Co-Owned with Terry Passanante of Clover Bottom Alpaca Ranch! I watched this guy blow through the show season in 2015 and 2016, championship after championship. A modern grey outshining a typically highly competitive grey class to win over and over again - thirteen times! He won championship classes with 40+ animals in them!! His birth farm, Faraway Farm Alpacas, described him like so: "From the day he was born, we knew this boy was exceptional with his tightly curled popcorn fleece that was gray on the inside and consistently fine, long stapled and with crimp down his legs and under his belly. It wasn’t until his first shearing that his color was fully revealed: a rich dark rose gray." Sired by the amazing Futurity Champion, Crystal Spartan the 2010 Futurity Brown Male Color Champion winner. His dam, Quarry Ridge Marimba, is a Champion herself and has produced champion offspring. Silver Lining has inherited outstanding characteristics from outstanding parents. Silver-Lining has absolutely lived up to his name and continues to wow the judges. His crias have been amazing and are top show winners. We have a handful of his crias for sale from our 2024 birthing class, take a look at them, you will not be disapointed! If you are looking for excellence in Modern Grey or just EXCELLENCE, Silver Lining might be your guy!

What to say about Gigi. Spectacular. With an incredible pedigree. Mom is PCR Tameka who I am also blessed to have in my barn. A champion is her own right and the dam of many champions. Dad is Quixotic, also a color champion. I took Gigi and two other animals to my first show and each of these guys took first in their class and two of them took color champions. It was quite a way for this little farm to begin my show adventure. Gigi had one of those championships and she went on to get her second at GWAS the following spring under Peter Kennedy She has highly organized, super fine, uniform, dense and bright fleece. A solid structure and beautiful conformation. I am so proud of this girl! Gigi is bred to Bea-2 Bomber for a May 2019 cria. Gigi had a little mini me. A stout and well conformed beautifully fleeced female we named Gidget. Gigi was bred to Silver Lining for a 2021 cria and had an amazingly dense and gorgeous girl we named Suzie Q. Sturdy as can be. She is a modern grey and will be showing up in the ring at a city near you in 2022. Gigi got her pick of the guys in 2021 and we chose Stradivarius owned by my friends Mary and Mike Livingston. Amazing boy. What an awesome match. Yet again - another inspiring cria is on its way! And they did it! A solid chunk of black boy... we named him Raven and he looks very exciting!!! Gigi will be re bred in Spring of 2023... looking for some inspiration here. Its gotta be good! This girl is a keeper.

Look out for a donated breeding at the 2025 AOA National Show! Snowmass Blue Divine (we call him Blue) is a modern rose grey - might not be SUPER obvious in this picture but yes folks - modern he is and in the knick of time. I have some pretty outstanding modern studs but we were needing another cross and this guy fits the bill perfectly... In 2015, he had an AFD of 16.6 / SD 4.1 In 2016, he had an AFD of 15.5 / SD 3.1 In 2017, he had an AFD of 14.7 / SD 3.2 So, every year, he got finer. And is he dense? Yes, he is. A 2018 biopsy by Ian Watt confirms it: With 91.8 follicles/sqmm, Blue is the densest male Ian has tested that is darker than light fawn. According to the database, he is the 4th densest, period. (Biopsy under "Histogram.") Is he likely to pass it on? Well, his full brother's histogram numbers are similar, so I think so. Blue's pedigree is a serious study in careful line-breeding, with 3x Hemingway, 2x Legacy, 3x Bueno and the great Maree Love twice, somewhat close-up. Despite this, his lineage is extremely genetically diverse. As a rare son of the great Snowmass Divine Love, who was recently exported and whose lineage has been carefully guarded, he is an outstanding outcross to most all of our herd -- and to most other elite lineages. Then, of course, he wouldn't be here if he wasn't a darned handsome guy to look at. He's got the head. He's got bone, coverage, a nice, deep body and an ultra-compact, boxy stature -- and TONS of presence. This guy is on lockdown as he hasn't performed quite yet so this year (2023) he has dates... a number of them. By 2024, we should have a good look at how he is doing. More to come. He did sire a male out of my loaded modern grey female (Inga Cloud/Cupid/Bomber/Silver Lining) and the little guy looks amazing (b. 2023; named Shogun). Blue has settled a whole line up of females for 2024. More to come here. !!!!!