26x champ, incl. '16, '17, '18 AOA Nationals AOA Color Champion in 2016 fleece and in 2017 Halter and Fleece! He has more wins that can be counted, but check his show results below to see his consistency! We had been looking for quite a while for that one special black male to add to our herd in complement to our Dark Secret / Black Maestrom line. Fate smiled on us when we saw Stradivaruius as a juvenile to add to our program. Even in his tui tips, we knew he was the one and acted immediately. Even with our experience and confidence, we could not help be pleased with the confirmation of our opinion by his exceptional show results. A true black herdsire, Stradivarius is a 26x fleece and halter black champion with champion bloodlines in his pedigree which hails back to both Snowmass and Patagonia, through his sire Snowmass Andean Midnight and dam Patagonia's Simone (pivotal farms that were pioneers in the industry). His show wins include AOA National Show Halter Champion, AOA National Show Invited Champion Champion, and 3x AOA National Fleece Show Champion. We have been very selective with breedings to him, closed to outside breedings, to ensure the best case scenarios in most situations for black offspring. From this, 83% of the time he produced black (TB & BB) and 100% of the time, when bred to black dams. When bred to dams of other colors he produced black 43% of the time but darkened the cria 100% of the time. His spectacular offspring include AutumnSun's Aislyn, who won banners at the AOA National Fleece show both as a Juvenile in 2021 for us and as a 2yr old in 2023 for her new owners, Carol and Christian Howard of Cinco C Alpacas and Lynn Edens of Little Creek Alpacas. His son, AutumnSun's Peacekeeper, took a champion placing as a 3 year old breeding stud for his new owners in Austria, Oberstein Alpacas! Both Aislyn and Peacekeeper are making their own beautiful black crias for their new herds. Stradivarius is closed to outside breedings and us only available as service sire for sold ASA alpacas.

This girl was born in the middle of a storm, found sitting in a puddle with the shelter roof runoff pouring over her head. She had such long fleece and she was so wet that we could not tell if she was a suri or a huacaya until we figured out who her dam was! While being dried, after she had warmed up, she started kicking and fight our efforts -- a really good showing of her fighting spirit. She continues to be an assertive girl. So, her name is a reflection of her notable start and impish nature. She comes up for her greeting when we are the paddock but sometimes when she is feeling impish, she frowns and starts to bluster like to spit - but then she 'peels off' to trot away when she catches your eye (you can almost hear the faerie laughter). These girls and their personalities! When bred to Grand River Marquis, she produced a lovely, buttery soft classic medium silver grey girl that we have kept in our grey breeding program. The boys named her Umbreon for her lavender fleece. The next breeding she produced a rock solid (can a cria be 'rooted to the ground'?) black male by Dauntless that is packing on lots of impressive fiber. The look of this boy! He is developing into a sturdy modern grey male, which we named Minotaur for his impressive "tree trunk" legs evident at birth. When bred to Stradivarius she gave us a well developed true black girl we named Night Rain that has a nice crimp style, good staple and good coverage. We look forward to breeding her to one of our other black herdsires -- Maelstrom, Guinness or Secret. Sprite was then bred to our other top shelf black male, Maelstrom, and produced a lovely true black girl, Siren Call. We have high hopes for at least breeding if not showing this one. This year she has been bred for grey again with a pairing to one of our Quixotic sons, Trouble, who showed he could not just throw greys but ones with good coverage, and bright, crimpy fiber when he made our Rabble Rouser out of Totality. Fingers cross for this in a girl model from Sprite!

Stunning fleece on a power packed compact body. He demonstrated this with his Color Champion win at the 2019 AOA National Fleece Show. He has proven his ability to produce black with his blue-black boy out of our Che Bella! Sadly we cannot repeat this breeding as we lost our girl suddenly this year. But we are holding Concerto close to our vest to see if we have a contender for our herdsire row. But not one to put all our eggs in one basket, Guinness's breeding list was full this year and he is our most bred stud in the breeding plan! He is hot stuff and he knows it, with his macho attitude!