Brianna ....... half-accoyo Champion granddaughter of Yupanqui and Felix! 
Brianna is a rare light silver grey half-accoyo daughter of Aussie Rockford, the grey herdsire who placed first at the 2001 AOBA Nationals in both adult male halter and the fleece show - quite an accomplishment! Rockford's fiber is dense, crimpy and fine, with a micron count of 21.1/5.0/23.7/4.4 in his third year. Brianna's dam is a solid black half-accoyo sired by Ppperuvian Yupanqui, and her grandsire on her father's side is the renowned Pperuvian Felix. Brianna is very straight, with a magnificently pretty and typey head. She has extremely dense fleece, which is fine, with a very defined, tight crimp. Brianna is an exceptional female with breathtaking fiber, bred with the silver grey Champion Ben MacDhui in Spring 2008. 

Awards:  Brianna's yearling fleece won a blue ribbon in her class and Champion of all the multi/grey huacaya fleeces at MaPaca 2004, described as "the largest alpaca event on the planet, ever"! Her fleece also placed second in the juvenile class. Brianna's 2005 fleece was awarded a red ribbon by Kristin Buhrmann at MaPaca 2005, with over 200 fleeces in the show.

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 Misty ....... Champion grey Michelangelo daughter!
A granddaughter of the top west coast grey herdsire Fantasy's Gremlin and the renowned Pperuvian Guellermo, Misty is a stunning silver grey girl, stocky and solid, with excellent conformation and proud presence. Her fiber is fine (23.0 AFD at age 11 months) and bright, with fabulous staple length and a tight little crimp. She is heavily fibered down to her toes and has a wooly, typey head. Her dam, Fabia, is a beautiful and correct silver Chilean and her half-Peruvian black sire, Michelangelo, is a blue ribbon winner whose dam is a fine-fibered silver. At the 2000 Alpacapalooza the international judge said of Michelangelo, "From the minute he entered the ring, there was no other presence such as his", and he is producing show-stopping offspring, including the 2002 AOBA Champion, "Onyx De Mico". Misty was bred with the silver grey Champion Ben MacDhui in Spring 2008. 

Awards: At 2 years of age, in her only showring appearance, the majestic Misty placed first in her age group, and went on to become Reserve Champion of all the mixed multicolor and grey female huacayas at the 2004 VA Classic Show. Nard Mullen awarded Misty a third place for her fleece in 2002 at the highly competitive EVAA show, only 2 points behind the first place winner.

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 Ishbel ....... multiple blue ribbon-winning dark silver grey Peruvian Luciano daughter!
Luciano's Ishbel arrived the week before Hurricane Isabel, hence her name, which is the Scottish form of Isabel. This half-Peruvian bombshell is a Danko & Platinum granddaughter, who has inherited four generations of world class grey and black ancestry from her dam, Hisami, a gorgeous black Danko daughter with extremely fine (20.3 AFD), soft-handled fleece, and great coverage. Ishbel's sire is El R Peruvian Luciano, a full Peruvian medium rose grey son of the renowned Peruvian Platinum (deceased). Luciano is a multiple blue ribbon-winner, with an adult micron count of 19.3 and 2.3% of fibers over 30 at his 3rd shearing. His density and handle are excellent, he has a full topknot on a true to type huacaya head and a calm temperament with great presence. Shown as bay black for two years, Ish has now turned dark silver grey, and with her fine, dense, long-stapled fiber, heavy bone, compact, typey conformation and perfect bite, Ish is one girl we expect to keep! Ishbel was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV Nikos in Spring 2008.

Awards: Ish placed 5th in bay black full fleece halter at MaPaca 2004 and second at the VA State Fair. Neither of these results does her justice! At the 2005 Virginia Classic, Ish placed sixth in a bay black halter class, but the judge, Jane Tellier, explained that she should have been in a roan or grey class. Ishbel's fiber placed first in the Handcrafter's SpinOff! At MaPaca 2005, Ishbel was again classified as a bay black and lost points for white fibers in the blanket, so Mike Safley placed her 4th in the full fleece yearling bay black halter class. Ish's yearling fiber won another blue ribbon in a class of 8 at the 2005 Mid-America Handcrafters' SpinOff, with a score of 94.5 / 100! Comments included, "7 crimps per inch - WOW!", 10/10 for fineness "very soft & fine", 5/5 for hand "wonderful to spin". At the 2005 OABA fleece show, Ishbel placed second in the grey class of the Handcrafters' SpinOff, with a score of 92/100. She was beaten only by our grey male, Nikos, who won the grey SpinOff Championship at this Level 4 fleece show, with 212 entries in the SpinOff competition! Ish won another blue ribbon in the 2006 Southern Select SpinOff competition, and a second place in the 2006 Alpaca Western Extravaganza SpinOff, with a score of 92/100, placing higher than a number of Champion greys! In 2007, Ish's fleece won a second place in the MAPACA fleece show, judged by Wade Gease.

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 Thistledown's Kerensa Compadre ....... black Compadre daughter!
With four black grandparents and a very strong heritage of top quality color, Kerensa is a beautiful black girl with excellent conformation and fiber character - her blanket is just a mass of tight, shiny curls! Her dam, Demelza is our MaPaca ribbon-winning 3/4 Peruvian "black in brown clothing", who exhibits excellent conformation and stature, dense fleece with outstanding crimp, plus coverage from tip to toe. Kerensa is a Cornish name, meaning love and affection, and she is, if anything, even sweeter than her dam in temperament, so the name suits her very well! Kerensa is sired by Patagonia's Compadre, a "double black" son of Caballero Andante from Alpacas de la Patagonia. At 2 years of age, Compadre had a fiber analysis of 20.6 AFD, 3.4 SD, 16.5 CV and 1.2% > 30 microns, with an 8lb shearing weight - these are phenomenal numbers for a true black out of two blacks. Kerensa was bred with our award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra, in Fall 2007.

Awards: In her first showring appearance at 8 months of age, Kerensa placed 5th in a halter class of 12 juvenile black females at the 2006 Virginia Classic. Judge, Shannon McConnell, commented that she had not yet developed the fullness of body of the other females in the class. In a juvenile black halter class of 15 at MaPaca 2006, Kerensa won a 6th place ribbon, with the judge commenting that the girls placing 4th-6th had very similar fleece and conformation, and that head-type was the deciding factor. At the 2006 VAOBA Alpaca Expo, a Level III AOBA-Certified Show, Kerensa's fiber won a blue ribbon in the SpinOff where the judge, Cathy Songer, commented that she had, "beautiful fiber" and awarded her 93 points out of 100. Kerensa also won a blue ribbon out of 11 juvenile black entries at National level in the 2006 Fiber to Fashion SpinOff, placed first out of 9 with a score of 94/100 in the big OABA 2006 SpinOff, and won another blue ribbon out of 6 entries in the 2007 Virginia Classic SpinOff competition. 

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 Lakisha ....... 3/4 Peruvian true black daughter of brown AOBA & MAPACA Champion!
If you have ever seen CPeruvian LB Remington, as we did at MaPaca in 2001, you would understand our excitement about having his true black 3/4 Peruvian daughter, Lakisha, in our foundation herd! Remington is one of those males that stops you dead in your tracks and makes you spin around on your heel for a second look. He has phenomenal macho presence, conformation, serious coverage, density and crimp, and a wonderful mellow temperament. Lakisha's dam is a true black granddaughter of Peruvian Chocolateer and The Silversmith, with very good conformation and coverage, plus great handle and staple length. Lakisha has wonderful solid, square, typey conformation, with excellent density and handle to her fiber and a perfect bite. In November 2007 she produced her first cria, Boadicca, a stunning true black female, and Lakisha has proven herself to be a wonderful mother and milker. Lakisha was bred with our award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra, in Fall 2007.

Awards: In her first showring appearance at 9 months of age, Lakisha placed 4th in a halter class of 12 juvenile black females at the 2006 Virginia Classic. Lakisha's juvenile blanket had a 4lb annualised shearing weight, and was awarded a second place by Jill McCloud in the 2006 PAOBA fleece show. Cathy Songer awarded her fiber second place in the SpinOff at the 2006 VAOBA Alpaca Expo, with a score of 90/100, commenting that she had "excellent color integrity (no bleaching)", and Lakisha placed fourth in a full fleece halter class of eleven at this Level III show. Her fiber also placed first in a class of 7 at the 2006 Mid-America SpinOff, second in a class of 8 in the 2007 MOPACA SpinOff competition, with a score of 90/100, and her 22 month shearing won a second place in the 2007 PAOBA show.

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 Lady ....... true black daughter of the black 2004 Futurity Reserve Champion!
Lady is the third black daughter from her extraordinary mother, Spanish Peaks Madison Avenue and the first offspring of Nova's Black Knight III, the 2004 Futurity Reserve Champion and son of the legendary true black Snowmass Nova. Black Knight placed above 4 other Snowmass Nova sons at the 2004 Futurity, all of whom had placed at the top of their classes. He has superfine, dense, uniform, bundled black fiber - his first two shearings both had an AFD of less than 20 microns. Lady has her father's elegant, calm presence and excellent conformation. Her fleece is lustrous, velvety soft, and full of uniform crimp. 

This little girl is a powerhouse of top genetics for fleece quality and for black color. Her father's lineage includes Bueno, Drambuie, Snowmass Peruvian Casanova (rose grey), Black Knight PC G222 and Zorro PC G188 (the latter being two of the finest black alpacas ever to be imported into the US). On her mother's side are Felix and Outback Gold. Her mother has gorgeous fleece with a CV of 13.2 and SD of 3.6 at 2 years of age, giving it a satiny sheen and silk-like handle. Lady was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV Nikos for a Fall 2008 cria.

Awards:
Kevin O'Leary placed Lady fifth in a class of 14 juvenile black females at PAOBA in 2007. Lady's juvenile fiber won first out of 9 entries in the 2007 VAOBA SpinOff, a second in the huge OABA 2007 SpinOff and another first in the 2007 LA Deep South Show SpinOff competition. Lady went on to win second place in both the fleece and Spinoff competitions at MAPACA 2008, the largest alpaca show in the US. In the fleece show she lost by only one point to a black son of Peruvian Powerplay, the multiple Champion fawn son of Ppperuvian Timoteo! 
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 Thistledown's Iona Jaxon ....... superfine black daughter of Champion black sire!
Iona is a sleek and shiny, half-Peruvian, jet black Jaxon / Danko granddaughter. CPeruvian Jaxon is a nationally renowned black Peruvian herdsire and Danko is possibly the top grey herdsire in the country. Her dam is Hisami, an extremely fine true black Danko daughter (20.3 AFD @ 11 months), with beautiful soft-handled fleece, a lovely typey head, very nice conformation and a friendly, curious nature. Iona's maternal grandmother is a "blue black" Macintosh daughter, with two generations of black in her background and an AFD of 24.4 at 4 years of age. Iona's sire is the 4X Champion true black Peruvian CPeruvian Axtion Jaxon, who has a remarkable show record and superfine, crimpy fleece. In his first year AJ's fiber analysis was AFD 18.4, SD 3.7, CV 20.0, >30 1.4%, which is phenomenal for a true black, and he has won numerous first place and Championship ribbons in major halter and fleece competitions, including first place black fleece at the 2003 AOBA National Fleece Show. Iona was bred with our award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra, in Fall 2007.

Awards: Iona won a blue ribbon at her first show, in a juvenile shorn class at the Virginia State Fair in September 2005, and second place in a yearling shorn class at MaPaca in 2006.

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 Thistledown's Boadicca Nikos.......true black daughter of 3X Champion half-accoyo grey sire!
This jet black daughter of our 3X Champion dark silver grey male Nikos, and a multiple award-winning true black dam, is named after Boadicca, the Celtic warrior Queen who defeated the Romans in Britain, and whose name means victory. Boadicca is exactly what we are breeding for in black - solid, non-fading and true. She is so black it is difficult to make out any features on her at all! Her fiber is dense and curly with handle like velvet. Her dam is Lakisha, daughter of the 5X Champion brown male, CPeruvian LB Remington. Lakisha has beautiful, square, heavy-boned conformation and excellent fiber density - her show-skirted, juvenile blanket weighed over 4lbs. Boadicca's sire is our half-Accoyo grey male, Nikos, whose 30 month shearing was awarded 20/20 points for fineness and hand by Diana Timmerman when he won Reserve Champion grey fleece at MAPACA 2006. A grandson of Accoyo Felix and Accoyo Yupanqui, Nikos also won the halter Championship out of 33 grey males at the 2005 Virginia Classic, a blue ribbon in halter at MAPACA 2005 under Julio Sumar, and Best Multi/Grey fiber in show at the huge OABA Spinoff. He holds fineness over time and offers excellent quality in colored fiber. 

Awards: Too young to show until Fall 2008. 

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 Thistledown's Nerys Cairngorm
Born on May 1st, 2008, Nerys is the healthy 19lb solid black granddaughter of Accoyo Yupanqui (white), and multiple Champion silver grey, Request the Best. Her dam, Bronwen is the half Accoyo daughter of two full Peruvian whites, who showed as a white at MAPACA. Bronwen was bred with our silver grey Champion, Ben MacDhui in the hope of producing color. Their black daughter, Nerys, feels very fine and dense, with a silky soft handle, and very consistent coloring. She does not appear to have any white spots anywhere on her body and is growing like a weed! Her name is Welsh for "Lady" and Cairngorm represents her sire, MacDhui, named after the tallest mountain in the Cairngorm mountain range in Scotland.

Awards: Too young to show until Spring 2009. 

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 Thistledown's Meliora Cairngorm
This outrageously dense and crimpy black daughter of brown halter Champion, Holly Hawk, and silver grey Champion, Ben MacDhui, arrived on May 20th, 2008. Meliora is the second black daughter Dhui has produced for us this Spring! Her name is derived from the Latin "melior", meaning "better", and is also a name strongly associated with Cornwall, where there is a church named after St. Meliorius. This little lady is a bright and playful character, who looks to have excellent conformation and coverage and a fleece so dense she had to have a complete body shearing less than a week after she was born. Her Champion parents are two of our most densely-fibered alpacas, and we expect Meliora to remain in our foundation herd. 

Awards: Too young to show until Spring 2009. 

 

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 Paradigm ....... award-winning rose grey Checkoff daughter!
A daughter of the rose grey Checkoff and a maroon dam from the '98 import, Paradigm is a very beautiful dark rose grey female. Her sire Checkoff, a son of the famous Majestado of Peru, has all the characteristics of a quality herdsire - strong bone, incredible presence, excellent conformation and coverage from head to toe. Checkoff has absolutely amazing fiber, with excellent uniformity and fineness, incredible density and a consistent bold crimp. Paradigm's dam, Paraguari, is a top quality production female with excellent mothering abilities, who has maintained a fine fleece, with excellent uniformity and luster  - her fiber was still being shown when she was 6 years old, and still winning over full Peruvian fleeces! Paradigm has fine fiber, with beautiful handle, excellent staple length and a bold crimp. Her bone structure is substantial, her conformation balanced, and she has great coverage. Paradigm was bred with the silver grey Champion Ben MacDhui in Spring 2008. 

Awards: Paradigm placed second at the 2005 Southern Select, in a competitive full fleece halter class judged by Shannon McConnell. Paradigm placed 4th in a large class at the 2005 Kentucky Classic, judged by Julio Sumar. Her juvenile fiber  placed first at National Level, in the 2005 AOBA Fiber to Fashion HandCrafter's SpinOff competition, in a combined grey/multi class, where she scored 91 points out of a possible 100! Paradigm's yearling fleece was awarded a red ribbon by Kristin Buhrmann at MaPaca 2005, in competition with light and medium rose grey fleeces.  

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 Holly Hawk - Champion daughter of fawn and black Champion parents!
Holly Hawk is a beautiful dark brown, 7/8 Peruvian Champion, sired by the nationally acclaimed black Champion CPeruvian Black Hawk, who was imported in utero, and introduced a rare Peruvian bloodline to the U.S. Black Hawk won two consecutive black championships at Estes Park in 2000 and 2001, and first place fleece at the AOBA Nationals and Estes Park in 2001. He is producing Champion offspring, and Holly is no exception! Holly's light fawn dam, Clementine, is also a Champion, and a daughter of CPeruvian Jaxon, another renowned black Peruvian imported male. Holly was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV Nikos in Spring 2008.

Awards: Holly placed first in a shorn class of 4 at the 2004 ABR Fall Festival in Colorado. She placed first and was awarded the Color Championship in a large brown yearling class at the 2004 Mid-America Alpaca Show in Topeka, KS. At the 2005 Virginia Classic, she placed second in a class of 12 brown yearling females, judged by Ruth Inglefield. Mike Safley awarded Holly a third place in an extremely competitive full fleece halter class of 12 medium brown yearling females at MaPaca 2005, the largest alpaca show in the country, attracting top breeders from as far away as Oregon and Washington. He also commented that she was "the densest alpaca in the class".

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 Spring Blush ....... full Peruvian daughter of maroon 3X Champion!
The full Peruvian maroon daughter of two maroon parents, Blush offers exactly the kind of quality and rare color we value in our breeding program. Her sire, King Crimson, is the Champion full Peruvian maroon son of two true maroon parents. King has won numerous halter and fleece awards at regional and national level, including Best Hand, Best Luster and Best Brightness awards for his magnificent fiber. Blush's dam, Peruvian Daphne, is the rare true maroon daughter of two 6Peruvian imports. Daphne also possesses excellent fiber quality, strong, square conformation and a beautiful huacaya head. Blush produced an award-winning maroon daughter sired by the 2X Champion, 4X blue ribbon-winning silver grey Legend's Challenger of KPR in 2005, and is an excellent mother and milker. Blush was rebred with our award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra, in Fall 2007.

Awards: In her first show, Blush placed third in a large, competitive juvenile brown halter class at the 2004 North American Alpaca Show in Kentucky. Blush's yearling fleece was awarded a third place ribbon by Kristin Buhrmann at MaPaca 2005, a second place in the HandCrafters' SpinOff at the 2005 Blue Ridge Classic Alpaca Show, with a score of 91.5/100, and a blue ribbon in the Handcrafters' SpinOff at the Level 4 OABA 2005 Fleece Show, with a score of 92/100. Blush won another blue ribbon in the 2006 Southern Select SpinOff competition, with a score of 91.5/100, and a blue ribbon in the 2006 MOPACA SpinOff with a score of 95/100. 

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Noelani ....... full sister to Champion rose grey, McGinnis!
Noelani means "beautiful girl" in Hawaiian, and she is certainly that. Coming from a strong line of consistent genetics and award-winners, Lani is a full sister to the Champion rose grey, McGinnis, who sired a 2004 National Champion and a 2005 Futurity Champion. Noelani inherits Augusto and Hemingway genetics from her dam, and her sire is a rose grey son of Peruvian King. Lani has soft, fine, crimpy maroon fiber and strong potential to produce quality grey/black offspring. Her first cria wass the rose grey Lennox from a breeding to silver grey, and she is a wonderful mother. Lani was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV Nikos in Spring 2008.

Awards: Lani was shown once in full fleece halter at the 2006 Buckeye show, placing fourth, but she was by far the youngest in the class, being only 2 weeks over the age limit to show as a yearling. 

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 Thistledown's Brigit of Legend....... maroon daughter of 2X Champion silver grey!
Brigit is the absolute image of her award-winning true maroon dam, Spring Blush, who has fine, soft-handled crimpy fiber and is the full Peruvian daughter of two maroon parents, and a granddaughter of 5Peruvian Camelot. This little 3/4 Peruvian girl is sired by the Champion silver grey, Legend's Challenger, who has dense fiber, excellent staple length and fineness, and crimp from tip to toe. After he had been breeding for 6 months, this outstanding son of 5Peruvian Royal Inca Legend had a 2 year histogram of 20.9 / 4.5 / 21.5 / 4.0 and his blanket alone weighed over 5lbs. Named after an ancient Irish Goddess, whose name is derived from the Irish word "brigh", meaning strength, Brigit was up and running around the pasture shortly after her unassisted delivery. A gorgeous true maroon with black points, wonderful fineness and crimp, plus a handle like velvet, Brigit is the result of an outside breeding, and we plan to keep her for our foundation herd. Brigit was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV Nikos in Spring 2008.

Awards: Brigit placed sixth in her first halter class, at MAPACA in April 2007, when she was just 6 months old. Judge Kevin O'Leary commented that she had wonderful fineness and uniformity throughout the blanket, but that she was the youngest in the class and still had some growing to do! At the 2007 PAOBA show two weeks later, he placed her fourth in a class of 8 and again commented on her fineness, beautiful hand and uniformity throughout the blanket. Brigit's fiber won a blue ribbon in her first SpinOff competition, the 2007 LA Deep South Show, and a blue ribbon in the Spinoff at MAPACA 2008, the largest alpaca show in the US.

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 DSF Iris ....... award-winning daughter of Champion rose grey, McGinnis!
Iris is the brown / recessive black daughter of the Champion rose grey, McGinnis, who sired both the grey Color Champion female at the 2004 AOBA Nationals, and the 2005 grey Futurity Champion female, who went on to sell in the Futurity auction for $80,000! McGinnis has excellent, soft, crimpy rose grey fiber and a reputation for producing quality offspring.

Iris is a very attractive female, with soft-handled crimpy fiber, wonderful staple length, and good coverage. She is very balanced, with straight legs, lovely overall conformation and a perfect bite. She inherits her even, rich, brown coloring from her 3/4 Peruvian dam, and has excellent potential to throw quality black and grey. We actually prefer to breed our grey males to solid, dark-colored females with a grey heritage, to produce grey and black offspring. Iris should grow up to be an important asset in any breeding program, and as we watch her develop, we are leaning towards keeping her for ours! Iris was bred with our silver grey Champion, Ben MacDhui, in Fall 2007.

Awards: Iris placed second at her first show, in the juvenile dark composite class at MAPACA in 2007. Kevin O'Leary judged her conformation in the showring, and her fleece was judged by Wade Gease. Her juvenile fleece went on to win a blue ribbon in the 2007 PAOBA fleece show, a second place in the 2007 LA Deep South Spinoff competition and a second place in the prestigious National Fiber to Fashion Spinoff in 2008.  

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 Caterina ....... half-accoyo Champion granddaughter of Camilio and Victor's VAccoyo!
A half Accoyo granddaughter of Accoyo Camilio and Victor's VAccoyo, Caterina is well-furnished in beautifully marked fleece, conformationally correct and nicely balanced with good bone. Her fiber is just gorgeous - bright, with well-defined crimp extending to the ends and consistent throughout her blanket. The 2003 fiber analysis of her brown fleece only, was 21.8 AFD, 4.1 SD, 18.8 CV and 2.2 > 30 microns. Cat has an outstanding solid maroon sire, and a dark fawn dam who both shear 8lbs of fiber annually. Her dam is the winner of many blue ribbons and two reserve championships, and a daughter of Victor VAccoyo, who is no longer available for outside breedings. Cat has an irresistible, well-shaped head and wooly topknot, a light brown skirt, matching shoes, earrings, eyeliner and freckles! She was rebred with our true black full Peruvian Champion, Knightrider, in Spring 2008.

Awards: Caterina's fleece won a blue ribbon in the yearling multi class at MaPaca 2004, and Reserve Champion in the grey/multi category, with 200 fleeces in the show. Her 2004 fiber placed second in the HandCrafter's SpinOff at the 2005 Virginia Classic Show, first out of 13 entries at National Level, in the 2005 AOBA Fiber to Fashion HandCrafter's SpinOff competition, and another first at the AOBA National HandCrafters' SpinOff in June 2005. Caterina's 2005 fleece was awarded a red ribbon by Kristin Buhrmann at MaPaca 2005, the largest alpaca show in the country, which attracts top breeders from as far away as Oregon and Washington. In her first halter class entry, at the 2005 Blue Ridge Alpaca Show, Caterina won a second place ribbon and compliments from the judge for her excellent handle.

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 Thistledown's Nola Mavericka....... Champion daughter of Champion Peruvian sire !
This beautiful, MAPACA fleece Champion is the daughter of Champion pinto herdsire, Peruvian Maverick, and our MaPaca blue ribbon-winning pinto, Fiona. She is also half sister to the 2005 Virginia Classic brown female Champion, Thistledown's Myfanwy. Nola is a rare, 7/8 Peruvian brown, black and white "tricolor" - her head, neck, body and back legs are brown, her nose, ears, eyes and gums are black, and her front legs are white, with little brown shoes on each front foot and spots on her knees. VERY cute! She also has two full Peruvian black grandparents (Peruvian Matador and Black Jack Jax sired by 4Peruvian Black Magic). Nola is one of the most gentle, even-tempered alpacas we have ever owned. Her name means "famous" and is also a pet form of the Irish name Fionnghuala. Nola is absolutely covered with crimpy, dense, lustrous fiber, and just brimming over with presence and style! She was rebred with our true black full Peruvian Champion, Knightrider, in Spring 2008.

Awards:
  In her first showring appearance, Nola placed 2nd in a halter class of multi females at the 2006 Virginia Classic, against primarily fawn and white alpacas! Judge, Shannon McConnell, commented that all the females in the class had very similar crimp and lock structure, regardless of color. Jill McCloud awarded Nola's juvenile fleece a blue ribbon in the 2006 PAOBA fleece show. Nola won another blue ribbon at the 2006 Virginia State Fair Alpaca Show, which had over 100 entries. Jane Tellier awarded Nola second place in the halter class at the 2006 VAOBA Alpaca Expo, a Level III AOBA-Certified Show, and her fiber won a blue ribbon in the SpinOff at this show. The judge, Cathy Songer, who has over 20 years of spinning experience and has judged at AOBA Nationals and regularly judges the Virginia Classic SpinOff, commented that Nola's fiber was, "one of the nicest fibers I've ever spun" and awarded her 97.5 points out of 100! Nola won another blue ribbon for her fiber in the SpinOff competition at the 2006 Mid-America Alpaca Show, a second place ribbon out of 15 entries at National level in the 2006 Fiber to Fashion SpinOff, a second place in the OABA 2006 SpinOff and another blue ribbon in the 2007 Virginia Classic SpinOff competition. In 2007, Nola won the Championship and a blue ribbon for her fleece at the MAPACA Jubilee, and another blue ribbon in the AOBA National SpinOff competition. In 2008, she placed second in the fleece show at MAPACA 2008, the largest alpaca show in the US.
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 Thistledown's Agnes.......daughter of true black Champion Peruvian sire and 4X blue ribbon dam!
Agnes is a striking and unusual fawn and white pinto female, with excellent conformation, soft lustrous fiber, black markings on her face and four little brown shoes! Her dam, Aurora, is a beautiful girl with outstanding conformation and beautiful fiber, who won a blue ribbon every time she set foot in a show ring. She also won a blue ribbon for her fleece at MaPaca 2004. Aurora is a Peruvian Mr President granddaughter, and her sire is the grey Patagonia's Ulysses, who had an AFD of 21 microns in his seventh year. Agnes is sired by Knightrider, our full Peruvian Champion black male, who has excellent density, crimp and handle and wonderful conformation and presence. Knightrider is a Champion, 5X blue ribbon-winner and 2X AOBA National ribbon winner. Agnes was bred with our award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra, in Fall 2007.

Awards: Agnes placed third in halter at the 2008 Virginia Classic, her first show. 

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 Yupanqui's Bronwen ....... award-winning half-accoyo proven to produce black!
Bronwen is a full Peruvian, half accoyo female, with dark eyes and toenails, and dark markings around her nose, head and ears. Her award-winning dam, Jewel, is the only white offspring of 5Peruvian Chinchero, a true black herdsire imported from the Maychapampa herd in Peru. Jewel's dam, Marcela, produced the famous grey herdsire Silver Dollar, and the nationally respected fawn herdsire, Show Me the Money. Bronwen's sire is Ppperuvian Accoyo Yupanqui (deceased), the number one pick of the 1996 importation, who has produced multiple ribbon winners in a whole rainbow of colors. At 11 years of age, Yupanqui's fiber analysis was 24.0; 4.6; 18.9 and 7.4 > 30 microns, with wonderful crimp and a handle comparable to many yearlings. Bronwen has produced two true black females, from  breedings with our Champion "double black" herdsire, Peruvian Knightrider, and our silver grey Champion, Ben MacDhui. She was rebred with Knightrider in Spring 2008.

Awards: Bronwen won a blue ribbon in her first showring appearance, at the 2004 VA State Fair. Tim Lavan awarded her second place in a white yearling female composite class at MaPaca 2005, the largest alpaca show in the country, attracting top breeders from as far away as Oregon and Washington. 

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