ROCKSTAR’s Steely Dan is the handsome and confident two-year old son of two-time Futurity Herdsire of the Year, Neversummer’s U.S. Steel. Steely is very fine and inherited his sire’s trademark silky handle. In heavy competition, he placed very well taking a blue ribbon at the 2016 Futurity as a juvenile and blue ribbon as a yearling at GWAS 2017, in an extremely tough class. He additionally has won top honors in fleece at the 2016 Gold Country Gathering winning his fleece class and 2nd place in both halter and walking fleece. Judges have praised Steely for his overall level of uniformity, brightness, soft handle, and clean blanket which has an extremely low presence of guard hair. We expect Steely will retain his fineness, brightness, and signature soft silky handle well into adulthood as evidenced by his histogram results thus far. Both his sire and his dam, Bella Noche have strong grey pedigrees behind them and both have retained fineness into adulthood as evidenced by their fleece stats - Bella Noche is maintaining her fineness after 3 pregnancies with an AFD of 20.3, SD of 4.4, and CV of 21.9. Add to all of this Steely’s stellar conformational traits in which he exhibits very nice substance of bone, a compact frame, level topline, and perfect bite. We are anxious to see what this stylish young male will be able to produce. He’s taken quite an interest in the females as he comes up on his 2nd birthday. It would be no surprise if he were to have a long and successful career as a top notch breeding male. Topping it all off is Steely’s sweet disposition! He is super easy going like his sire US Steel, is easily handled, and is a true pleasure to work with. Without question, he’s a ROCKSTAR whom we will enjoy watching mature as part of our herdsire row or yours!

AMBER AUTUMN ZOUPER Z Zouper Z is the daughter of Snowmass Silver Signature, the "elite grey” from Snowmass Alpacas used as the standard of excellence in their silver-grey breeding program. Signature is a beautiful, compact, typey male whose outstanding genetics include Snowmass Royal Flush, Snowmass Andean Bronze, 4Peruvian Andean Gold 6019, Snowmass Peruvian Casanova, and Peruvian Bueno. Her award-winning dam, Patagonia's Zaida won Reserve Champion and 1st place at the 2013 Great Western Alpaca Show. She also received a 2nd Place ribbon from the 2013 AOBA National Alpaca Show. Zouper Z's maternal grandsire is 3x champion and multiple blue-ribbon winner, Patagonia's Admiral a handsome True Black stud sired by our legendary multi-champion, Patagonia's Lennox. Offspring: On 6/15/21, Zouper Z gave birth to a lovely medium silver-grey female sired by Rockstar's Steely Dan. On 7/8/22, Zouper Z presented us with a beautiful light fawn female also sired by Rockstar's Steely Dan.

ALPACA PALACE ZAGATO'S JAY-Z We are very excited to announce our co-ownership of Alpaca Palace Zagato's Jay-Z with Road Runner Rascals Alpaca Ranch. Jay-Z is gorgeous 12X Black Champion with a bloodline comprised of incredible multi-champions. He is the son of 19X Champion, Sunset Hills Zagato, the 2019 Futurity Dark Huacaya Herdsire of the Year and 2019 Futurity Dark Mixed Get of Sire!! (As well as sire of the 2019 Futurity Judges Choice Huacaya Male, Alpaca Palace Zagato's Zumba!) In addition, Jay-Z's paternal grandsire is 382 Peruvian Zephyrus, a Full Peruvian, ½ Accoyo male with 10 Color Championship wins (including the 2002 AOBA National show, 2003 MAPACA, and 2003 PAOBA shows, as well as winning "Reserve Herdsire of the Year" at the 2005 All-American Futurity!) Jay-Z's dam is CNTRL Man in Black's Beyonce, a multi-champion and blue-ribbon winner herself. She is the daughter of CCNF Man In Black. Top 10% EPDs 2022 and 2023, Plus 12 Championship Banners! Jay-Z won best head at the 2020 Buckeye which was an amazingly large class along with his 11 champion black color banners makes him a very desirable male. He was still taking Color Champion after Color Champion at the very competitive Buckeye at 4 years of age! That is amazing. According to Amanda Vanderbosh Jay-Z displays the phenotype and fleece characteristics we are all looking for and it's amazing the fineness he is retaining at 42 months of age when she awarded him Black Color Champion at the 2021 Buckeye! Jay-Z has gorgeous true black and silver-grey offspring that we can't wait to show off on our show string! Closed to outside breedings! Update! We are proud to announce that his son, 426 Hemi Velocity by Jay-Z, just won First place and Color Champion at the 2024 AOA National Show!