It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Reserved on October 14, 2021. This stunning dark roan stud with brilliantly bright fleece comes from highly selective combinations of elite Peruvian color genetics. Snowmass Reserved's sire, Snowmass Royal Reserve, linage provides indisputable excellence in colored huacaya alpacas. Two memorable "uncles" are Snowmass Royal Challenger and Snowmass XXXtreme. Snowmass Royal Reserves dam line is equally notable. Snowmass Reserved's paternal grand-dam, Snowmass Canagalli Rose, was a Futurity Champion and came from Peruvian Import, 5Peruvian Cangalli. The Cangalli breeders were very well known for some of the finest colored alpacas ever imported. Snowmass Reserved never placed below a first place in halter classes. Overall throughout his carrier, he had won five first-place ribbions and three Championship banners, two of which were awarded to him at the 2009 and 2010 Futurity, the other at the 2010 Great Western Alpaca Show. His long-lasting fine, dense, bright fleece always drove him to the top of his class, which is what he passes on to his offspring. Snowmass' description of Snowmass Reserved at the 2010 Genetic Advancement Sale: Snowmass Reserved is one of those cries we were excited about from the moment he was born. He was truly one of the most impressive dark colored males born to us in 2007. His name was easy as we knew right away he was a KEEPER so "RESERVED" became his name. His sire, Snowmass Royal Reserve, is a brother to Snowmass Royal Challenger and showed and stood hand in hand in Championships with Royal Challenger at each of the shows he was in. Snowmass Royal Reserve is unique to his brother in that his dam is one of our finest Peruvian Cangalli lines produced. Cangalli is a breeders name in Peru that proved to carry some of the finest color alpacas we had ever screened for purchase and why we named the first import we purchase from this breeder Peruvian Cangalli. We bred Cangalli to Accoao Snowmaster and produced Snowmass Cangalli Rose who took Color Futurity Champion in her day, all of which makes Snowmass Reserved's sire lineage so influential. Snowmass Reserved's dam, 5Peruvian Tapara is a highly selected and screened 5Peruvian import that we also selected to purchase for her very fine color fleece. With only 29 offspring registered under AOA they have won a total of 39 Championship banners and 58 First place ribbons.

Bought this gorgeous female back in 2012 and wow, she is amazing! She produces only the best quality gray, seed stock, animals we carry at Red Granite Ranch. She is a two-time halter Color Champion and was a 2012 Estes Park Wool Market & Fleece Show Grey Reserve Champion winner! 5/6 of her offspring have been tuxedo grays, one, Jenga, being a modern rose grey! She is sired by the ever great, Mile High Deacon Grey a Futurity Gray Champion male! Histograms (Year, AFD, SD, CV, SF, >30, CF, MC) 2013 - 20.3, 4, 19.7, N/A, 2.1, N/A, N/A 2012 - 20.3, 4.2, 20.5, N/A, 2.5, N/A, N/A 2011 - 18.5, 4.2, 22.6, 18.2, 1.3, 98.7, 48.9 Fleece Lengths + Weights (Year Shorn, Weight) 2011 5.1 pounds 2016 9.0 pounds 2021 12.2 pounds !!

Co-Owned with Aaron and Connie Konrardy of Sugarland Alpacas in Iowa! Limited introductory breedings will be offered at each farm. At just shy of 9 months old PASCAL was labeled a “keeper” due to his extreme traits - that statement has certainly stayed true as he has matured! An upstanding Futurity & National Champion Herdsire with a lineage packed to the brim of outstanding genetics of COLOR! He is one of those males that you get excited about, and rightly so. It is with males like this that the long time of gestation for an alpaca is almost unbearable! Red Granites Pascal comes from two high-end breeding lines meshed into one pedigree. His three-time supreme champion sire, Red Granites Val D Lsere - who is arguably the best son of Snowmass Mr Sizlin Rose, the 2016 Futurity Herdsire of the Year winner in the Large Breeder Division. His dam, Mountain Sky’s Secret Passion a direct daughter of Wolf Den’s Dark Secret. Daughters of Dark Secret are rare to acquire due to the high interest in them and the keeping of genetic lines by their owners, we were lucky when Secret Passion was offered for sale at auction. Secret Passion has given us beautiful progeny each season, all of which have won at least one championship, two of which have won Judges' Choice awards, a true testament to her quality! For those who do not know, Dark Secret is the sire of AutumnSun’s Black Maelstrom, a 13-time Black Champion sire who is highly sought after. Pascal is the first cross of these genetics and he is everything one would hope for! The fleece characteristics are all that one could hope for from his famous ancestors. It displays his sire’s legendary brightness, is fine, has incredible density, is uniform in color and micron, and exhibits an exceptional length of staple. He has a well-defined high-frequency crimp style, which is carried down the length of his staples and is consistent throughout his blanket, extending right into the extremities. These amazing fleece qualities have stayed with him as he has aged. To add, he stands on extremely strong bones with great front and rear capacity. He has the ideal huacaya head all breeders strive for with full coverage and a short & wide muzzle. Red Granites Pascal has won a multitude of championships, which he won in halter, fleece, and walking fleece shows! He has won championships at two of the most prestigious shows in the country: The Futurity & National Show. At the 2024 RailSplitter Alpaca Show, he was awarded the Judges' Choice Male award under Wade Gease, extremely impressive for a black male as very few black males hold this honor! Judges commend him on his uniformity of micron & fineness that is carried into his extremities and extremely macho look and attitude! We are so blessed to have this male in our program and cannot wait to get him working! Hi first cria are due in late summer/early Fall of 2025, confirmed via ultrasound!!