PC Peruvian Knightrider

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The Champion, 2X AOBA National ribbon-winning, full Peruvian, true black PC Peruvian Knightrider was an obvious choice to include on our list of quality, colored herdsires. The son of two true black Peruvian imports, 5Peruvian Black Ice and 6Peruvian Anastasia, Knightrider offers rare black West Coast genetics in a magnificent package!  Knightrider has excellent conformation and beautiful dense, crimpy fiber with great staple length and handle, particularly for a mature black breeding male. He is producing quality black, grey and brown offspring, even out of white and beige dams. Knightrider will be at Thistledown for breedings in Virginia from approximately November 15 - May 15 each year, spending the remainder of his time in Maryland at Susquehanna Farms in Maryland. Limited breedings available!

Awards: Knightrider is a multiple ribbon-winner, placing second in full fleece halter at the 2002 AOBA National Conference, second at the 2002 Eastern Alpaca Jubilee, second at the 2002 PAOBA Breeders Showcase and first at the 2002 MI Int. Alpacafest (shorn). The following year he placed first at the 2003 PAOBA Breeders Showcase, third at the 2003 AOBA National Conference, first at the 2003 SE PA Alpaca Show (shorn), and first at the 2003 NY Empire Extravaganza (shorn). In 2004 he rounded off his showring career by winning a blue ribbon and Reserve Color Championship at the Virginia Classic!

 Ben MacDhui
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MacDhui is descended from a long and impressive line of greys and blacks. His sire, Request the Best, is one of the most spectacular grey herdsires in the country, a multiple blue ribbon winner who placed first at the AOBA Nationals for three successive years. From his black dam, MacDhui has inherited perfect conformation and a grey and black pedigree going back four generations, including SA Silverado and The Silversmith. MacDhui’s most recent fiber analysis is AFD 22.3; SD 5.2; CV 23.3; % > 30 microns = 8.6%. He is an extremely calm and good-natured herdsire, who rules the pasture with his presence, not untoward aggression. MacDhui has incredibly dense, medium silver grey fiber and AOBA winning genetics to go with his gentle disposition and his first offspring hit the ground in 2003.

Awards: MacDhui has won numerous ribbons, including a first at the 2001 MaPaca Jubilee in full fleece yearling halter, judged by Julio Sumar and Susan Tellez (over 900 alpacas), a second at the 2001 Triple Crown in Dayton Ohio, (over 250 alpacas), and a third at the 2000 Keystone Klassic in the Juvenile Grey class. In 2002 he came home with four ribbons from two shows. Anthony Stachowski awarded him Reserve Champion and a blue ribbon at the Virginia Classic. MacDhui went on to win a second place in adult male halter at the 2002 MaPaca Jubilee, judged by Mike Safley (over 1100 entries), and Nard Mullen awarded his fleece a second place ribbon at the same show. This boy is definitely improving with age! His first son, the light rose grey Kinross, won a blue ribbon at his first show in September 2004, and to date, Dhui has produced exclusively grey and black offspring out of beige, maroon and dark brown dams.

 PV Nikos
Nikos is an exceptional, half-accoyo, showy son of the renowned half-accoyo silver grey herdsire Aussie Rockford, owned by Peaceful Valley Alpacas in Oregon. Nikos is also out of one of the top quality grey females in the nation, Peaceful Valley Priya, bred and owned by Peaceful Valley Alpacas. Both of these alpacas are highly regarded winners of numerous blue ribbons. Nikos has outstanding conformation, a well-shaped beautiful head, extreme coverage and a dense topknot. His fleece is very, very fine and bright, with good architecture and a gorgeous dark silver grey color. He has well-defined narrow crimp throughout his fiber - all the way up his neck and into his topknot. Nikos is one of the most eye-catching and stylish grey males we have ever seen, with fantastic conformation, coverage, presence, movement and superb fiber. No outside breedings - his genetics are only available through his offspring.

Awards: Nikos was only shown twice as a yearling, at Level 3 and Level 5 shows, where he won a Championship and two blue ribbons. Jane Tellier awarded him the blue ribbon in a class of 10 yearling silver grey males at the 2005 Virginia Classic Show, plus the Grand Championship out of all 33 grey males in the show! Julio Sumar awarded Nikos the blue ribbon in a competitive full fleece halter class of dark silver grey yearling males at MaPaca 2005, the largest alpaca show in the country, which attracts top breeders from as far away as Oregon and Washington. His yearling fiber won a blue ribbon in the 2005 Blue Ridge Classic Handcrafters' SpinOff, with a score of 90.5 / 100 and another blue ribbon in the 2005 Mid-America Alpaca Show Handcrafters' SpinOff. At the 2005 OABA fleece show, Nikos placed first out of 9 Handcrafters' SpinOff entries in the yearling grey class, and won the purple ribbon for Highest Score of all the grey/multi entries in the show, with 93.5/100 points. This was a Level 4 fleece show, with 212 SpinOff entries! His yearling fiber placed second in the 2006 Virginia Classic SpinOff, and second in the 2006 Southern Select SpinOff competition. At the huge MaPaca 2006 fleece show, Nikos won a blue ribbon in his class and the Reserve Champion Grey Fleece banner for his 30-month shearing, with only 1.5 points less than the 10-month shearing of the Champion, who has a $7500 breeding fee! Diana Timmerman awarded Nikos 20/20 points for fineness and handle. Jill McCloud also awarded his fleece a blue ribbon at PAOBA in 2006 and his yearling fiber won a second place out of 8 entries at National level in the 2006 AOBA SpinOff competition. His 30-month shearing won a blue ribbon at the VAOBA Alpaca Expo SpinOff in 2006, judged by Cathy Songer, a second place in the 2006 Mid-America Alpaca SpinOff and a first place in the 2006 OABA SpinOff.

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 LZD Tundra

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Our full Peruvian herdsire, Tundra, is an excellent white male with wonderful conformation, coverage and presence. To complete the package, he has a beautiful fleece, with extreme character, luster, bundling and great density. Produced from the ideal match, breeding Marcela, the dam of "Show Me The Money" and "Silver Dollar", to Presidio, an outstanding Caligula son, we are hoping that Tundra will produce color - his dam and sire have already produced some of the best colored alpacas in the nation. Presidio already has 6 "Get of Sire" wins to his credit and was 2nd in "Get of Sire" at the 2004 National Show. His crias had won over 50 color championships and 80 blue ribbons at Level 3+ shows by the time Presidio was only 7 years old, firmly establishing him among the elite ranks of prepotent sires. Marcela's two colored boys, "Mo" and the grey "Silver Dollar", are both exceptional colored herdsires, renowned for throwing top-of-the-line greys. In his first three shows, Tundra demonstrated that he too is destined for greatness, placing second in three very large, white, full-fleece halter classes, the most competitive classes of the alpaca world!

Awards: 2nd Place in a class of 12 White Yearling Males, and part of Presidio's 6th blue ribbon-winning "Get of Sire" class, 2004 MOPACA show. 2nd Place in a class of 12 White Yearling Males, 2004 Ft. Worth. 2nd Place in a class of 13 White Juvenile Males, 2003 Great Western Alpaca Show, Denver CO. Tundra's fiber was awarded a blue ribbon in the white class of the 2005 Virginia Classic Handcrafter's SpinOff competition, a red ribbon at National level in the 2005 AOBA Handcrafters' SpinOff competition, and a first place at the VAOBA Alpaca Expo SpinOff competition. In 2007 his fourth shearing won another blue ribbon out of four entries in his age group at the Virginia Classic SpinOff.

Junior Herdsire Prospects

 Magnus Trujillo
Magnus is the last of his full Accoyo sire's line, and has fineness, crimp and luster in abundance. He is particularly exciting for us, as the grey markings around his face, and his dark toenails, combined with the color in his heritage, suggest the potential to produce elite-fibered colored alpacas. His dam, Goldie is a full Peruvian light fawn female, with crimp, fineness, good density and handle, and beautiful consistency to her fleece, which earned her the second place ribbon in a very competitive 2003 AOBA Nationals fleece show. A great mother and milker, Goldie has a perfect bite, solid conformation and a gorgeous head and top knot, and is proven to produce colored offspring. Magnus was sired by the full Accoyo Trujillo Alto Peru (deceased), an impressive son of Ppperuvian Mr President and a medium fawn dam, 4Peruvian Eurynome. Trujillo had incredible coverage and density, accompanied by a consistent, tight crimp, and at 5 years of age, his fiber was still exquisite - 18.6 AFD with an SD of 3.9 and 0.7 % of fibers over 30 micron. We intend to use Magnus as a herdsire in our colored breeding program.

Awards: Tim Lavan awarded Magnus a 5th in a class of 13 juvenile fawn males at PAOBA in 2007, commenting on his brightness and hand. He was one of the youngest in the class. His juvenile fiber won a second place in the 2007 VAOBA SpinOff, a third place out of 13 entries in the huge OABA 2007 Spinoff and a first out of 6 in the 2007 LA Deep South Show Spinoff competition. In 2008, his juvenile fiber won first out of 12 entries in the prestigious National Fiber to Fashion Spinoff, second in the Spinoff at MAPACA 2008, the largest alpaca show in the US, first at the PAOBA Breeders Showcase and second out of 9 entries in the AOBA National SpinOff competition.

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 Thistledown's Cameron Rush
Cameron Rush is a beautiful medium silver grey male with barely a spot on him anywhere. He weighed 21 lb 12 oz at birth, is healthy and full of energy, and has bone like an ox. With his fine and very long-stapled, soft-handled, uniform grey fiber, excellent bone structure and coverage, perfect bite and remarkable presence, Cameron has "herdsire" stamped all over him! His sire, our Champion grey Ben MacDhui, is a consistent producer of quality, colored progeny - his offspring that have been shown have won first, second or third place ribbons at Level III AOBA-certified shows or above. Ishbel, Cameron's dam, has tremendous presence and the most beautiful fine, soft-handled dark silver grey fiber, with amazing staple length. This multiple award-winning female also boasts heavy bone, awesome coverage, compact, typey conformation and a perfect bite. Ish comes from many generations of fine blacks and greys on both sides of her pedigree. At her 5th shearing as a breeding dam, she produced over 5 inches of fine, soft-handled fiber, suitable for making into high quality yarn. A half interest in Cameron is available for sale, and this is one junior herdsire prospect you really should not pass up if you are interested in blacks and greys that produce quality fiber over the long term!

Awards: In his first show, Cameron placed second out of all the greys in the Walking Fleece Fiber Futurity at the 2008 Virginia Classic. This class focuses specifically on fiber genetics and is intended to predict the potential impact of alpacas on the next generation. Cameron's juvenile fleece placed second in the fleece show at MAPACA 2008, the largest alpaca show in the US, and first at the 2008 PAOBA Breeders Showcase.

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