If the Greeks had used a wooden alpaca instead of a horse to trick the Trojans, CCNF Sucrose could have been their model. In different circumstances, a male possessing Sucrose's qualities would be a breeding program's lead white/light Herdsire. That said, we were obviously tickled when his world-class dam produced him (fun fact: that's Sugar Drop's fleece shot that has anchored the "about alpacas" page on our web site for more than a decade now) after being bred to Snowmass Elite Legend, arguably the most influential Herdsire of the modern era in the US domestic herd. Though we have used Sucrose selectively within our own herd and have in recent years started to go to him a bit more, he had the misfortune of coming of age at a time when some other Elite Legend son, a guy named CCNF Elixir, was already mature and putting crias on the ground. Which is not to say that Sucrose doesn't have an incredibly important role here: for not only is he the maternal grandson of the mighty Snowmass Messiah but he also has the distinction of being one of the few homegrown white Herdsires we have here (and whose genetics we understand and trust) who *doesn't* have CCNF Archangel in his pedigree. We love us The Arch and all that he's done for our program and our family but a bit of genetic diversity is good too! Though we have begun folding Sucrose's genetics back into our program (even breeding him to color too) for a few years now, you can also start to find Sucrose offspring filtering onto our sales listings.

If breeders do their job right, eventually there is always a next-generation advancement that will bring something new to the table. CCNF Bataclan represents the amalgam of some of the most exciting and prepotent lines that we have ever worked with here, going back over 18 years in some cases. Bataclan's sire, 2017 Futurity Herdsire of the Year CCNF Elixir, really needs very little introduction at this point. Though Elixir has given us several excellent sons, when Bataclan first started working, he represented Elixir's first white son that had the mojo to regularly steal females off of his sire's breeding list. Consider what Elixir has meant to us over the past few years and then let the statement above sink in. Yes, Bataclan is that special. Maternally, Bataclan combines the genetics of Snowmass Sub-Zero (a Champion 6P Monarch son) and our Futurity Champion, MFI Peruvian Precocious, who is of course himself a son of the mighty Jeremiah. Just on paper alone, the pedigree is fairly drool-inducing but the specimen in person also happens to walk the walk as well. With a more compact size and build, that most closely resembles that of his Champion dam, CCNF Daliance (Snowmass Sub-Zero x CCNF Flirtatious), and a fleece that is both dense, bright, and very well organized, Bataclan is absolutely poised to be the next big thing here at his birth farm. Update - Spring of 2022: After 2+ pandemic-laden years where his offspring primarily competed only via the AOA National Fleece Show (albeit winning several banners, including the Female Judges' Choice in 2020 for his daughter, CCNF Electra) the Bataclan kids stormed into their first-ever Futurity winning the Light Get of Sire Class, 6 individual blue ribbons, 1 Reserve Championship (White Huacaya Male), 2 Championships (Light Huacaya Male & White Huacaya Female), and the Judges' Choice Female Huacaya! All of which led Bataclan to ultimately lay claim to the prestigious 2022 Light Herdsire of the Year, an honor his sire, Elixir, had previously claimed on three prior occasions.