTH halter and walking fleece)!