The Making of Champions Winners' Circle Sale

Best Man Snowmass

Winners’ Circle Sale – Phoenix, Arizona – February 24-25 • 2012 Make “THE MAKING OF CHAMPIONS EVENT” your destination of choice. THE MAKING OF CHAMPIONS IS:

• Dedicated to providing world class alpaca breeding stock

• Committed to sharing and providing innovations in the global alpaca industry

• An event in a warm, welcoming, and authentic environment

• Devoted to providing a great time for all!

New Breeders and Experienced Breeders

Julie and Don Skinner & Ursula and Ryen Munro will be available during this auction to discuss, share and present you with a wealth of knowledge about breeding alpacas and other aspects of the industry. Their combined knowledge represents the best the industry has to offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to get close and personal with two of the top breeders in the world. Both were named Breeder of the Year for two consecutive years and want to help you advance your breeding program and general knowledge of the alpaca industry.

A Special Offering at This Years FUTURITY 2012 Snowmass Alpacas is so pleased to have won Breeder of the Year for two years running at the Futurity Show and Sale. Now we’d like to offer the same opportunity to our future clients. All alpacas purchased at this year’s auction that meet eligibility requirements may be shown in the Futurity and the Small Breeders Challenge at no charge to the buyer – compliments of Snowmass Alpacas.

This year, Snowmass Alpacas will not be attending any shows. We want to give you the opportunity to purchase some of our finest show string animals and take them to show instead. We will continue to focus on producing the best genetics and to continue to advance all aspects of the alpaca industry.

We look forward to seeing you at this years sale!

Schedule of Events Friday, February 24th 3:00 pm: Welcome: Meet Hosts and Speakers: Open Pen Alpaca viewing 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Alonso Burgos Hartley, CEO of Grupo Inca and Director of Pacomarca Division: Part 1 “Alpaca” Hear from a renowned Alpaca expert on improved Peruvian breeding performances for “fleece to textiles.”

4:30: 5:30 Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres

Saturday, February 25th 9:30 am: Welcome: Meet Hosts and Speakers: Open Pen Alpaca viewing 9:30 am - 11:30 am: Open pen alpaca viewing (please note that pens will CLOSE at 12:00 pm to relieve stress on alpacas before sale THANK YOU) 10:00 am to 11:00 am: Alonso Burgos Hartley: Part 2 “Alpaca” A Peruvian Alpaca Breeding Perspective. SNOWMASS Royal Bales arrive in Peru.

How does this represent the US breeding programs? What are the most important fleece elements we should be breeding for? What are the differences in performance of Huacaya fleece styles in textiles?

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm: Lunch 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm (approximate): The Making of Champions – WINNERS’ CIRCLE SALE

For more information on any animals please contact: Snowmass Alpacas 270 Rapid Lightning Road Sandpoint, ID 83864 (208) 263-3300

Julie Skinner: (208) 290-1588 Don Skinner: (208) 290-1488 Visit: www.SnowmassAlpacas.com for more information

Celebrity Sales offers two types of proxy bidding:

1) Private “live” bidding 2) Not to exceed bids

Telephone bidding must be scheduled by 10:30am Mountain time on Saturday, February 25th. (12:30 eastern, 9:30 pacific). Please contact Tim Vincent for all proxy bidding at (541) 929-3941

Hosts Don and Julie Skinner – Ryen and Ursula Munro Both Snowmass Alpacas and Tripping Gnome Alpacas have achieved Breeder of the Year in their herd categories for two years running. Their combined knowledge of alpaca breeding and the industry as a whole are invaluable assets to anyone seeking to enter the industry and for those already participating.

Come and talk with the Skinners and Munros about any subject that you are concerned with. Both couples maintain a busy schedule and this is the time of the year they are available and want to help you make a difference in your breeding program.

The advancement of breeding alpacas and developing the alpaca industry as a whole is the Skinner’s and Munro’s main objective. They want to talk to you and help you achieve success and advance your breeding program.

Guests Alonso Burgos Hartley Born: Arequipa – Perú (1958) Studied: Grinnell College, Iowa Married to: Isabel Olivares Sons: Patricio (13) Martin (11) POSITIONS: - Manager International Alpaca Association - Director of Inca Pro-Alpaca and Colca Foundations - Manager PROALSA, Grupo Inca´s Alpaca Fiber Purchasing Company - Manager Peruvian Alpaca Consortium, Live Alpaca Exporting Company - Director General of Grupo Inca´s Vicuña Project - President and Creator of Alpaca Fiesta, 1997 and 2000 - Manager Alpaca111 - General Manager of PACOMARCA, Grupo Inca´s Experimental Alpaca Farm & Company - President of the Private Peruvian Alpaca Registry - Chairman Colca Lodge

Jared Johnston – Selle Design Group Selle Design Group is an all-inclusive marketing, design and technical group that specialize in developing the entire range of a corporate identity. With over twenty years of design and marketing experience, Jared Johnston is the creative director and project manager of the group. His knowledge ranges from understanding the fundamentals of marketing and design to coordinating a successful link between the creative and technical aspects associated with the development of a print and digital campaign. Jared will be available to discuss web development ideas as well as share alpaca marketing trends around the globe in both existing publications and new and upcoming alpaca publications.

The Making of Champions – More than thirty years of breeding experience has produced proven across-herd excellence

Snowmass Royal Bales Arrive in Peru

It has been a long and arduous journey, but Snowmass Alpacas, in conjunction with our new venture, Quechua Enterprises, has achieved an exciting milestone on the road to producing the finest fiber available.

This year, we sent five almost four hundred pound bales of Royal Fiber to Arequipa, Peru.

Here, it will be transformed into yarn by Inca Tops SAA, one of the largest and most recognized alpaca yarn manufacturers in the world. The resulting product will then be made into textiles by Grupo Inca. We are proud of this fiber’s quality and greatly anticipate the exceptional products it will generate.

We are also involved in producing textiles here in the United States, with hopes of seeing a viable American production run.

The process of creating first-rate fiber starts with producing, over time, the most outstanding genetics. From there, our shearing process has been optimized to collect only the best and most consistent fiber. We eliminate all contaminants to produce true Royal bales of fiber. It is our desire to establish a bale of fiber that is known to posses a high standard. This bale will not need to be handled as much as inferior fiber, which minimizes processing time. By maintaining a high level of quality control, we hope to create bales of fiber that will demand a higher price that reflects the value of the fiber.

This year, we have invited Alonso Burgos of Grupo Inca - one of the largest alpaca textile manufacturers - to speak at our Winners’ Circle Sale about what characteristics the industry is looking for in alpaca fiber. Burgos established the Pacomarco alpaca breeding program, to better the elite alpaca genetics into the Peruvian breeding programs and market. Since its inception, Pacomarco has led the way in Peruvian breeding practices. Its quality fiber goes directly into making top-of-theAbove Top: Snowmass bales arrive to be sorted. line textiles. Burgos is a key figure in the alpaca textile industry Above: Roberto Fioretto, General Manager of Inca Tops SAA (one of the largest and a top Peruvian breeder. We eagerly anticipate hearing him and most recognized Alpaca Top and Yarn manufacturers in the world), looks on as address micron, crimp and other characteristics of fine fiber and the Snowmass fiber is unloaded & sorted at Inca Tops. how they apply to current textile production trends.

Shearing, Sorting and Baling Snowmass Fiber

Lot #A – Donation For Medical Center at Casa Chapi Supreme FEMALE of Quechua lineage. This will be no ordinary female so COME SEE & BID. Take home Champion lineage and help be a champion of the Quechan People via this precious donation.

Quechua Benefit is an organization dedicated to helping the Quechua people in the highlands of Peru. We deliver medical, dental and optical care; distribute warm clothing; provide shelter, food, and sociological services with an emphasis on children.

The motivations of those who are brought to charitable work are equally as diverse. Many come through deeply held faith, some through a sense of gratitude for the people of Peru and others from a desire to connect with people from another culture and way of life.

As a non denominational faith-based non-profit, Quechua Benefit strives to unite those who feel a call and have a heart to serve the poorest of the poor in Peru. The Quechua often believe that their spirituality and their physical well being are one. We tell our mission participants: “Do not be afraid to pray with those you come in contact with including patients.”

Through our common purpose, we seek to lift up those we serve from physical, environmental and spiritual suffering.

Quechua Benefit began in 1996 with a simple request. Don Julio Barreda, a famous Peruvian alpaca breeder, asked if alpaca breeders in the United States could help the children of his pueblo.

Alpaca breeders from around the world, far more fortunate than the Quechua of Peru, have opened their hearts and given their worldly goods. This generosity has made it possible to provide free dental care to more than 50,000 people in forty communities, to aid earthquake victims in Ica, to respond to bone cracking winter freezes with antibiotics and alpaca blankets, to help sister Antonia, an 85 year-old Mary Knoll nun, feed 800 people a day at the church in Yanque, to build dormitories to house school children who live too far from school to attend, to support twenty-six girls at the Mosoq Runa orphanage in Macusani, to help deserving young adults attend college in Arequipa, and to fund lifesaving surgeries for the poorest of the poor.

The generosity has accomplished much.

Lot #1 Snowmass Legacy’s Lass (Beige, Female) & The Legend Continues ARI#: 828767

CIS#: 1284

Sire: Accoyo 4Peruvian Legacy 6016

Date of Birth: 1/3/01 Dam: Little Miss Jennifer

Daughter of Accoyo Legacy and Dam to no other than Snowmass MATRIX. Snowmass Legacy’s Lass is simply THE QUEEN. She’s rocked us with amazing cria time after time. This year her cria at side is another shining star. She was bred to Snowmass Quechua’s Continuum just before we lost him to an unfortunate cougar attack-so we were very anxious about this birth. Not knowing if she took to Continuum before his death we covered her with a breeding to Best Man. The breeding dates are on the border so we are awaiting the DNA results to confirm.

The cria is named THE LEGEND CONTINUES... and whether he is sired by Continuum or Best Man, you can be sure his namesake will be accurate.

Snowmass Legacy’s Lass is bred back to Best Man so nearly every bone in my body is telling me we should KEEP the boy at side. However he truly needs to be shown and this year it is about offering our show string as well as the VERY BEST of Snowmass production females.

We are excited to see what YOU can produce with these amazing genetics that have done SO MUCH for US!

Histograms Shearing# 1 3 4 5 6 7

Snowmass Quechua’s Continuum

Snowmass The Legend Continues

AFD 19.9 18.2 19.5 20.9 20.6 21.1

SD 3.6 4.0 3.9 4.0 4.0 4.1

CV %>30 CURV 18.1 1.3 51.1 22.0 1.1 52.6 20.1 1.6 51.0 19.3 2.5 43.2 19.3 2.4 50.7 19.2 2.8 47.6

SPIN Fineness 19.0 17.9 18.2 20.1 19.7 20.3

Snowmass Legacy’s Lass Dam to World Classic Snowmass Matrix

Snowmass

MATRIX

Lot #2 Snowmass Lillystar (Female, White) & Snowmass Divine Heart ARI#: 1397468

CIS#: 1294

Sire: Snowmass Perfection

Date of Birth: 1/28/04 Dam: 4605 Ppperuvian Lilly

Snowmass Lillystar’s Dam, 4605 Ppperuvian Lilly, was one of the first Accoyo females to come into the US – selected by Rodger and Clyde Haldane.

Accoyo Lilly 4605 has what we would call perfect alpaca genetics. She is the Dam to some of our strongest white genetic figures such as Snowmaster, Accoyalianza, and Bullet Proof. Every one of her progeny has had significant impacts in alpaca herds around the world.

Lillystar is aptly named as she is the Star of Lilly’s female production.

We have primarily kept Accoyo Lilly’s offspring exclusive to our breeding program, except in case an offer was significant enough to justify a release.

Such was the case with the sale of SNOWMASTER. Lillystar will be the 2nd EVER release of one of Accoyo Lilly’s progeny!

Lillystar has been a dedicated breeding female who has imparted her genetic excellence to our herd.

Her first son, Quechua’s Star of Bethlehem, was quite possibly the most amazing Quechua son we had ever seen; sadly he was injured just as he reached breeding age! He has been soldiering through a long recovery over the years, and we believe he will be capable of breeding for the first time very soon. If we did not have this chance of his genetics remaining in our herd we would not be offering Snowmass Lillystar.

It would be in our best interest to keep her son at side as a 2012 show string prospect and sell her re-bred, however we have resolved to sell our show prospect cria this year. This is a rare opportunity to own Snowmass Lillystar as well as her glorious son sired by Snowmass Divine Inspiration – Snowmass Divine Heart. Divine Heart will be outstanding for showing in 2012. Also she is bred to Snowmass BEST MAN!!! Don’t miss this Heavenly Happening!!!!!

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3 4 5 6

Snowmass Divine Inspiration

AFD 16.4 18.8 20.3 20.8 23.9 22.2

SD 3.6 4.1 4.7 4.2 4.6 4.6

Snowmass Divine Heart

CV %>30 CURV 22.0 0.5 42.0 21.6 1.5 50.8 23.0 3.4 44.7 20.2 3.5 53.4 19.2 8.3 39.2 20.7 2.7 49.5

SPIN Fineness 16.1 18.4 20.1 20.1 23.0 21.5

Lot #3 Snowmass Quechua’s Heirloom (Female, White) ARI#: 30408579

CIS#: 724

Sire: Snowmass Quechua

Date of Birth: 10/5/05 Dam: Ppperuvian Chastity 5014

If you are on the hunt for royal fine and strong genetic female lines then you do not want to miss this direct line to Snowmass Quechua – Snowmass Quechua’s Heirloom.

Her Sire, Snowmass Quechua has inarguably established himself as the alpaca who has advanced the breed to places previously unseen in terms of fleece qualities and styles.

If you trace the pedigree back through her maternal lines you’ll see Ppperuvian Chastity, perhaps one of the finest Sollocota females in production in North America. Chastity is also the progenitor of the most valued – Freedom line starting with Snowmass Liberty Bell (Chastity x Legacy), Snowmass Freedom (SM Liberty Bell x SM Lenox) and SM Freedom Bells (Freedom x SM Royal Challenger) owned by yours truly and happily ensconced into our foundation herd. Year after year, Heirloom’s fleece is a stunner. She has maintained her fineness and uniformity of her silky, high amplitude crimp style, well nourished handle and brightness.

Quechua’s Heirloom’s cria, TGF Heirloom’s Keep-Sake, is a show quality female with the proven and superior genetic pedigree. If you take a moment and connect the dots, the picture of a proven, superior genetic pedigree will emerge. By breeding Quechua’s Heirloom to CCNF Archangel we incorporated those Legacy and Chastity genetics once again.

Taking another cue from the past, we bred Heirloom to Snowmass Royal Challenger – this breeding produced a beautiful fawn female, Royal Heirloom. She is confirmed pregnant for a 2012 cria. Keep-Sake sells with a breeding to any unrestricted TGF Herdsire when she is ready.

Lot #4 Snowmass Sweet Elegance ARI#: 32349610

CIS#: 4173

Sire: Snowmass Persistence

(Female, White)

Date of Birth: 7/30/11 Dam: Snowmass Invincibly Elegant

Beautiful Sweet Elegance in lacey silk white fleece carrying within a strong line of Elite white genetics. A lovely young female. We wanted to represent one of our first cria from Snowmass Persistence at show this 2012 so we will sell her to do so.

We are very excited about Snowmass Persistence. He is one of two remaining direct son’s of 6Peruvian Monarch. Monarch is one of the only studs which comes directly from the Sollocota breeding program of Peru. Sadly, Monarch died this year.

Monarch’s first son and older brother to Persistence is Snowmass Sub Zero.

This line is as valuable as the Quechua line in the advancements of our breeding program. 6Peruvian Monarch is the highest rated stud in his ability to reduce SD and CV ratios in the fleece which is a direct reflection of CONSISTENCY in FINENESS. You can see this in Persistence and Sub-Zero and their offspring histograms.

Persistence CV has never been higher than 3.7 and his SD 17.5 giving him a Spin Fineness of 17.8 Snowmass Sweet Elegance is his first daughter. He has had 2 more and one male offspring so far so this is a sacrifice for us to be selling his first.

Sweet Elegance’s Dam, Snowmass Invincibly Elegant, is a direct Quechua daughter.

At 6 yrs of age she still remains with an AFD of 20.1 and SD of 20.8 giving her a spin fineness of 19.5.

You have the assurance that your purchase is solid in advanced alpaca fleece genetics with this gorgeous young Elegant female.

Lot #5 Snowmass Bells of Beauty ARI#: 32124545

CIS#: 3947

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

(Female, Beige) Date of Birth: 8/18/10

Dam: Snowmass Snowbells

Snowmass Bells of Beauty is the premier Snowmass Elite Legend daughter of the 2011 show string.

Her fleece simply cries for attention and her pedigree rings a tone of fleece genetics purity.

Just have a look at her and her lineage and you will see all you need to know.

Here is a “genuine treasure� if there ever was one!

SNOWMASS BELLS OF BEAUTY She, as all maidens and open females, comes with a SNOWMASS Breeding.

Histogram Shearing# 1

AFD 15.7

SD 2.9

CV %>30 CURV 18.5 0.3 50.0

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

SPIN Fineness 14.9

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

Lot #6 Snowmass Freedom (Female, Beige) & Divine Freedom ARI#: 1217803

CIS#: 1191

Sire: Snowmass Lenox

Date of Birth: 8/29/04

Dam: Snowmass Liberty Bell

Did you ever think we would sell our Freedom?

We sure didn’t, but we have been challenged by some admired alpaca breeders to prove we are truly releasing our show winning producers. Therefore we are in fact selling Freedom and her cria at side, who is sired by Divine Inspiration, SNOWMASS DIVINE FREEDOM. Snowmass Freedom’s Dam – Snowmass Liberty Bell – is well known by most everyone. She was our treasure of all treasures. Tragically we lost Liberty Bell last year, and were left with Freedom and her progeny to carry on her genetics.

Ask Tripping Gnome farms who they cherish in their breeding program and they will tell you about Freedom Bells – Snowmass Freedom’s first cria and Fawn Female Futurity Champion 2007.

We keep a few of Snowmass Freedom’s sons in our breeding program: Snowmass Moondance – 1st place white show male at the Futurity and IAO Champion 2011. 4 year shearing 18.1 3.5 18.5 0.4 Spin Fineness 17.2 (ROYAL).

Snowmass Independence, IAO Champion.

Snowmass Defiance, Beige show winner headed for Stud Row 2012. He took a 5th out of 14 of the most awesome white yearling Futurity contenders, but we like him better than any other males we showed. His histogram will tell you why. 15.3 2.3 14.0 0.1 curv 58. REVOLUTIONARY>>> True Merino style just like his Dam!!!

The cria at Freedom’s side, Snowmass Divine Freedom, may very well be her best son yet. Freedom is also BRED TO our SUPREME CHAMPION Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna – one of the Lucky few in the sale ! This is no ordinary female and this will be one EXTRAORDINARY Cria! She is a key to the REVOLUTION IN EVOLUTION of alpaca excellence.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

AFD 15.7 16.8 19.8 19.6 20.6 21.6 21.8

SD 4.7 3.6 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.8 3.8

CV %>30 CURV 29.8 1.2 54.3 21.5 0.4 58.7 20.9 1.3 50.2 20.7 1.4 50.7 18.7 1.8 49.0 17.6 2.2 45.9 17.4 2.5 43.1

SPIN Fineness 16.6 16.4 19.2 19.0 19.7 20.4 20.6

Snowmass Divine Freedom

Son: Snowmass Independence

Son: Snowmass Defiance

Son: Snowmass Moondance

Son: Snowmass Freedom Bells

E N T E R P R I S E S

Reserve Herdsire of the Year 2010

Reserve Herdsire of the Year 2011

Elite White Fleece

Herdsires

First Place – Get of Sire

Lot #7 Snowmass Best Man ARI#: 1217445

(Male, White)

CIS#: 1105

Sire: Snowmass Quechua

Date of Birth: 9/14/04

Dam: Snowmass Wedding Pacabells

Snowmass Best Man is one of a kind. He is the first son of Snowmass Quechua to possess a TRUE SILKY FLEECE – much like Suri fleece, but with intense curvature.

At birth, Best Man had long draping staples of bright fiber that covered his entire body including his neck, legs and head. The consistency of the locks – as you can see in his pictures – is what makes Best Man’s genetics truly remarkable. His offspring are also showing this rare trait.

The varying silky fleeces which his offspring are showing continually surprise us with INTENSE BRIGHTNESS – the likes of which we have never seen before.

As a testament to the value of Best Man’s silky-type fleece genetics his offspring took 1st place in the 2011 Futurity Get of Sire class. He was also 2011 LIGHT Reserve HERD SIRE OF THE YEAR, alongside his brother Snowmass Elite Legend.

Best Man is truly a revolutionary for a new generation of Huacaya Fleece.

Offering him for sale is one of the hardest things we have ever done. He is one of the most unique of Quechua’s sons, and is in our opinion the rarest. He has already made a profound impression in Elite Huacaya breeding programs, and will continue to do so for many years to come.

Fiber and Fleece Description

Long extraordinarily bright lock-like staples which have broader crimp but well defined and become more defined in frequency in subsequent shearings.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

AFD 13.6 15.2 15.9 17.0 20.0 17.6 19.0

SD 4.0 3.7 4.1 3.9 4.7 4.0 4.2

CV %>30 CURV 29.5 0.7 49.0 24.2 0.3 51.2 25.7 0.9 51.5 23.1 0.6 44.2 23.5 2.7 36.9 22.7 0.6 47.6 22.2 1.6 52.7

SPIN Fineness 14.4 15.2 16.2 17.6 19.9 17.4 18.7

Lot #8 Snowmass Prodigy’s Promise (Female, White) & Snowmass Prodigy’s Best Man ARI#: 31541282

CIS#: 3726

Sire: Snowmass Prodigy

Date of Birth: 6/8/08

Dam: CCNF Reciprosity

Prodigy’s Promise is an all star Snowmass Prodigy daughter.

Her Dam is CCNF Reciprocity who we purchased at the Elite Auction from Ian & Jennifer Lutz of Cas-Cad-Nac farm. We purchased Reciprosity because we knew she, having Cas-Cad-Nac’s elite genetics, would integrate well with our own breeding goals. She has produced EXACTLY what we hoped for and more!

When you see Prodigy’s Promise son, Snowmass Prodigy’s Best Man, by her side, you will come to understand the value here.

This young male has an extraordinarily Silky fleece that will be sure to dazzle the judges in the coming 2012 shows. He was glistening with long brilliant staples of fleece at his birth and is continuing to show amazing promise.

Every time we look at him we think twice, “Lets KEEP him.” Too late.... we have agreed they are to be a PROMISE package for our 2012 sale.

Oh, and to top it all off.... Prodigy’s Promise sells bred to Snowmass Elite Legend!!!

THIS IS A MUST CONSIDER SHOW PACKAGE FOR THE WINNER’S CIRCLE!

Fiber and Fleece Description

You must come to the sale to see the developments of this gorgeous young Best Man son’s fleece.

Dam: CCNF Reciprosity

Snowmass Prodigy’s Best Man

Service Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

Lot #9 Snowmass Messiah’s Grace (Female, White) & Snowmass Best N Grace ARI#: 30338524

CIS#: 1343

Sire: Snowmass Messiah

Date of Birth: 9/17/05 Dam: Snowmass Victoria

Snowmass Messiah’s Grace is a foundation Snowmass Messiah Daughter with Accoyo Legacy and Accoyo Snowmaster genetics. She has been bred to our Snowmass Quechua line and has proven to produce truly magical fleeces.

Her first son, Royal Pursuit – sired by Matrix – was chosen as the male to send to New Zealand and represent our best genetics. Her next Matrix son, Matrix Messenger, remains with us in the USA. At 3 years his histogram is 17.6 3.7 21.1 0.5 Spin Fineness of 17.1.

Now Messiah’s Grace sells with her first cria by Snowmass Best Man, Best N Grace! He has a radiant fleece which surpasses even her previous sons!

I have to keep reminding myself of the commitment we’ve made to sell our 2012 show string, otherwise he would not be leaving the farm!!

Here is yet another Top-Notch Snowmass Show package!

OH don’t forget... she is bred back to SNOWMASS BEST MAN!

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3 4 5 6

AFD 16.2 17.4 16.8 19.5 20.4 22.5

SD 4.1 4.6 4.3 4.9 4.5 4.9

CV %>30 CURV 25.5 0.9 53.6 26.4 2.0 52.5 25.4 1.3 58.3 22.8 2.5 57.8 22.2 3.4 52.8 21.8 5.8 53.4

SPIN Fineness 16.4 17.8 16.5 19.3 20.1 22.0

Lot #10 Snowmass Chiribaya Charm ARI#: 32124002

CIS#: 4000

Sire: Snowmass Challenger

(Female, Light Fawn)

Date of Birth: 8/5/10 Dam: Snowmass Chirabaya

If you are looking for some of the finest Fawn genetics that money can buy you have found one of them right here.

Snowmass Chirbaya Charm has a 16.9 AFD and Spin Fineness of 16.3. Her sire Snowmass Challenger is one of our finest standing solid Fawn males in our herd with an AFD of 17.1 at 5 years of age, starting his first year at 14.9.

His AFD has remained at 17.1 for 3 years. Challenger is out of a Peruvian Drambuie line matched with Legacy Gold daughter of which resulted in a ROYAL FINE alpaca stud male.

Snowmass Chirabaya Charm is bred to Snowmass Conopa for which we are predicting to be a medium to light Fawn with one of the most ADVANCED fawn fleeces you could ever wish for!

She is one who is eligible for Futurity 2012 and other shows of course. We feel she would do extremely well. She is not due with cria until the fall 2012 and with care could easily be shown. She is a true charm any way you go with her.

Histogram Shearing# 1

AFD 16.9

SD 3.4

CV %>30 CURV 20.1 0.4 47.7

SPIN Fineness 16.3

Lot #11 Snowmass Snow Sage ARI#: 31139120

CIS#: 1614

Sire: Snowmass Matrix

(Female, White)

Date of Birth: 7/17/07 Dam: Snowmass Crystal Bouquet

Snowmass Snow Sage is our most cherished of Snowmass Matrix progeny.

She is a picture-perfect alpaca with a fleece of Champions. The judges she has presented herself in front of have all been awestruck by her presence and over all excellence. She is exactly what we strive to achieve in our breeding program! She is just 4 years of age and in her prime!! To let her go is very painful!!! We are confident the progeny of her breeding to Snowmass Conopa, and all of her future progeny, will be in the WINNER CIRCLE!

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3 4

AFD 14.3 19.2 20.9 20.1

SD 2.6 3.1 3.6 3.3

CV %>30 CURV 18.1 0.1 57.9 16.1 17.9 50.1 17.2 1.1 48.3 16.3 0.7 51.1

SPIN Fineness 13.2 17.9 19.7 18.9

March 2008 - First - International Alpaca Odyssey March 2008 - Champion - International Alpaca Odyssey April 2008 - First - The Futurity April 2008 - Champion - The Futurity May 2008 - First - AOBA National Show May 2008 - Champion - AOBA National Show April 2009 - First - The Futurity April 2009 - Reserve Champion - The Futurity June 2009 - First - AOBA National Fleece Show June 2009 - Champion - AOBA National Fleece Show April 2010 - First - The Futurity May 2010 - First - International Alpaca Odyssey May 2010 - Champion - International Alpaca Odyssey March 2011 - First - International Alpaca Odyssey Fleece Show Sire: Snowmass Matrix

Lot #12 Snowmass Satin Symphony (Female, White) & Snowmass Prodigious ARI#: 31541503

CIS#: 1573

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

Date of Birth: 9/19/08

Dam: Snowmass White Satin

Here is a truly valuable ELITE WHITE PRODUCTION package!

Snowmass Satin Symphony is a wonderful young female sired by Snowmass Elite Legend. Her Dam is Snowmass White Satin – a direct Hemingway and 4Peruvian Isabella daughter. Every member of her pedigree is among the highest rated in Elite White production.

Snowmass Elite Legend: HERD SIRE OF THE YEAR 2010 & 2011 Supreme Champion Halter, and Supreme Champion Fleece. It would be criminal not to make his genetics available at this 2012 WINNERS CIRCLE SALE. Snowmass Satin Symphony also sells with her show quality son Snowmass Prodigious, at side.

PRODIGIOUS adjective 1. extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force 2. wonderful or marvelous.

His sire is Snowmass Royal Prophecy – one of our finest Snowmass Trilogy sons.

Satin Symphony is also bred to an exciting Elite Stud, Snowmass SEVEN BELOW! The crosses with Elite Legend and Seven Below are producing cria with unparalleled brightness in their fleeces. You will see for yourself with this package!!

Histograms Snowmass Prodigious

Shearing# 2 3

AFD 16.7 21.1

SD 3.5 3.7

Snowmass Prodigious

CV %>30 CURV 20.9 0.5 58.0 17.7 1.7 49.0

SPIN Fineness 16.2 19.0

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Lot #14 Snowmass Gaze of Sunshine (Female, Light Fawn) & Snowmass Gaze of GOLD ARI#: 31349932

CIS#: 4117

Sire: PNA Poseidon’s Isaac

Date of Birth: 6/25/09

Dam: Snowmass Cashmina Gold

Snowmass Gaze of Sunshine is simply GORGEOUS with stunning Fawn fleece with impeccable consistency and EXCELLENCE through and through. Its no fluke as her Dam line is one of a significant combination. Her Dam being from both Snowmass Matrix on the Maternal line and Snowmass XXXtreme on the Paternal line.

Her sire is PNA Poseidon’s Isaac who brings a Paternal line of Caligula and Accoyo Reyna and Dom Lucilo via Accoyo Royal Fawn. Her son at side, Snowmass GAZE OF GOLD, is sired by Champion Snowmass Royal Gold, one of the lead produced Royal Challenger and Legacy Gold lines. GAZE OF GOLD is ready for the 2012 show circuit himself.

This is a TREMENDOUS Fawn genetic package. Again, another pair very hard to replace and hard to let go. We have just sold Snowmass Royal Gold, now owned by Mark Cross of Rock Creek Alpacas and we do not own Poseidon’s Isaac. To top this off, this year we have bred Gaze of Sunshine to Snowmass Conopa.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2

Sire to Gaze of Gold: Snowmass Royal Gold

Gaze of Gold Fleece

AFD 16.6 18.5

SD 3.6 3.5

CV %>30 CURV 21.8 0.7 50.9 18.8 0.6 50.3

SPIN Fineness 16.0 17.7

Lot #15 Snowmass Highland Rainbow ARI#: 31139151

CIS#: 1224

(Female, Dark Fawn)

Date of Birth: 9/3/07

Sire: Snowmass Quechua’s Highlander

Dam: Snowmass Rainbow Joy

Snowmass Highland Rainbow is one of our finest Dark Fawn reserved genetic lines.

She is also one of our show string females we offer for our Winners’ Circle Sale 2012.

Highland Rainbow in her first show stood in a very respectable 2nd place at the 2008 Futurity as a juvenile over another Snowmass Female in first place. We truly overall like Highland Rainbow above the first place female. She has a very strong frame and overall has better looks and presence with an equally dense fine fleece as they come in color.

Highland Rainbow is one of the few Quechua’s Highlander offspring, and the only cross with Rainbow Joy, which brings the most awesome colorful genetic lines ever produced.

We started to breed her in the fall of 2010 and this was to a young stud who did not settle until the following spring so she was left open until this year. We have bred Snowmass Highland Rainbow to one of our proven up and coming Elite white studs, Snowmass Elite Endurance. His Dam, Snowmass Love’s Enduring Promise, is a Mutli-Champion Futurity & AOBA winner in both fleece and halter.

Elite Endurance’s offspring are just being born and we could not be more impressed.

Highland Rainbow has been confirmed pregnant to him. This will be a very exciting Elite cria. We are confident that she will make the new owner very proud with enduring fine beautiful cria for years to come.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2

AFD 19.3 19.3

SD 4.5 4.1

CV %>30 CURV 23.1 1.1 39.2 20.9 1.9 51.6

SPIN Fineness 19.0 18.9 Snowmass Quechua’s Continuum

Snowmass Love Continues

Lot #16 Snowmass Love Continues ARI#: 32800722

CIS#: 4160

(Female, Light Fawn)

Date of Birth: 8/2/11

Sire: Snowmass Quechua’s Continuum

Dam: Tegan’s Claer Seren

Snowmass Love Continues is a beautiful Love line daughter with a special story. Her sire was our #1 Beige Matrix Champion son, Snowmass Quechua’s Continuum. We lost him this year after being one of the surviving victims of Cougar attack. We have a small and very treasured number of his offspring and now he is gone.

Love Continues is a beautiful token of him and his excellence. She is on our 2012 show list and we really struggled with putting her in Winner’s Circle Sale as having a hard time letting her go for all the reasons above. So you have a very unique and special line of genetics that will only truly carry on through her.

Have a little ALPACA love and bring her home to show this 2012.

Snowmass Conopa

Lot #17 Snowmass Conopa XXX ARI#: 30339231

CIS#: 1144

Sire: Snowmass Infinity

(Male, Medium Fawn)

Date of Birth: 6/22/05 Dam: Snowmass Simply Scrumptious

Snowmass Conopa is suitably named after Dr. Jane Wheeler and her husband Dr Raul Rosadio’s non profit organization “CONOPA” which is dedicated to the conservation and protection of the wild vicuña and alpaca.

Snowmass Conopa was the best candidate to name and dedicate to their efforts as he embodies all our efforts to preserve the fineness of the vicuña while we advance overall fiber quality and color consistency. He is a testament to the advanced possibilities inherent in Huacaya alpacas.

Conopa’s entire production of offspring are showing the same traits of fineness and consistency in their fleeces. Every Conopa progeny we have shown has been at the top of their class in the WINNERS’ CIRCLE. His Son Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna won Champion and Supreme Champion 2011.

Conopa’s Dam Snowmass Simply Scrumptious has infused her genetic strength through him with his Sire Snowmaster – also a huge element in our advanced breeding program. The combination is completely unique, so there is no other Male quite like him.

Conopa is one of the HUGE sacrifices we are making in letting our exclusive genetics out of our program. However, we think it is time for the WORLD alpaca industry at large to be in the TEXTILE WINNER’S CIRCLE. Snowmass Conopa will undoubtedly take you there!

Fiber and Fleece Description

Carries great high Curve 4 yrs remained to have a high curve 58.7, and high frequency of tight merino vicuña crimp with extreme density forming tight clusters of uniformly crimped fibers.

CONSISTENCY GRADE A BRIGHTNESS GRADE A FINENESS GRADE 1 until age 4 FINENESS GRADE 2 CURRENT age 6 years Excellent brightness and extreme consistency of fiber character over the entire blanket extending into the extremities.

Histograms Shearing# 1 3 4 5 6

AFD 18.0 18.9 20.6 22.1 22.8

SD 4.4 4.5 4.9 5.4 5.2

CV %>30 CURV 24.2 1.7 53.5 23.7 2.3 58.7 23.9 4.5 52.7 24.4 7.2 51.5 22.8 7.8 49.9

SPIN Fineness 18.0 18.0 20.6 22.1 22.5

Lot #18 Snowmass Conopa’s Inca ARI#: 32350272

CIS#: 4151

Sire: Snowmass Conopa XXX

(Female, White)

Date of Birth: 7/30/11 Dam: Snowmass Royal Inca

WOW...wait until you get your hands on this girl!

Snowmass Conopa’s Inca’s fleece is pure EYE CANDY – bright very tight Merino-Romney style crimp that lies consistently over her entire body!

NO surprise and genetic proof of the excellence found within CONOPA, and this young female is certainly one of his stars.

She will be the one that judges who like bundles of beautiful tight crimp will LOVE, as we do.

Her Dam, who we are keeping in our breeding program, is equally stunning.

We would rather it be that we keep Conopa’s Inca and sell her mother, but she NEEDS TO BE SHOWN in 2012 so HERE YOU GO! She comes with – as do all others in the sale that are eligible – prepaid entry to the 2012 Futurity.

When she is of age, she comes with a breeding to a perfect mate via Snowmass Elite Stud.

Please take her home and TAKE HER TO SHOW!

Lot #19 Snowmass Sweet Array (Female, Beige) & Snowmass XXXodus ARI#: 31540193

CIS#: 3826

Sire: Snowmass Soul Mate

Date of Birth: 7/13/09 Dam: Snowmass Victorian Rose

Snowmass Sweet Array is a lovely Snowmass Soul Mate daughter.

Soul Mate is a top Quechua son and the only son to survive his Dam Snowmass Epiphany who we lost in 2007.

Sweet Array’s Dam, Victorian Rose, is a medium fawn female with Peruvian Chaccu, Accoyo Victor, and Hemingway in her lineage. The combination of her and Soul Mate’s genetics make Sweet Array very unique to our breeding herd.

Sweet Array is the very first Soul Mate daughter we are selling and is 1 of 2 females selected to sell bred to our Supreme Champion stud, Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna (co-owned with world class breeder Tripping Gnome Alpacas). Currently we are the only ones who hold these genetics, and we are only selling 2 females bred to him this year!

Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna is just a bit over 2 years old and is just now starting his career. He will go to Tripping Gnome this next year.

To Sweeten this deal even more, Sweet Array sells with an outrageously handsome male cria at her side, Snowmass XXXODUS. XXXodus is sired by Champion Conopa son, Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy.

XXXodus’s color, a beautiful golden fawn, is so incredibly uniform over his entire body, and his brightness/handle is like Silk. We are very excited for his future as a superior breeding stud. What he brings to the table for Elite color fiber genetics is revolutionary!

We can assure you that you will not find this combination of genetics anywhere else in the world. We are very proud to release them this year at our Winners’ Circle Sale!

Histograms Shearing# 1 2

AFD 18.9 20.9

SD 3.9 3.6

Snowmass Soul Mate

CV %>30 CURV 20.5 1.1 42.3 17.1 1.3 43.4

SPIN Fineness 18.3 19.1

Snowmass XXXodus

Snowmass Delightful Duet Dam to Snowmass Elite Legend

Lot #20 Snowmass Delightful Duet ARI#: 837275

CIS#: 1156

Sire: Snowmass Snow King

(Female, White)

Date of Birth: 6/21/02 Dam: Peruvian Andean Song

Snowmass Delightful Duet is one of our all time most treasured production females.

Her production has taken us to the top at shows, and to the Elite level in our breeding program.

Her Dam/Sire and Grand Dam/Grand Sire are our most favored white genetic lines.

Look at Delightful Duet’s CV history! “REMARKABLE.” It’s no wonder she has created Herdsire of the Year quality offspring like Snowmass Elite Legend.

She also has produced (Matrix son) Snowmass Andean Dancer, and (Best Man son) Snowmass Best Man’s Legend.

All of her offspring have spin fineness under 20 microns to date and all have lower CV’s than their AFD. This is genetic potency.

She is bred to Snowmass BEST MAN and carries one of the most valuable cria we can currently create.

We are extremely PROUD to present her in our 2012 production sale.

Fiber and Fleece Description CONSISTENCY GRADE A BRIGHTNESS GRADE A FINENESS GRADE 1

Histograms

Shearing# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

AFD 14.6 17.8 19.5 19.0 19.1 18.4 20.9 21.6

SD 2.4 3.1 3.2 3.5 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.3

CV %>30 16.1 0.2 17.4 0.6 16.5 0.7 18.6 0.7 17.2 0.5 16.4 0.4 14.9 0.9 15.4 1.4

CURV SPIN Fineness n/a n/a n/a n/a 44.9 18.3 51.1 18.2 50.4 18.0 46.3 17.5 52.6 19.4 48.0 20.1

Snowmass Pure Passion

Lot #21 Snowmass Star of Gold (Female, Dark Fawn) & Snowmass Star of Passion ARI#: 31541367

CIS#: 1632

Sire: Snowmass Overture

Date of Birth: 6/26/08

Dam: Snowmass Golden Rose

Snowmass Star of Gold was our leading fawn female – Snowmass Overture and Golden Rose daughter – for the show season 2010. She took a blue at the International Show in one of the largest classes, in which we had a few other prized Snowmass daughters competing against her. Star of Gold was our favorite.

She has a very exciting pedigree with a Quechua white line and a well-proven Elite color show line. Golden Lace, Legacy Gold, and Royal Rose are a few to name in her lineage.

She remains to this day one of our favorite color females. She was bred to Snowmass Pure Passion – a spectacular light fawn Matrix son – and produced an outstanding beige male we named Snowmass Star of Passion. He has been on our 2012 show string list since he was born. He has what we call a Romney Lincoln Silky fleece. When you touch this fleece, it has the handle and brightness of the finest Royal Silk!

We were going to breed Star of Gold back to Pure Passion this year but decided to bring in some new color and chose instead to breed her to Snowmass Conopa. She is confirmed pregnant.

The fact that we are selling Snowmass Conopa, who is our lead Color producer, in this years Winners’ Circle Sale makes it all the more difficult to let Star of Gold go. THIS IS A PLATINUM PACKAGE!

Histograms Shearing# 1 2

AFD 19.3 19.3

SD 4.1 3.8

CV %>30 CURV 21.4 1.8 39.5 19.5 1.3 45.7

Snowmass Star of Passion

SPIN Fineness 18.5 18.5

Sire: Snowmass Overture

Service Sire: Snowmass Conopa

Snowmass Star of Gold

Snowmass Checkmate

Lot #22 Snowmass Check Mate ARI#: 31139809

CIS#: 1139

Sire: Snowmass Satin King

(Male, Beige) Date of Birth: 10/17/07

Dam: Snowmass Sweet Perfection

Snowmass Check Mate is the perfect accumulation of alpaca genetics, and is an astounding element in the world of advanced alpaca breeding.

As a cria he stood out magnificently among the other young males, and then quickly came to embody the winning strategy of his lineage. We immediately knew that he was our “CHECK MATE” He has taken the best of his Dam and Sire’s genetics to produce a fleece which is simply breathtaking. DENSE, FINE, and BRIGHT with a beautifully deep amplitude of crimp in long staples. He also has a gorgeous head with a solid fine wool cap.

It was no surprise that Check Mate was the primary excitement of our show string during the 2008 U.S. Futurity when he took multiple Championship titles. He also took 1st place as a yearling in both the Futurity 2009 and Nationals 2009, as well as a blue ribbon in the 2009 Nationals fleece show.

Check Mate bred his first females in the Fall of 2010 and has his first cria on the ground, which are stunning.

He has been working for us this 2011 season as well and we are very excited for his next year’s cria!

He is TRULY a well proven STUD of EXCELLENCE for both WHITE and COLOR breeding programs.

Histograms Shearing# 1 3

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 15.8 2.6 16.3 0.1 57.0 14.8 21.1 3.4 16.1 1.7 49.2 19.7

Lot #23 TGF Ambrosi ARI#: NA

(Female, White)

CIS#: NA

Sire: Snowmass Best Man

Date of Birth: 10/20/10 Dam: Snowmass Ambrosian Dream

The Skinners have asked us to put some of our best into the sale this year, so have a look at Ambrosi. At just over a year old at the time of this writing, we are really pleased with her growth and development thus far. She is well grown and conformationally correct.

Ambrosi is out of Snowmass Best Man and Snowmass Ambrosian Dream.

Best Man (also offered at this sale) is known for his unique, silky-fleece style exhibiting extreme brightness, lingering fineness and long, soft staples.

Ambrosi’s dam is a dark fawn hailing from Snowmass XXXtreme and two Peruvian powerhouses – 5Peruvian Chaccu and 6Peruvian Cambria. Her fleece is very fine and dense with a high frequency vicuña/merino style character. We love this fleece – royal baby fineness, high frequency, high curvature character style, soft, well-nourished handle and signature Best Man brightness.

The sum of these positive traits equals a truly elite fleece.

Because of her age and our show schedule, we’ve only been able to take Ambrosi to one show in 2011. She has great show potential and we will miss her in our 2012 Spring lineup.

Histogram 2011:

16.5, 3.9, 23.8, 0.6%, 2.7%, SF-16.5, curv-46.5 2011 Empire Alpaca Extravaganza- 2nd Place, Halter

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Lot #24 Snowmass Silky Celebration (Female, Dark Fawn) & Snowmass Silky River ARI#: 31526142

CIS#: 3599

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

Date of Birth: 10/14/08 Dam: Snowmass Silky Sunshine

Snowmass Silky Celebration is a favorite Snowmass Royal Challenger daughter from lead Dam Snowmass Silky Sunshine. Snowmass Silky Sunshine is a Royal Quechua daughter who we sold at our MOC 2011 Auction purchased by Magical Farms as one of the well-deserved, higher-selling females in the sale.

We kept Silky Celebration in her stead as a replacement which now makes the choice to offer her a very hard one.

She is a blend of the best white and best fawn of our entire breeding program and she is GORGEOUS and why she must be presented for this special sale.

We have bred her to Snowmass Best Man for a line breeding that is kept secretly held within our breeding program. It is a magic one and sure for the brightest finest long stapled fleece you could ever dream of.

We are letting her go with her son, Snowmass Silky River, who would be on your show string list for 2012.

He is a Messiah’s Moon River cria that we absolutely LOVE. He has what we describe as a Corriedale - Romney - Lincoln - Silky style fleece that is developing beautifully, as you can see from the photos.

This is a pair that is not easily let go of and certainly worth fighting for.

Histogram Shearing# 2 Snowmass Silky River

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 15.6 3.8 24.3 0.6 56.0 15.6

Merino Grade (high fashion knit wear) The staple length after first year averages 3 to 5 inches with high frequency of crimp, medium amplitude and fiber falls into small staples or bundles. Fleece has stronger secondary fiber development at birth but continues to develop through first year. These fleece types are the most dramatic with very defined bold crimp.

Lot #25 Snowmass J’Nae’s Matrix Lace ARI#: 31779258 Sire: Snowmass Matrix

CIS#: 4125

(Female, White)

Date of Birth: 6/28/10 Dam: WRA J’Nae

Snowmass J’Nae’s Matrix Lace is a Matrix daughter with one of the prettiest, brightest, most glorious Silky Merino-Corriedale fleeces you have ever seen, thus her name Matrix Lace.

Matrix Lace has an AFD of 16.4 and Spin Fineness of 15.8. A true ROYAL. Snowmass Matrix Lace is confirmed bred to one of our foundation Bright white Merino fleeced Studs Snowmass Victory Valor. His cria combined with Quechua lineage are some of our leading white cria yet.

The simple fact is that you can NEVER have enough of Snowmass Matrix genetics and because we no longer have him in our breeding program these will be the last we sell.

A true sacrifice of excellence for WINNERS CIRCLE SALE 2012

Histogram

Shearing# AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 1 16.4 3.3 20.0 0.6 53.0 15.8

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Lot #26 Snowmass Matrix Myst XX (Female, Medium Silver Grey) & Snowmass Matrix Messiah ARI#: 31349888 Sire: Snowmass Matrix

CIS#: 1325

Date of Birth: 7/16/08 Dam: Snowmass Blueberry Mist

Snowmass Matrix Myst is one of the finest grey females to ever grace the Snowmass Breeding herd.

She is a delight to see among the others in the pasture. Picture perfect with the prowess of her sire Snowmass Matrix, and the grace of her gorgeous Dam. Her first cria at side, SNOWMASS MATRIX MESSIAH, is the most striking of the Beige fleeces born this year. We were hoping he would be a grey, but when we opened his fleece all disappointment vanished into our simultaneous WOW!!!

Matrix Messiah’s Sire is a gorgeous fleeced Messiah son with strong white genetics so looking back it’s not a surprise he pulled lighter color from Matrix Myst.

This year we bred Matrix Myst XX to our Bay Black Champion and Conopa son, Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy XXX. She is well on her way with this pregnancy to bring a XXX-XXX-citing cria for 2012.

This is a pair that will turn heads and bring an exciting future for any alpaca breeding program!

Histograms Shearing# 2 3

Service Sire: Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy XXX

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 16.3 3.9 24.1 0.6 48.0 16.3 18.9 4.8 25.2 1.5 38.4 19.1

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Royal Alpaca – Some Leading Alpaca Garment Producers and Sellers Comment on Royal Alpaca

Grupo Inca, Alpaca III collection KUNA [Royal alpaca] is the most demanding selection of the best alpaca fiber from both [suri and huacaya] made by expert hands of craftsmen who master ancient secrets, which allow them to choose the finest, softest and warmest fiber, also covers the whole color range offered by this marvelous fiber. All of which makes it possible for the garments made with this input to flaunt an unmistakable elegance and personality.

Mitos, (A Myth comes true) An alpaca sweater . . . pure luxury . . . connects the reality to the hopes and wishes of our dreams, with our comprehension of superior clothing and world finest garments.

Royal and Baby Alpaca combine the softness of cashmere with the warmth of sheep wool.

Natural, Pure . . . Softness. The finest and most precious fibres on earth. Imagine a natural garment as soft as cashmere and luminous in appearance. Ultra-lightweight which maintain their new appearance for a long time. A garment with unique thermal qualities that provide perfect protection in summer as well as in winter.

We found these fibres in South America. Our collection ranges from Vicuña, world’s finest fibre to Alpaca.

Peruvian Connection Peruvian Alpaca: rarer than cashmere, warmer than wool. From high in the Peruvian Andes comes one of the finest and most luxurious fibers in the world. Peruvian alpaca—once reserved for Inca royalty—is silky against the skin, velvety smooth to the touch. Alpaca’s unique hollow core gives it an insulating softness that is extremely lightweight yet much warmer and stronger than wool. In addition, alpaca is hypo allergenic—often wearable for those people who are allergic to wool. Cousin to the llama, alpacas graze at elevations of 10,000 to 14,000 feet on the harsh steppes of the Peruvian Andes. Their thick, sumptuous coats grow naturally in over 40 shades—from ivory to black, with all the grays and browns in between—and the fleece dyes to glorious color as well. These noble creatures are tended by native Andean herdsmen, who shear them every other year at the on set of the rainy season. The yield is about eight pounds of fleece per animal.

The first clip of the shearling alpaca, called baby alpaca, provides a featherweight, heavenly soft fiber that is even more prized.

Lot #27 Snowmass Incan Petals ARI#: 32801958

CIS#: 4153

Sire: Snowmass Royal Bronze

(Female, Brown Roan) Date of Birth: 8/20/11

Dam: Snowmass Incan Myst

Snowmass Incan Petals... My OH My...(Perfect name for her).

This radiant young female has a very distinct Vicuña style fleece. She is a dark-rose indefinite-roan color with great potential to produce solid black and or roan grey offspring – depending on who you breed her to.

She comes with a breeding – as do ALL open females sold in the Winners’ Circle sale – after she has finished her showing and comes of breeding age.

Incan Petals has a remarkable line of some of the grandest alpacas in her pedigree. Her Sire is no other than Snowmass Royal Bronze.(Now owned by ConnoQuin Alpacas).

Her Dam, Incan Myst, is a drop-dead-gorgeous Dark Brown to Bay Black in color.

Incan Petals is a precious package for any color breeding program and she will be a delight for you to show in 2012.

Lot #28 Snowmass Tupelo Honey ARI#: 31526456

CIS#: 3829

Sire: Snowmass Matrix

(Female, Brown Roan)

Date of Birth: 6/12/09 Dam: Snowmass Fineness Matters

Snowmass Tupelo Honey is an absolutely astounding young Roan-Grey Color Fleece Champion.

Her Dam, Snowmass Fineness Matters is one of our finest Bay Black females.(please see her pedigree).

Tupelo Honey’s sire is no other than Snowmass Matrix who is owned by Ernie & Barbara Kellogg of Double O Good alpacas. He is now gone from Snowmass and so we are very VERY tight about selling any of our Matrix offspring – especially these rare Greys. We have 2 Matrix Greys in our sale and I can tell you that they are nearly invaluable in the Alpaca world. It is not lightly that we let them go.

We have said that we are getting out of Greys but when you have ones like these you just cant help but want to change your mind! They are the kind of Grey we continue to breed for!!

This is a RARE opportunity to own a Matrix Grey female, who is also bred to Snowmass Conopa for a 2012 cria.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 19.6 4.6 23.4 2.8 38.0 19.4 19.9 4.5 22.6 2.7 40.0 19.6

Brother: Snowmass Enlightened

Lot #29 Snowmass Golden Majesty ARI#: 32124811

CIS#: 3914

Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty

(Female, Dark Rose Grey)

Date of Birth: 8/23/10 Dam: Snowmass Golden Heart

Yes, she is majestic!

Golden Majesty has already claimed 2 1st placings and a Championship in her show debuts.(IAO and Futurity).

Her fleece is a novelty for Greys with an AFD of 17.6, CV of 19.4, and Spin fineness of 16.9!

Sister to our Rose Grey Champion, Snowmass Enlightened.

Her Sire is Reserve Color Herd Sire of the Year and Multi-Champion Fawn Stud, Snowmass Matrix Majesty. (Brother to Snowmass Conopa).

This is a proven show line female with fiber stats and records that prove her excellence. One look at her however, and those records are hardly necessary.

Rose Grey female with tremendous potential, and ready for the WINNER’S CIRCLE now!

Fiber and Fleece Description CONSISTENCY GRADE A FINENESS GRADE A FOR A GREY THE FIBER DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER COLOR DARK ROSE GREY

Histogram Shearing# 1

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 17.6 3.4 19.4 0.6 47.6 16.9

Dam: Snowmass Golden Heart

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Lot #30 Snowmass Royal Trademark ARI#: 30701250

CIS#: 1550

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

(Male, Dark Fawn)

Date of Birth: 9/19/06 Dam: Snowmass Love N Perfection

His Dam, Love N Perfection, is a rare direct daughter of Snowmass Maree Love, and his sire is Snowmass ROYAL Challenger.

Royal Trademark’s genetics will undoubtedly create superior quality fawns and colors.

Trademark is a name we’ve saved for a male that could embody our ideals as breeders. This guy is the one. We have been hiding him in so called “padded stalls” to ensure his health and vigor until he begins sowing his seed. With the loss of Maree Love he became that much more important to us no matter how few unrelated females we had to breed to him.

The fact remains he is too closely related to our best breeding females.

We’ve thought about leasing him, too risky. We have also considered opening up outside breedings, however as a larger operation we are limited with space, and are very guarded knowing the risks that comes with bringing in outside animals.

So.... Long story short, we added this AMAZING MALE to the Winner’s Circle Sale 2012.

Snowmass Royal Trademark will bring ROYAL fleece and overall Alpaca Excellence to your breeding program, just as he and his genetic lines have done for us.

Fiber and Fleece Description Royal Trademark has a more Silky fleece with intense brightness and well bundled silky staples which express a deep rolling crimp. He also has very thick rolling skin much as we see in our Silky fleeces (Snowmass Best Man).

His fiber is even in length and kind over his entire body another trait we see with our Silky style fleeces.

Histograms Shearing# 2 3 4 5

AFD 19.0 19.6 20.2 20.2

SD 4.2 4.4 3.8 3.9

CV %>30 22.2 1.7 22.4 1.9 18.8 1.5 19.5 1.8

CURV SPIN Fineness 38.6 18.7 40.4 19.0 45.0 19.3 44.0 19.4

Sumptuous Fiber – Extraordinary Rewards!

As fineness and quality of wool increases worldwide, prices for the most elite raw materials are increasing exponentially. These days, bales of the finest wools are commanding unheard of prices that seem to increase parallel to fineness.

This quest for the best is creating very real incentives for breeders in the alpaca industry, who are set to take advantage of world demand. Luxury brands are now seeking out fiber with the intention of procuring the very finest product for specific end-products.

Loro Piana is a classic Italian global luxury brand run by a regal family from Milan. Brothers Pier Luigi and Sergio have continued their father Loro’s almost obsessive search for the world’s best raw materials. In an effort to maintain their reputation as a top producer of high-end fabrics, they go right to the sources: New Zealand and Australia for wool, China and Mongolia for cashmere and Peru for Vicuña.

Loro Piana began buying Vicuña from Peru in 1994 and for a decade had an exclusive contract with the government to buy the animal fleeces, which are used to make $6,000 sweaters and jackets that cost three times as much.

In New Zealand and Australia, Loro Piana has bolstered its reputation as a buyer of the highest quality wool by holding an annual competition to see who can come up with the finest fleece. In Mongolia in 1997 the company set up a subsidiary, the first wholly foreign-owned company in the country, to buy cashmere directly from the herders.

“We check everything to make sure it is pure and of the highest quality,” said Pier Luigi Loro Piana. “There is good wine and bad wine; we buy only the good wine.”

But Loro Piana is not the only company combing the globe for materials – for example, other companies now handle a third of the Vicuña coming to the market – so Loro Piana is constantly working on the next thing.

In Sydney, Australia in 2004, a 90 kilogram bale of merino wool only 11.9 microns thick was sold to winning bidders Kathaytex, a Chinese wool mill, for $670,000. This turned out to be a bargain according to company representative Frank Yao, who had been authorized to pay up to two million for the extremely fine fiber. The wool is destined for high fashion suits and shirts that will sell for around $100,000.

The source of this exceptional fiber is Primerino, the brand known to produce the softest wool in the world. Based in the Waroo Hills of Australia, the company has dedicated itself to worldwide production of superfine wool.

Alpaca breeders should take note of the recent achievements in the sheep world. It is not a difficult leap to make to foresee alpaca bales commanding such prices. The key is quality and intelligent breeding choices.

A Royal Trademark!

Snowmass Alpacas and Quechua Enterprises are partnered together in production of their first bales of Royal Alpaca Fleece. Five Royal white bales have recently arrived in Peru and will be made into an exclusive production of elite textiles with Grupo Inca and Inca Tops SAA. Royal color bales in the U.S.A. are being made into sumptuous blankets and bed spreads like those seen at right.

Pictured: Roberto Fioretto, General Manager of Inca Tops SAA (one of the largest and most recognized Alpaca Top and Yarn manufacturers in the world), looks on as the Snowmass fiber is unloaded sorted in Peru. Inca Tops is the textile company that will process the Snowmass fiber all the way to yarn.

E S I S P R E R T E N

Lot #31 Snowmass Almandine ARI#: 32123685

CIS#: 4149

Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty

(Female, Dark Fawn) Date of Birth: 6/22/11

Dam: Snowmass Fineness Matters

Snowmass Almandine is an uncommon Gem sired by the great Snowmass Matrix Majesty.

She is a unique smokey dark-fawn with roan points, and amazing color consistency.

Her fleece is simply stunning in its density and fineness just like her Sire and Dam, Snowmass Fineness Matters – YES fineness matters indeed!

Almandine is sister to Tupelo Honey who is also offered in this year’s sale.

Tupelo Honey is bred so should go home, but Almandine needs to be taken to the 2012 show rings!

She will most certainly shine in this year’s 2012 show ring, and more importantly she will add another dimension of fineness and excellence to your color breeding program!

Lot #32 Snowmass Matrix Cashmina (Female, Beige) & Snowmass Royal Cashmino ARI#: 30339323 Sire: Snowmass Matrix

CIS#: 3787

Date of Birth: 5/28/09 Dam: Snowmass Cashmina

A MATRIX - ROYAL ENDURANCE -SEVEN BELOW - PACKAGE: Snowmass Matrix Cashmina is a very treasured daughter of prized female Snowmass Cashmina (purchased at 2010 Making of Champions sale by Colorado Alpaca LLC). We reserved Snowmass Matrix Cashmina and her other daughter Snowmass Cashmina Gold to maintain her excellence in our breeding program.

We are running out of direct Snowmass Matrix daughters, which we highly treasure and so are quite reluctant to let this one go. Dedicated to offering our very best this year, we very proudly present Snowmass Matrix Cashmina.

Matrix Cashmina is confirmed bred to our leading Elite white Sub-Zero son Snowmass Seven Below. With this cross, you can expect a cria with one of the brightest, finest fleeces you have ever witnessed.

NOW its not over yet.

We are selling Matrix Cashmina with her male cria at side, SNOWMASS ROYAL CASHMINO, our first Snowmass Royal Endurance son. He is young but already showing incredible qualities seen as best as can be captured from these pictures on the website. Really you must come see him in person, along with the rest of these incredible offspring we are offering this year, to truly APPRECIATE the quality they present, as found in Snowmass Matrix Cashmina and Snowmass Royal Cashmino.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 16.4 3.5 21.2 0.7 51.0 16.0 18.7 3.8 20.5 0.9 49.0 18.1

Service Sire: Snowmass Seven Below

Snowmass Royal Endurance

Lot #33 Accoyocusani’s Legacyena ARI#: 841531

(Female, White)

Date of Birth: 8/4/02

Sire: Snowmass Accoyocusani

Dam: Followill Cotton Jenny

OK, this is going to be painful. When Don and Julie set the standard for this year’s Winners’ Circle Sale, we knew we would have to dig deep and offer some really special alpacas in the sale. So here she is – Accoyocusani’s Legacyena or Legy, for short.

As new breeders, we purchased Legy from Don and Julie at the very first Snowmass Making of Champions Sale. We would like to say that this purchase was based on careful evaluation and thought but the truth is we got lucky...really lucky. At that time we lacked a full appreciation of her powerful and pre-potent ancestors including Legacy, Augusto, 4Peruvian Isabella and Followill Cotton Jenny (still producing for Snowmass) but she has taught us not only the importance of pedigree but instilled in us an understanding of excellence in fleece characteristics such as lingering fineness, density, brightness, handle and character. Legy was described as a rare beauty of grand proportions and that has certainly been the truth as she is without a doubt one of the top five production females in our herd.

Legy has given us five female offspring – all of exceptional quality. Vigorous, strong boned and capacious frames all carrying fleeces with density, staple definition, character, fineness and supreme brightness. This is exactly the kind of production history that one can rely on and trust to produce elite alpaca progeny. We have sold three of Legy’s daughters. I-Star’s Priestess (2008 Futurity White Reserve Color Champion) was sold to Double O Good Alpacas. TGF Trinity was sold to Magical Farms and Legy’s 2009 cria, TGF Elizabeth, was sold to Waypoint Alpacas at the 2010 Snowmass Making of Champions Sale. We retain her other two daughters, Truly Scrumptious who was the first of Legy’s offspring born here at TGF and Leyenda, her 2011 cria out of Snowmass Elite Legend.

Legy is bred back to Elite Legend and confirmed pregnant for what will be an outrageously elite 2012 cria. Any alpaca breeder with their eye on the future of their program and the industry will take a close look at Accoyocusanti’s Legacyena. FMI – Contact Ryen or Ursula Munro @ info@trippinggnomefarm.com or 207.415.9381

Histograms

Shearing# 1 2 3 4 5 6

AFD 17.8 19.3 20.9 24.4 23.4 23.8

SD 3.4 4.3 4.4 5.1 5.5 5.2

CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 19.0 0.6 n/a n/a 22.3 2.0 n/a n/a 21.1 2.0 n/a n/a 20.7 8.7 n/a n/a 23.2 8.0 n/a n/a 21.9 7.6 n/a n/a

Lot #34 Snowmass Infinit Isis ARI#: 30339064

CIS#: 1254

(Female, Beige) Date of Birth: 11/15/06

Dam: Snowmass Quechua’s Isis

Sire: Snowmass Infinity

Snowmass Infinit Isis is one of the few direct Snowmass Infinity and Quechua’s Isis daughters we have ever sold. Her lineage makes a tremendous asset to our breeding program.

Infinit Isis has produced 3 incredible female progeny for us – all being born in May. She is currently bred to Snowmass Best man with a positive ultrasound for another MAY cria! This cria will be her most exciting yet!

We are only selling a small number of select females who are bred to Snowmass Best Man. Don’t miss this fleeting chance!

Histograms

Shearing# AFD SD 1 17.2 3.5 2 17.0 3.6 4 20.8 4.3 5 22.5 4.5

CV %>30 20.2 0.3 19.5 0.2 20.8 3.0 20.0 4.9

CURV SPIN Fineness 39.6 16.7 51.3 16.2 46.9 20.2 45.6 21.7

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Lot #35 Snowmass Golden Serenity (Female, Dark Fawn) & Snowmass Quechuan Serenity ARI#: 822639

CIS#: 1206

Sire: Snowmass CChatanca

Date of Birth: 6/30/00 Dam: 6Peruvian Gold Serenity

Here we offer a very unique “ALPACA GOLD” package.

Snowmass Golden Serenity is one of those truly golden females that has never failed us in production of our finest alpaca stock. She has produced one Golden cria after another, sought after world wide!

She was our lead show female in color in her younger years and stood in the #1 position. Look at her fiber statistics. This says it ALL. She is also a strong bodied, beautifully balanced, awesome LOOKER which she passes on to each and every one of her offspring. Her first, Snowmass Sizlin Hot, is in the United Kingdom as one of the finest Colored Studs.

This year her Futurity Champion son sired by Snowmass Matrix, Snowmass Golden Legend, is in holding for an astute breeder in the United Kingdom, so he will soon be on his way to England, as well.

Golden Serenity is the most solid production female in our herd and is confirmed bred to Snowmass Conopa for the first of this cross ever.

She has a gorgeous female cria at side; SNOWMASS QUECHUAN SERENITY, sired by Snowmass Quechua’s Innovation.

Quechuan Serenity is too shy of being old enough to wean, so we are selling her as a prized addition at side of her Dam, Snowmass Golden Serenity. This young female caught our eye for the 2012 show list at first glance! She has extreme density and development of secondary fibers that are bright like Silk and ROYAL fine over her entire body as are 99% of all our Quechua line offspring. She is as well beautiful in her frame and balance and has that stand out “show me” quality.

The most valuable aspect is her sire, Snowmass Quechua’s Innovation. He is currently on his way to Germany. There will be no more cria by him in the U.S. How do we let this one go... it’s not easy, however makes this a pair HIGHLY worth your consideration for Elite and unique Alpaca genetics to add to your breeding herd.

Histograms

Shearing# 1 3 4 7 8 9

AFD 17.7 17.2 17.0 19.7 19.2 20.7

SD 3.7 3.7 4.2 4.7 4.3 4.5

CV %>30 21.0 0.8 21.5 0.5 24.5 0.9 23.7 0.7 22.5 1.4 21.5 2.7

Snowmass Quechua’s Innovation

Snowmass Quechuan Serenity

CURV SPIN Fineness n/a 17.2 n/a 16.8 61.0 17.1 50.0 19.6 54.0 18.9 49.0 20.3

Service Sire: Snowmass Conopa

Lot #36 Snowmass Winter Dreams (Female, Beige) & Winter Solstice ARI#: 30338661 Sire: Snowmass Infinity

CIS#: 1702

Date of Birth: 10/2/05 Dam: Snowmass Victorian Dream

Snowmass Winter Dreams is one of our few remaining STAR Snowmass Infinity daughters. Her Dam, Snowmass Victorian Dream, sadly passed away a few years ago making Winter Dreams one of the last to carry her genetic lines forward. She is a beautiful and most excellent Dam. She brings enduring love to all her cria and is a delight to work with. We couldn’t ask for more from this delightful Female. She is a true matriarch of our fields.

When you combine her genetics with Snowmass Elite Legend you get EXCELLENCE through and through. This is manifest in her son Snowmass Winter Solstice. We saved this name for a very special cria and when he was born we knew that we had found him.

The added bonus to this tremendous genetic package is that Winter Dreams is confirmed bred to Snowmass Best Man! We are so confident in this genetic combination that we KNOW this cria to be born will be simply AMAZING!

Snowmass Winter Solstice

Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty

Lot #37 Snowmass Kuliana ARI#: 32800333

CIS#: 4156

Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty

(Female, Medium Brown) Date of Birth: 7/7/11

Dam: Snowmass Pua Lani

Snowmass Kuliana is a luxurious young Mahogany Brown female sired by Snowmass Matrix Majesty.

Kuliana’s Dam, Snowmass Pua Lani, is one of our only colored Snowmass Chateau daughters. Chateau is a Snowmass Quechua son.

Pua Lani’s Dam, CHIMA, is the best Black female we have ever purchased. She is from Ruth and Rodney Elvestad’s breeding program. Many know Ruth as an exceptional fleece judge, and it is no coincidence that CHIMA has the most exceptional True Black fleece we have ever seen. All of her cria are exhibiting the same traits with solid consistent color.

Kuliana has strong black lineage which we know is an indicator of her ability to produce black when bred directly to black or other lines with black genetics.

She has an incredible frame that is compact and balanced. Her biggest attraction however, is the brilliant fleece that covers her entire body. It is a perfect example of definition, uniformity, and consistency. She is without question a #1 on our 2012 show list.

This is unique moment for us to give up a beauty like Kuliana!

Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty

Lot #38 Snowmass XXXtremely Secret (Female, Dark Brown) & Snowmass XXXtremely XXX-Travegant ARI#: 30424920

CIS#: 1727

Sire: Snowmass XXXtreme

Date of Birth: 9/29/05 Dam: Snowmass Nova’s Secret

As her name suggests, this alpaca is an extremely important asset of our breeding program.

In her younger days, XXXtremely Secret was our #1 Brown show string female.

She, along with all the alpacas in her pedigree, shined brilliantly in the showring.

The first of her progeny, Snowmass Matrix Midnight, led the way as a Futurity Champion. He has been our #1 producer of fine, dense, bright fleeced, true Black cria to date.

Her second cria, Snowmass Puna Sky, is another incredible stud prospect who took 2nd at the 2010 Futurity and the 2010 International. He is under contract for an England breeding group as a future U.K. stud extraordinaire.

Her 2010 cria, Snowmass Majestic Secret, was also a # 1 show string pick and took a 1st place at Futurity 2011 for Dark Fawn Female. We were so incredibly happy with Majestic Secret we bred XXXtremely Secret straight back to Snowmass Matrix Majesty to produce male cria Snowmass XXX-Travegant.

He easily makes the cut as a 2012 show string male and sells with XXXtremely Secret.

There is a cherry on top...a black cherry...XXXtremely Secret is one of the first and the few Nova Granddaughters to be bred to our TRUE BLACK Matrix son Snowmass BLACK OUT. Bred to Matrix, XXXtremely Secret produced a black, so we are certain that bred to a Black Matrix son she will produce one POWERFUL forward step in Black alpaca excellence. For this reason we are STILL feeling XXXtremely reluctant to sell her.

If you don’t believe it yet, then there’s not much more we can do to convince you that we are NOT HOLDING BACK from selling OUR BEST genetics this year.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3 5 6

AFD 16.2 19.2 18.9 22.2 21.4

SD 3.9 4.5 4.1 4.4 4.3

CV %>30 24.2 1.2 23.4 1.5 21.6 1.5 19.7 4.3 20.2 3.4

Son: Snowmass Matrix Midnight

CURV SPIN Fineness 46.7 16.2 43.5 19.0 45.9 18.2 43.1 21.4 20.7 43.0

Service Sire: Snowmass Blackout

Snowmass XXXtremely XXX-travegant

Sire: Snowmass Nova

Lot #39 Snowmass Silent Night ARI#: 1065466

CIS#: 1588

Sire: Snowmass Nova

Service Sire: Snowmass Blackout (Female, True Black) Date of Birth: 6/28/04

Dam: 6498 6Peruvian Silent Night

SO BLACK and SO BEAUTIFUL...HARD TO FIND....A true Snowmass Nova daughter. A Delightful Duet in BLACK. She has done an EXCELLENT job in her reproduction of ELITE BLACK genetics.

Her Dam 6498 6Peruvian Silent Night was the best True Black import female that we have ever purchased from Peru! Her Sire Snowmass NOVA needs no introduction. He is one of the best Black Studs in the world!

She has produced a great wealth of Dark offspring. Her first daughter, Snowmass Holy Night was a show winner. Holy Night produced a black male, Holy Majesty who took a Blue at the 2011 Futurity. Silent Night’s second cria Silent Whispers, a dark brown, has two Blues in IAO Fleece show 2010 & 2011. Her 3rd daughter, Snowmass Silent Sensation, a Bay Black, has two 2nd placings in Commercial Halter as well as Blue Fleece and Blue Futurity 2011 halter. Her 2010 male cria is being primed as stud for our future Black breeding program.

Snowmass Silent Night is bred to the most exciting BLACK stud in our 2011 Stud line up. SNOWMASS BLACK OUT.... A TRUE BLACK MATRIX SON. This will produce one of the most advanced and exciting black alpacas to date! This is a sacrifice for us as we would really like to have this cria.

Fiber and Fleece Description BRIGHTNESS GRADE A HANDLE GRADE A FINENESS GRADE 1 Through 2 years GRADE 2 Through 4 years

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 4

AFD SD CV %>30 17.9 4.3 24.0 1.3 19.7 3.9 19.8 1.7 23.7 5.1 21.4 9.1

CURV SPIN Fineness 35.5 17.9 35.9 19.0 32.5 23.2

Lot #40 Snowmass Midnight Royalty (Female, True Black) & Matrix Midnight Majesty ARI#: 31139434

CIS#: 1353

Sire: Snowmass Royal Bronze

Date of Birth: 6/19/07

Dam: Snowmass XXXtremely Charismatic

We understand the importance that we offer Fine Black genetics to complement our Matrix Majesty cria. With this pair, you have the best of both.

Snowmass Midnight Royalty is an amazing True Black female sired by Snowmass Royal Bronze. Midnight Royalty has an extremely bright fleece for a black that at 3 years was a Royal Grade with an AFD of 16.4, and at 4 yrs, 18.8, very impressive.

Snowmass Midnight Royalty is bred this year to our #1 Dark Conopa Champion Herdsire, Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy. This will undoubtedly be one of the most exciting dark colored cria for 2012.

Her cria at side is sired by Matrix Majesty and is named Snowmass Matrix Midnight Majesty. He is magnificent to behold!

Matrix Midnight Majesty is a stout, well balanced, beautifully fleeced young male. He looks just like his sire but with black points. He would be one to breed over our blacks as well as our other colors. He is sure to be a phenomenon for advanced color breeding programs.

If you are a breeder of Color, you will benefit exponentially with these lineages in your program.

Snowmass Matrix Midnight Majesty

Lot #41 Snowmass Royal Knight (Male, True Black) ARI#: 30424777

CIS#: 1516

Date of Birth: 10/21/05 Dam: Panam’s Chilean Rose

Sire: Snowmass Royal Bronze

Snowmass Royal Knight is the spitting image of his sire, Snowmass Royal Bronze, only he is a True Black! PERFECT! Like his sire, he has extreme FINE fiber over his entire body. If you can imagine a vicuña with fine black fleece covering its whole body, and having a long staple length, you can envision Snowmass Royal Knight.

His Dam is a COLOR CHAMPION we purchased from Bruce Bar, a dedicated alpaca importer who brought some of the worlds finest alpacas from South America to the U.S. He did not want to sell Panam’s Chilean Rose but with strong conviction and a pocket full of $$ we were able to bring her home. She has produced 2 color Champions for us then one TRUE BLACK gift from ROYAL BRONZE. Snowmass Royal Knight is unrelated to our other black lines so has been the PERFECT BLACK MALE to breed our blacks to. We have a very limited BLACK breeding program with few but highly select black alpacas.

FINENESS is a key element we needed and Royal Knight has proven to be extremely valuable in infusing this into our Elite Black breeding program.

It is only because we have a good number of his progeny, as well as his now close relation to those we keep in our program that offer him for sale at our Winner’s Circle Sale 2012.

His key progeny are now being bred to our Black Matrix offspring and we await the next excellent generation of BLACK. We truly need many more Blacks like Royal Knight in the National Breeding program to ensure the alpaca world can bring black to the same quality in fiber as white.

If you are breeding for BLACK Alpaca... we promise you will never regret bringing this Stud, SNOWMASS ROYAL KNIGHT, into your breeding program!

Fiber and Fleece Description

A vicuña in Black; If you could mutate a vicuña to have a fine fleece over its entire body add staple length and the color black you would have Snowmass Royal Knight. He has a bit of a deeper crimp than a vicuña type but the handle and fineness are right there!

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3

AFD SD CV %>30 17.2 4.2 24.2 1.1 18.8 4.2 22.2 1.7 18.5 4.3 23.0 2.1

Bottom Row: Royal Knight Progeny

CURV SPIN Fineness 34.5 17.2 30.0 18.0 34.7 18.4

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Lot #42 Snowmass Royal Heart ARI#: 30700840

CIS#: 1508

Sire: Snowmass Andean Night

(Female, Medium Brown) Date of Birth: 6/11/06

Dam: Snowmass Royal Lace

Snowmass Royal Heart IS the core of our Royal color breeding production.

She comes from a ROYAL Lineage – Snowmass Royal Lace and Snowmass Andean Night. She brings out the best in both of these superb genetic lines, and was one of the most exciting females ever born to us.

We sent her fleece to AOBA Nationals in 2008 and 2009 where she took a 1st and 2nd respectively. She has had amazing cria during her years with us. Her oldest son, Royal Brave Heart, at 3 yrs old has a histogram of 18.2 3.6 19.7 0.5 Spin Fineness 17.5. He is being looked at as an Elite breeding stud in the United Kingdom.

Her 2010 son, Snowmass Royal Maximus, is my personal favorite fawn male and was at the top of our 2011 show string. We proudly keep him as a future stud for the Snowmass Elite breeding program.

This year Royal Heart is bred to Snowmass Conopa. This combination is guaranteed to rival her best cria! With this ROYAL package you will feel confident you can “beat” the rest.

Histograms Shearing# 1 2 3

AFD SD CV %>30 18.0 4.2 23.1 1.1 19.9 4.0 20.2 2.2 22.9 4.4 19.0 6.1

CURV SPIN Fineness 37.0 17.8 40.0 19.2 39.0 21.9

Lot #43 TGF Pepper ARI#: 32097931

(Female, Medium Fawn)

Date of Birth: 8/20/10

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

Dam: Accoyo America Pali

The power of pedigree, phenotype and personality come together in this maiden female TGF Pepper.

Pepper represents a combination of elite and prepotent genetics. Her Sire is Snowmass Royal Challenger who’s ability to consistently stamp out exceptional offspring never ceases to amaze us. Her dam is Accoyo America Pali, an El Nino daughter. Pali’s record is two for two in producing offspring who have earned Color Championships during their show careers and she is an important member of our production herd.

Pepper is an upright, well grown and conformationally correct young girl whose phenotype just shouts alpaca. If that’s not enough for you, desirable fleece characteristics such as fineness, density, soft hand, consistent character and uniformity unite to make Pepper the true full package.

Pepper should be taken out and shown until she is ready to breed. She sells with a complimentary breeding to any unrestricted TGF Herdsire. We would recommend the exclusive, 2011 Futurity Fawn Male Color Champion Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna.

FMI please contact Ryen and Ursula Munro @ 207.415.9381 or info@ trippinggnomefarm.

Show Results

2011- Color Champion- Fawn Female- Empire Extravaganza Alpaca Show First Place- Fawn Female

Lot #44 Snowmass Tahitian Sunset ARI#: 30338555

CIS#: 1660

(Female, Medium Brown)

Date of Birth: 7/24/05 Dam: Snowmass Nova’s Lua

Sire: Snowmass XXXtreme

Snowmass Tahitian Sunset is a glorious Snowmass XXXtreme daughter and Snowmass Nova’s Granddaughter, who’s color lives up to the stunning phenomenon which is her namesake.I have always loved to see her in the pastures around late afternoon just heading in to dusk – that golden hour which she could call her own. Among the Snowmass XXXtreme daughters she is one who would always stand out in shows to place in the top of any class she was entered in. She is an excellent Dam, and her cria have gone beyond our expectations in every way possible. Each one of her offspring have followed her career in being at the top of their class at show, proving Tahitian Sunset’s XXXtreme excellence.

She is bred to Snowmass Golden Legend and is expected to produce a cria with color to rival her own beauty. It is a shame to let her set over our own horizon, but we know she has many more marvelous moments to come.

Histograms

Shearing# AFD SD 1 19.2 5.0 3 21.6 3.8 5 24.4 4.3 6 25.0 4.3

CV %>30 25.9 3.2 17.6 2.4 16.9 7.0 17.1 8.7

CURV SPIN Fineness 45.0 19.5 44.7 20.1 44.0 23.0 40.3 23.6

Snowmass Royal Challenger

Snowmass XXXtreme

Snowmass Andean Night

Snowmass

Royal Satin

Lot #45 Snowmass Royal Satin ARI#: 31139908

CIS#: 1542

Sire: Snowmass Satin King

(Male, Light Brown)

Date of Birth: 9/14/07 Dam: Snowmass Royal Lace

CHECK THIS MALE OUT. They don’t get any better looking than this.

He has a perfect balance of Fleece and Frame.

His Dam, Snowmass Royal Lace, is a highly decorated halter and fleece champion. His Sire, Snowmass Satin King, is also a highly decorated show champion in halter and fleece. They are both as perfect in Fleece and Frame as their son Royal Satin.

Like many of our finest chosen young studs, he was held for our breeding program despite the fact that we only have a couple unrelated females to breed him to.

He first started breeding Fall of 2010. His first two cria, both females, are carrying fleeces that are absolutely divine. They are extremely fine with beautiful brightness, and are very dense. They are compact in frame and have incredible coverage. Also they have Royal Satin’s same gorgeous head.

If he wasn’t so highly related to most of our breeding females we would not be letting him go.

Snowmass Royal Satin is among the BEST of our BEST and we are very proud to present him for sale. We will follow his career in his new breeding home very closely.

Histogram Shearing# 1

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 15.9 4.6 26.1 1.9 n/a 44.9

Below: Royal Satin Progeny Snowmass Rosa Rose

Snowmass Blue Dahlia

Lot #46 Snowmass Sizlin Secret (Female, Light Fawn) & Snowmass Love N Legacy ARI#: 31525688

CIS#: 1610

Sire: Snowmass Matrix

Date of Birth: 6/12/08 Dam: Snowmass Sizlin Sunshine

Snowmass Sizlin Secret will no longer be our secret as we offer her for sale at this years Winners’ Circle Sale. She is sired by Snowmass Matrix, and was kept on the farm to replace her Dam Snowmass Sizlin Sunshine.

She was a show string female in 2009 and placed 3rd in a group of 14 at the Futurity. The judges said that she was the “finest fleeced in the class.” Take a look at her histogram if you don’t believe it.

Last year we bred Sizlin Secret to Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy XXX and she produced a dazzling Light Brown female named Snowmass Love N Legacy.

She is too young to sell in her own lot so she is selling at the side of her Dam Snowmass Sizlin Secret! She will be a show string phenom for 2012.

We are most definitely revealing a secret with this Sizlin’ Matrix daughter and her own daughter Love N Legacy. This is a scorching show string package!

Histograms

Shearing# AFD SD CV %>30 1 16.4 3.2 19.5 0.4 2 16.6 3.5 21.1 0.5 3 17.7 3.2 18.3 0.4

CURV SPIN Fineness 51.3 15.8 60.6 15.8 56.4 16.9 Service Sire: Snowmass Conopa

Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy

Snowmass Matrix

Lot #47 Snowmass Matrix Shezaquipa ARI#: 31525718 Sire: Snowmass Matrix

CIS#: 1335

(Female, Beige)

Date of Birth: 7/8/08 Dam: Snowmass Kachina

Snowmass Matrix Shezaquipa... She’s a Keeper! Regardless we are offering her for sale!

Her Dam, Snowmass Kachina, is a Nova daughter from an all time treasured Dam, Snowmass Chaccu Kachina. There is a glorious combination of color and white genetics in this female’s lineage.

It’s hard to find an Elite stud in our herd that is not related to her. We have decided to breed her to Snowmass Check Mate.

His density, fineness, and handsome compact frame complements her own.

It also increases her value by adding another Champion lineage to her legacy.

The cria from this combination will no doubt be one for the record books.

We would rather not sell Shezaquipa, but in order to live up to our intentions for this sale we needed to present our top Matrix lineage. We hope astute breeders will recognize the advanced genetics that will result from her strategic breeding to Snowmass Checkmate, and take note of how much genetic potential she can bring to their breeding program.

We love this girl for so many reasons. She is a pure quality alpaca, and we hope you will think “SHEZ A QUIPA” as well.

Histograms Shearing# 2 3

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 18.4 3.5 18.9 1.4 57.1 17.6 22.2 4.6 20.7 4.4 48.6 21.5

Right: Snowmass Royal Endurance Fleece

Lot #48 Snowmass Passion N Fashion ARI#: 32125252

CIS#: 3920

Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty

(Female, Medium Fawn)

Date of Birth: 9/6/10 Dam: Snowmass Golden Passion

Snowmass Passion N Fashion is a cross between Snowmass Legacy Gold and Snowmass Matrix Majesty.

All you need to do is look at her pedigree to see the genetic excellence she holds from top to bottom.

The only thing we could add to this amazing female is a breeding to our leading Royal Challenger son, Snowmass Royal Endurance – so we did.

Royal Endurance is a precious fawn male just of breeding age. He brings Snowmass Invincible and Royal Challenger genetics together to produce incredibly EYE POPPING fleeces.

With this lot you will have one of the first Royal Endurance cria with this rare genetic cross. We are excited to hear of this cria sweeping its way through future alpaca show rings!

Histogram Shearing# 1

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 18.2 4.0 22.1 1.8 43.0 17.8

Lot #49 Snowmass Maderian Gold ARI#: 30408777

CIS#: 1303

Sire: Snowmass Porteus

(Male, Dark Brown)

Date of Birth: 9/5/07 Dam: Snowmass Andean Sky

CHAMPION BAY BLACK PROVEN STUD FOR WINNER’S CIRCLE SALE Snowmass Maderian Gold.

We have been waiting a long time for a stud like Snowmass Maderian Gold to come along for our darker fleeced breeding program.

Maderian Gold carries exquisite fleece with the fineness, density, and low medulation we expect for Royal fleece production. He is well balanced in frame and true to type in his overall appearance.

His sire is Snowmass Porteus who has tragically died this year making him one of the very few and treasured Porteus lines left.

His Dam is a direct Snowmass Andean Bronze daughter, making her a sister to Snowmass Royal Bronze. She is also halter show Champion in her day and remains a very prized production female for us.

Maderian Gold’s maternal brother Snowmass Andean Silk was 2nd in this year’s 2011 Futurity standing next to the 1st place and Champion as well as judges choice winner, Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna. We plan to use him next year as a breeding stud.

Again, we are left in a dilemma of using Snowmass Maderian Gold as he has a very strong line of related genetics to cover our colored females. We have used him over some of our colored Matrix daughters and have our first cria by him via a Medium Fawn female and they produce a mirror image of Maderian Gold, named Snowmass Victory Dance. He is a beautiful dense extremely fine Brown male. He has little to no medulation just as we hoped would be a genetic trait Maderian Gold would pass on along with Darker Color – that he certainly did.

He will be a tremendous asset to the alpaca world to bring fineness, density and overall excellence for COLOR ALPACA breeding and future generations to come.

Fiber and Fleece Description

EXQUISITE in all respects FINE DENSE CONSISTENT over the entire blanket which continues into the neck and legs, and head... extremely low primary fibers that almost look non-existent over his blanket.

Histograms Shearing# 1 3

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 16.3 4.5 27.5 0.8 45.3 16.9 18.2 4.2 23.3 1.7 44.2 18.0

Sire: Snowmass Poteus

Global breeding programs are beginning to question their ability to produce enough Royal Baby alpaca fiber to satisfy international textile demands. Genetics for the elite alpaca or royal alpaca (those proven to produce highly refined, fine, bright fleece and progeny that bear the same) are in great demand. We have many, years of concentrated and dedicated breeding ahead of us to supply the market demand for bales of Royal alpaca. As a result, we need to become more discerning in our breeding and pay close attention to what is happening in the global market. We must be careful as breeders and judges to not limit our focus on breeding for a particular style of crimp or curvature based on sheep industry models. In this way, we can maintain some of the best properties that make alpaca elite; fineness, brightness, soft handle, added staple length, and extreme versatility in milling processes.

Lot #50 Snowmass Majestic Shadow (Female, Medium Brown) ARI#: 32123715

CIS#: 4164

Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty

Date of Birth: 6/3/11 Dam: Snowmass Nova’s Silk Shadow

Snowmass Majestic Shadow is of a unique genetic combination that has been exclusive to Snowmass and Cas-Cad-Nac farms – an alchemy of Snowmass Nova and Snowmass Matrix Majesty genetics.

The first few born of this lineage brought Snowmass Matrix Majesty the title of Reserve Color Herdsire 2011.

Snowmass Majestic Shadow’s Dam, Snowmass Nova’s Silk Shadow, is a true black Nova Daughter. This makes Majestic Shadow a prime female to breed with black and produce TRUE BLACK offspring.

From our own experience, bay browns, like Majestic Shadow, produce true blacks more frequently than any other color. Aside from her black potential, Majestic Shadow has the possibility to produce sensational browns that have brightness and softness like her own fleece. As you will see for yourself she has amazing fleece traits with incredible consistency across her entire body.

She is ready to rock the 2012 show circuit and then when ready, bred with Snowmass breeding for a long prosperous future in ELITE ALPACA production.

Lot #51 Snowmass Legends Passion (Female, Medium Fawn) ARI#: 32123746

CIS#: 4158

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

Date of Birth: 6/4/11 Dam: Snowmass Love N Passion

Snowmass Legends Passion is a ravishing young show ready female. You can see this in her picture, but just wait until you open her fleece! Gloriously BRIGHT with well-defined crimp that travels over her entire fleece. She has elegant round vicuna eyes that shine with her perceptive spirit. She is indeed a beautiful sight to behold.

All in this girl’s lineage have placed in the top at show. Starting of course with her sire – Herdsire of the Year 2011 Snowmass Elite Legend. Her dam, Love N Passion, is a Matrix Royal Rose cross which makes a line on Quechua. This combination is unfolding to be a genetic move we are proud to have made, and will continue to make.

Legends Passion is a female we would be keeping for showing in 2012. My heart aches to let her go, but I am more than excited to hear about the results she brings for her new owner.

Snowmass Elite Legend

Lot #52 Snowmass Olympia’s Oasis (Female, Dark Fawn) ARI#: 32800647

CIS#: 4166

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

Date of Birth: 6/21/11 Dam: Snowmass Olympia

Snowmass Olympia’s Oasis is a STUNNING young Show Female for 2012.

She has a beautiful bright fawn fleece the likes of which could only be expected from her Dam, Snowmass Olympia. It has one of those ROYAL fleeces you can never have enough of.

She is the first – and likely the last – female cria from Olympia. Olympia is 13 years old and has had jaw infections from a seed head – which we have treated, but it has a poor prognosis. We therefore cannot stress enough Olympia’s Oasis’s value.

Olympia herself has a histogram that reads 19.9 3.6 19.1 1.6 Spin Fineness of 18.2 Curve 48.3 at 13 years old! She went from 16 microns to 18 through her entire life. Her offspring are showing the same remarkable endurance!

Olympia’s Oasis is a one and only beauty. She will be a refreshing change in the show ring, and will pass on her rare genetics exclusively.

NEWS FLASH.... We have just completed all DNA testing. We had bred her Dam to Conopa and then moved her and her 2010 cria to a cover pasture with Elite Legend. The dates of birth indicated Conopa as sire and the color of Oasis being a beautiful solid fawn reflected Conopa’s Cria, so assumed she was a Conopa daughter. Thank goodness for DNA. The fleece excellence of Oasis regardless of sire is a given as are all of her Dam’s progeny. However the icing is in having the SUPREME CHAMPION, double HERD SIRE OF THE YEAR Snowmass Elite Legend as her DNA identified Sire, making her ONE in a MILLION and she is absolutely stunning!

Lot #53 Snowmass Inca Quipa (Female, Dark Fawn) & Snowmass Incan Matrix ARI#: 31541374

CIS#: 1237

Sire: Snowmass Artic Blue

Date of Birth: 7/1/08 Dam: Snowmass Bellisima

Snowmass Inca Quipa is a view into the ancestry of the Royal Alpaca as true a Vicuña Type if there ever was one.

Look at her elegant face with dark almond vicuna eyes and you will fall in love as we have. You have the ultimate in fineness and high Curve which is the signature of vicuña in alpaca alongside extreme density. Inca Quipa’s first cria is a vision of excellence sired by Snowmass Challenger. Her production has been solid and 100%.

Her cria presently at side is MAGNIFICENT and you will agree when you open his fleece. He is one of the few first sons from Champion Snowmass Matrix Majesty and would be on our 2012 show list, and now on yours if you are the lucky winning bidder.

In this lot lies the ability to take our best genetics home via this royal alpaca/ vicuña Snowmass Incan Matrix and be one of the only breeders to have a female pregnant to the most decorated Male of 2011 Futurity Champion and Judges choice stud Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna who we now proudly coown with Ryen & Ursula Munro of Tripping Gnome Farm.

You will be proud to show Snowmass Incan Matrix as well as her cria to come from Conopa’s Kahuna in 2012.

Snowmass Incan Matrix

Histograms Shearing# 1 2

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 19.7 4.7 23.9 3.5 38.6 19.7 19.3 4.7 24.3 2.9 51.6 19.3

Snowmass Incan Matrix

Service Sire: Snowmass Canopa’s Kahuna

Sire: Snowmass Artic Blue

What Makes An Elite Alpaca?

The key questions we have been asking ourselves are: What are the differences in our alpacas compared to those bred in Ancient South America, and just what defines an elite alpaca today? The main incentive for all alpaca breeders is that vicu単a wool still sells for $400 to $600 per kilogram, which is 20 to 30 times the price of alpaca wool.

The diversities found in modern alpacas are the result of long term cross-breeding. The wide range of fiber qualities that exist within modern alpaca herds make it very difficult to compile large lots of under 20 micron handling fiber for specialized commercial production.

The differences within fiber types are not just in fineness but other fiber characteristics as well; crimp, architecture of the crimp, scale height on the fiber itself (which creates variable degrees of luster and hand), fiber length, degree of wool fibers (produced by secondary follicles) to more protective medulated fibers (produced by primary follicles), and concentration of these fibers within the fleeces themselves are also factors.

Lot #54 TGF Lynnea (Female, Medium Fawn) ARI#: 32097900

Date of Birth: 7/18/10

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

Dam: Snowmass Lilly of the Valley

Have a look at TGF Lynnea. Phenotypically she is a true-to-type young maiden if there ever was one. She has a compact, well-proportioned frame.

Her medium fawn fleece is remarkable in uniformity of micron, character and color and exhibits a super soft handle. But rest assured, there is a genetic powerhouse lurking underneath her sweet and pretty exterior.

Her sire, Snowmass Royal Challenger, has proven himself by producing an extraordinary consistency of fineness, color and extensive fine wool coverage from head to toe on his progeny. His lineage is unique being a direct son of SM Royal Rose and one of the finest Peruvian Allianza import females, 4687 PPPeruvian Edelweis. Lynnea’s Grand-dam is Peruvian Accoyalianza who at the age of 13, is one of the leading Accoyo/alianza females still producing at Snowmass. The vigor and longevity are attributes inherited and passed on through this maternal line beginning with PPPeruvian Lilly, one of the first Accoyo females selected by the Haldanes for import into the US. Lynnea’s dam, Lilly of the Valley adds a dimension of greatness to her offspring with any male she has been matched with. Some examples are: Snowmass Highlander (Lilly of the Valley X SM Quechua) is one of the best Quechua sons and is a most prized Herd Sire currently at Snowmass Alpacas. Midnight Serenade (Lilly of the Valley X SM Overture), a multiple Color Champion female born here at Tripping Gnome and now owned by Flying Pony Alpacas. SM Quechua’s Rising Son (full brother to Highlander), now standing stud in New Zealand and has won National Champion Award there two years in a row.

Having said all that, we really couldn’t overestimate the contributions that these two alpacas, Royal Challenger and Lilly of the Valley have made to our breeding program.

When she is ready, Lynnea can be bred to any unrestricted TGF Herd Sire.

FMI contact Ryen or Ursula Munro @ Tripping Gnome Farm. 207.415.9381 or info@trippinggnomefarm.com

Lot #55 Snowmass Pirouette (Female, White) ARI#: 32349887

CIS#: 4168

Sire: Snowmass Best Man

Date of Birth: 7/3/11 Dam: Snowmass Brianna

Snowmass Pirouette is an enchanting white maiden sired by Best Man. Pirouette is full sister to Snowmass Illuminati who we sold during our 2011 sale to Rob & Joanna Stephens – their breeding program is among the most selective for Elite fiber traits.

We loved Illuminati so much that we had to continue breeding her Dam Brianna to her Sire Best Man. We knew they could continue to produce amazing progeny. We had a son from them last year who we are keeping, then we had Pirouette this year, and they are bred again for next year! Pirouette is a perfect young candidate for the 2012 show circuit. She caught our eye as a show string prospect the day she was born.

Brightness is absolutely booming in her genetics. It is an element proven in every one of Brianna & Best Man’s progeny. If we keep up with producing these types of fleeces we will soon have a bale of fiber worth it’s weight in Gold!

Pirouette is a worthwhile investment for your show string and for the genetic future of your herd.

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

Sire: Snowmass Royal Challenger

Lot #56 Snowmass Grace in Lace (Female, White) ARI#: 31778824

CIS#: 3740

Sire: Snowmass Magnus Maximus

Date of Birth: 9/16/09 Dam: Bliss’ Amazing Grace

Snowmass Grace in Lace is one of our first Snowmass Magnus Maximus daughters offered for sale.

Sire: Snowmass Magnus Maximus

Snowmass Magnus Maximus is a revered Quechua son who stood next to Snowmass Elite Legend as Reserve Champion at the International show in 2010. His other showings were at AOBA Nationals 2008 where he took a 1st place and Reserve Champion. His Dam is Snowmass Accoyalianza – our leading Accoyo Hemingway daughter who at 13 years of age continues to produce exceptional cria. His fleece has brightness, fineness, consistency, and a merino silky character. His 1st year AFD was 14.7 and this year at 5 yrs old 19.0 with 2.4>30 and curv 52.9. He still is maintaining character/fineness that rivals younger show males.

Grace In Lace’s Dam, Bliss’ Amazing Grace, is from a Legacy X Caligula line crossed with one of our original Sollocata import dams, Ppperuvian Purity 5044.

Service Sire: Snowmass Standing Ovation

Service Sire: Snowmass Standing Ovation

So Grace in Lace is quite unique... she has a strong frame and lovely bright fleece. Because of her wonderful confirmation and fleece she was one of a select few chosen for sale in 2012. She herself would be on our show string for 2012 but she is securely pregnant. She was bred to Snowmass Standing Ovation who himself comes from our top beige male Champion, Snowmass Overture.

Grace in Lace will be sure to produce winner’s circle progeny!

Histogram

Shearing# AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 2011 19.3 4.2 22.0 1.2 47.7 19.0

Lot #57 Snowmass Sadee’s Legend (Female, Beige) ARI#: 32350005

CIS#: 4171

Date of Birth: 6/2/11

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend Snowmass Sadee’s Legend is an extraordinary Snowmass Elite Legend daughter.

She is one of the few which will be old enough to sell in our 2012 sale and also be eligible for the show ring.

She is showing sublime brightness, long defined staples, and excellent consistency over her entire body.

She is a prime show prospect with an excellent potential to produce Elite cria.

There’s hardly more to ask for.

Dam: WRA Sadee

Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

Lot #58 Snowmass Andean Mist (Female, White) & Snowmass Andean Prophecy ARI#: 31349970

CIS#: 3754

Sire: Snowmass Overture

Date of Birth: 4/26/09 Dam: Snowmass Accoyo Mist

Snowmass Andean Mist is an example of a purely ELITE ROYAL WHITE lineage. Review this female’s pedigree and see for yourself that she is the treasure of 5 ELITE generations.

She is daughter to Snowmass Overture who is 3/4 brother to Snowmass Elite Legend. Both are Quechua sons with the Maternal lineage of Snowmass Andean Song.

Snowmass Andean Mist was bred to Royal Prophecy – a Snowmass Trilogy and Satin Queen progeny. The result is an absolutely sublime young male cria named Snowmass ANDEAN PROPHECY. He will sell at Andean Mist’s side!

The pedigree of this young male is stacked with incredible lineage.

You won’t find pedigrees this powerful anywhere else in the world!

Andean Mist is also bred to one of our newest and most promising Elite White studs Snowmass Elite Endurance. Don’t miss this INCOMPARABLE package!

Histogram

Shearing# AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 1 17.6 3.1 17.5 0.5 48.4 16.5

Sire: Snowmass Overture

Snowmass Andean Prophecy Service Sire: Snowmass Elite Endurance

Service Sire: Snowmass Elite Endurance

Lot #59 Snowmass Quechuan Song (Female, White) ARI#: 31349789

CIS#: 1435

Sire: Snowmass Overture

Date of Birth: 9/1/08

Dam: Snowmass Alpine Dream

I really don’t want to sell Snowmass Quechuan Song. The name really says a great deal.

She has a gorgeous fleece and frame along with a truly lovely soul.

This sounds strange but we all know as breeders that there are those few special alpacas that just have an air of intelligence and understanding about them above the rest. Snowmass Quechuan Song is one of them. This makes it very hard to let her leave the herd.

Her lineage is strong with the best of our Elite breeding program. She is very related to most of our white breeding studs as she has a little bit of everyone in her pedigree making her a genuine treasure.

Her first born Snowmass Andean Song Writer is one we would be showing this year and is truly incredible. 1st year AFD 17.4 – see his picture on her website page.

This year we wanted to bring in some color so we bred her to Snowmass Conopa. You will have a Royal Star from this pair guaranteed. You will also be delighted with this female. She has a gorgeous fleece and is a delight in every way. She sings Quechua’s song in her lineage as does her Dam. Snowmass Alpine Dream is a very prestigious producer in our breeding program.

Lot #60 TGF Augustana (Female, Light Fawn) & Augusta

Please look carefully at her pedigree as it rings with richness....You will also fall in LOVE with her!

This is a four-in-one package.

Histogram

Shearing# AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 1 18.2 3.7 20.3 0.8 41.0 17.6 2 18.8 3.7 19.5 0.8 46.0 18.1 3 20.5 4.0 19.4 1.8 50.0 19.7

ARI#: 823428

Date of Birth: 8/1/01

Sire: Rensselaer

Dam: Miss Ruby Red

First, there is TGF Augustana – a beautiful, young female sired by the All American Futurity Light Herdsire of the Year, Snowmass Elite Legend. She represents a new genetic cross and we love how she has been developing.

She is well grown and her fleece is showing beautiful character, uniform staple formation and a high level of brightness.

Second, Augustana sells with a breeding to any unrestricted TGF Herdsire when she is ready and we can think of many great options from which to choose (Snowmass Sub Zero, Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna, TGF Tribute for starters) to help you continue moving forward in this industry.

Third, Augustana sells with her dam, Augusta. Augusta is a phenomenal production grand dam. She breeds easily, births easily, produces ample milk and is a caring, protective mother. Augusta has a very fine light fawn fleece with a high amplitude, high frequency (merino/vicuña type) style of fleece and she has maintained impressive fineness and handle as she has matured. Her micron was 21.9 at 10 years old! Augusta’s sire is the very well known Rensselaer. He is the perfect cross of Accoyo and Allianza genetics. He carries an elite fleece with the ultra-fineness and extreme density associated with these crosses.

And finally, Augusta is rebred back to Snowmass Elite Legend and confirmed pregnant for a 2012 cria.

TGF AUGUSTANA ARI: 32245714 DOB: 7/29/12 Dam: Spa Alpacas Augusta

Sex: Female Color: Beige Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend

FMI contact Ryen or Ursula Munro @ 207.415.9381 or info@ trippinggnomefarm.com

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Silky Grade – (high fashion draperywoven wear and bright fine knit) DRAPE, STRENGTH & COMFORT Royal & Baby 16-23 micron Curvatures 30-50’s The staple length after 1st year averages 4 to 7 inches.

Low frequency of crimp medium to deep amplitude fiber grows into defined staples with secondary fibers almost fully developed at birth. Very long staples at birth and have the longest first year staple growth of up to 8.5 inches.

The distinguishing value of the silky is low scale, very soft slippery feel, and accentuated brightness.

Lot #61 Snowmass Heavenly Star XX (Female, White) ARI#: 32124439

CIS#: 4007

Sire: Snowmass Satin King

Date of Birth: 9/8/10

Dam: Snowmass Soliloquy

Snowmass Heavenly Star is a young maiden with a fleece from Heaven. Bright, extremely fine and handles like the finest silk.

She has beautiful density and Merino Vicuña characteristics just as her histogram reflects.

We were not intending to sell her and coming on the end of our breeding season and having her be over a year old decided to expose her to one of our favorite Elite white breeding studs, Snowmass Elite Endurance.

She was bred however too early to detect pregnancy as we write this. We will ultrasound her again before the sale.

Snowmass Heavenly Star represents the beauty in the best of a long history of breeding for true everlasting glorious fine bright dense ALPACA fleece. Have a look at her pedigree, it is truly HEAVENLY!

Histogram Shearing# 1

AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 17.5 3.4 19.5 0.5 52.0 16.8

This fleece has the most dramatic difference of the other Royal grades. This fleece has a very unique silky handle thus the name. It also is extremely bright to the eye (low-scale.) This fleece type is very exciting to look at and can vary in depth of amplitude, curvature and visible crimp. The main attributes are the length of staple and the consistency of length over the entire fleece and extremities of the alpaca such as the neck and legs.

Snowmass Reference Sires – Quechua Enterprises Snowmass Quechua (Deceased)

Snowmass Quechua’s Highlander

Snowmass Quechua’s Salvation

Snowmass Quechua’s Rising Son (Standing in New Zealand)

Snowmass Reference Sires – Quechua Enterprises Snowmass Best Man (Lot #7)

Snowmass Elite Legend (Co-owned)

Snowmass Magnus Maximus

Snowmass Accoyo Elite (Standing in Utah)

Snowmass Reference Sires – Quechua Enterprises Snowmass Oracle

Snowmass Navigator

Snowmass Overture

Snowmass Elite Perspective

Snowmass Reference Sires – Quechua Enterprises Snowmass Quechua’s Innovation (Co-Owned – Standing in Germany)

Snowmass Prince of Peace

Snowmass Northern Exposure

Snowmass Supreme Impact

Snowmass Reference Sires – Quechua Enterprises Snowmass Divine Inspiration (Quechua Enterprises)

Snowmass Soul Mate (Quechua Enterprises)

Snowmass Quechua’s Masterplan (Quechua Enterprises)

Snowmass Quechua’s Continuum (Deceased)

Snowmass Reference Sires Snowmass Elite Endurance

Snowmass Seven Below

Snowmass Sub Zero (Co-owned)

Snowmass Persistence

Snowmass Reference Sires Snowmass Conopa (Lot# 17)

Snowmass Matrix Majesty (Co-owned)

Snowmass Royal Trademark (Lot# 30)

Snowmass Challenger

Snowmass Reference Sires Snowmass Royal Knight (Lot# 41)

Snowmass Matrix Midnight

Snowmass Blackout

Snowmass Canopa’s Kahuna (Co-owned)

Snowmass Reference Sires Snowmass Check Mate (Lot# 22)

Snowmass Golden Legend

Snowmass Infinity

Snowmass Odysseus (Standing in New Zealand)

Snowmass Reference Sires – Sold and Co-Ownership Snowmass Sterling Legend (Germany)

Snowmass Royal Challenger (Co-owned)

Snowmass Midnight Magic (Co-owned)

Snowmass Truly Invincible (Co-owned)

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Snowmass Invincible

Snowmass Matrix

Snowmass Trilogy

Snowmass Star Quest

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Snowmass Satin King

Snowmass Quechua’s Shahtoosh (Canada)

Snowmass Touche

Snowmass Matrix Rose

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Snowmass XXXtreme

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (United Kingdom)

Snowmass Legacy Gold

Snowmass Royal Rose

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Snowmass Royal Bronze

Snowmass Porteus (Deceased)

Snowmass Enlightenment

Snowmass Andean Night

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Snowmass Nova

Peruvian Drambuie (Australia)

Snowmass Casanova

Snowmass Andean Bronze

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Snowmass Messiah

4 Peruvian Legacy 6016

Snowmass Accoyocusani

Snowmass Snowking

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Peruvian Snowmaster (Australia)

Snowmass Perfection

Snowmass Victory Valor (owned by Snowmass)

Snowmass Messiah’s Moon River (owned by Snowmass)

Snowmass Reference Sires in New Ownership Peruvian Don Julio G159 (Australia)

Snowmass Lenox

Snowmass Prodigy

Peruvian Hemingway G171

Female Breeding Dates

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Lot Name

Bred to

1

Snowmass Legacy’s Lass

Snowmass Best Man 8/25-10/11/2011

2

Snowmass Lillystar

Snowmass Best Man 8/16-9/14/2011

3

Snowmass Quechua’s Heirloom

Snowmass Royal Challanger 10/9/2011

6

Snowmass Freedom

Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna 10/25-12/26/2011

8

Prodigy’s Promise

Snowmass Elite Legend 8/29-11/9/2011

9

Snowmass Messiah’s Grace

Snowmass Best Man 6/28-9/14/2011

10

Snowmass Chiribaya Charm

Snowmass Conopa XXX 9/27-12/13/2011

11

Snowmass Snow Sage

Snowmass Conopa XXX 12/14/2011

12

Snowmass Satin Symphony

Snowmass Seven Below 7/7-10/27/2011

14

Snowmass Gaze of Sunshine XX

Snowmass Conopa XXX 9/6-10/13/2011

15

Snowmass Highland Rainbow

Snowmass Elite Endurance 6/14-8/31/2011

19

Snowmass Sweet Array

Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna 9/20-10/12/2011

20

Snowmass Delightful Duet

Snowmass Best Man 8/27-10/11/2011

21

Snowmass Star of Gold

Snowmass Conopa XXX 8/27-10/13/2011

Hotels

24

Snowmass Silky Celebration XX

Snowmass Best Man 6/16-6/28/2011

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Covered by: Snowmass Victory Valor 8/3-9/8/2011

25

Snowmass J’Nae’s Matrix Lace

Snowmass Victory Valor 8/1-9/8/2011

26

Snowmass Matrix Myst XX

Snowmass XXX Legacy XXX 7/24-9/8/2011

28

Snowmass Tupelo Honey

Snowmass Conopa XXX 7/11-9/8/2011

32

Snowmass Matrix Cashmina

Snowmass Seven Below 7/31-10/27/2011

33

TGF Accoyocusani’s Legacyena

Snowmass Elite Legend 8/17/2011

34

Snowmass Infinit Isis

Snowmass Best Man 6/28-9/14/2011

35

Snowmass Golden Serenity

Snowmass Conopa XXX 10/10-12/13/2011

36

Snowmass Winter Dreams

Snowmass Best Man 7/7-9/14/2011

38

Snowmass XXXtremely Secret

Snowmass Black Out 7/24-10/3/2011

39

Snowmass Silent Night

Snowmass Black Out 8/25-10/3/2011

40

Snowmass Midnight Royalty

Snowmass XXX Legacy XXX 6/16-9/29/2011

42

Snowmass Royal Heart

Snowmass Conopa XXX 10/31-12/13/2011

44

Snowmass Tahitian Sunset

Snowmass Golden Legend 10/17-11/28/2011

46

Snowmass Sizlin Secret

Snowmass Conopa XXX 10/7-12/13/2011

47

Snowmass Matrix Shezaquipa

Snowmass Check Mate 12/1/2011

48

Snowmass Passion N Fashion

Snowmass Royal Endurance 11/7-11/28/2011

53

Snowmass Inca Quipa

Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna 9/26-11/18/2011

56

Snowmass Grace in Lace

Snowmass Standing Ovation 7/18-7/26/2011

58

Snowmass Andean Mist

Snowmass Elite Endurance 6/28-8/31/2011

59

Snowmass Quechuan Song

Snowmass Conopa XXX 10/31-12/13/2011

60

TGF SPA Alpaca’s Augusta

Snowmass Elite Legend 8/17/2011

61

Snowmass Heavenly Star XX

Snowmass Elite Endurance 11/7-11/28/2011

We will be offering social functions as well as informative presentations and ongoing discussions during the entire weekend. Our presenters will be available at all times to answer any questions.

MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY AS THIS WILL BE HIGH SEASON IN ARIZONA

Sale Lots

The Making of Champions – Genetic Advancement Sale 2011 Lot 1

Snowmass Legacy’s Lass

Female

(Beige)

Lot 31 Snowmass Almandine

Female

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 1

Snowmass The Legend Continues

Male

(Medium Fawn)

Lot 32 Snowmass Matrix Cashmina

Female

(Beige)

Lot 2

Snowmass Lillystar

Female

(White)

Lot 32 Snowmass Royal Cashmino

Male

(White)

Lot 2

Snowmass Divine Heart

Male

(White)

Lot 33 TGF Accoyocusani’s Legacyena

Female

(White)

Lot 3

TGF Snowmass Quechua’s Heirloom

Female

(White)

Lot 34 Snowmass Infinit Isis

Female

(Beige)

Lot 3

TGF Heirloom’s Keep-Sake

Female

(White)

Lot 35 Snowmass Golden Serenity

Female

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 4

Snowmass Sweet Elegance

Female

(White)

Lot 35 Snowmass Quechuan Serenity

Female

(White)

Lot 5

Snowmass Bells of Beauty

Female

(Beige)

Lot 36 Snowmass Winter Dreams

Female

(Beige)

Lot 6

Snowmass Freedom

Female

(Beige)

Lot 36 Snowmass Winter Solstice

Male

(Beige)

Lot 6

Snowmass Divine Freedom

Male

(Beige)

Lot 37 Snowmass Kuliana

Female

(Medium Brown)

Lot 7

Snowmass Best Man

Male

(White)

Lot 38 Snowmass XXXtremely Secret

Female

(Dark Brown)

Lot 8

Prodigy’s Promise

Female

(White)

Lot 38 Snowmass XXX-Travegant

Male

(Dark Brown)

Lot 8

Snowmass Prodigy’s Best Man

Male

(White)

Lot 39 Snowmass Silent Night

Female

(True Black)

Lot 9

Snowmass Messiah’s Grace

Female

(White)

Lot 40 Snowmass Midnight Royalty

Female

(True Black)

Lot 9

Snowmass Best N Grace

Male

(Beige)

Lot 40 Snowmass Matrix Midnight Majesty

Male

(Light Brown)

Lot 10 Snowmass Chiribaya Charm

Female

(Light Fawn)

Lot 41 Snowmass Royal Knight

Male

(True Black)

Lot 11 Snowmass Snow Sage

Female

(White)

Lot 42 Snowmass Royal Heart

Female

(Medium Brown)

Lot 12 Snowmass Satin Symphony

Female

(White)

Lot 43 TGF Pepper

Female

(Medium Fawn)

Lot 12 Snowmass Prodigious

Male

(White)

Lot 44 Snowmass Tahitian Sunset

Female

(Medium Brown)

Lot 14 Snowmass Gaze of Sunshine XX

Female

(Light Fawn)

Lot 45 Snowmass Royal Satin

Male

(Light Brown)

Lot 14 Snowmass Gaze of Gold

Male

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 46 Snowmass Sizlin Secret

Female

(Light Fawn)

Lot 15 Snowmass Highland Rainbow

Female

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 46 Snowmass Love N Legacy

Female

(Light Brown)

Lot 16 Snowmass Love Continues

Female

(Light Fawn)

Lot 47 Snowmass Matrix Shezaquipa

Female

(Beige)

Lot 17 Snowmass Conopa XXX

Male

(Medium Fawn)

Lot 48 Snowmass Passion N Fashion

Female

(Medium Fawn)

Lot 18 Snowmass Conopa’s Inca

Female

(White)

Lot 49 Snowmass Maderian Gold

Male

(Dark Brown)

Lot 19 Snowmass Sweet Array

Female

(Beige)

Lot 50 Snowmass Majestic Shadow

Female

(Medium Brown)

Lot 19 Snowmass XXXodus

Male

(Medium Fawn)

Lot 51 Snowmass Legends Passion

Female

(Medium Fawn)

Lot 20 Snowmass Delighful Duet

Female

(White)

Lot 52 Snowmass Olympia’s Oasis

Female

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 21 Snowmass Star of Gold

Female

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 53 Snowmass Inca Quipa

Female

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 21 Snowmass Star of Passion

Male

(Beige)

Lot 53 Snowmass Incan Matrix

Male

(Beige)

Lot 22 Snowmass Check Mate

Male

(Beige)

Lot 54 TGF Lynnea

Female

(Medium Fawn)

Lot 23 TGF Ambrosi

Female

(White)

Lot 55 Snowmass Pirouette

Female

(White)

Lot 24 Snowmass Silky Celebration XX

Female

(Dark Fawn)

Lot 56 Snowmass Grace in Lace

Female

(White)

Lot 24 Snowmass Silky River

Male

(Beige)

Lot 57 Snowmass Sadee’s Legend

Female

(Beige)

Lot 25 Snowmass J’Nae’s Matrix Lace

Female

(White)

Lot 58 Snowmass Andean Mist

Female

(White)

Lot 26 Snowmass Matrix Myst XX

Female

(Medium Silver Grey)

Lot 58 Snowmass Andean Prophecy

Male

(Beige)

Lot 26 Snowmass Matrix Messiah

Male

(Beige)

Lot 59 Snowmass Quechuan Song

Female

(White)

Lot 27 Snowmass Incan Petals

Female

(Brown Roan)

Lot 60 TGF Augustana

Female

(Beige)

Lot 28 Snowmass Tupelo Honey

Female

(Brown Roan)

Lot 60 SPA Alpaca’s Augusta

Female

(Light Fawn)

Lot 29 Snowmass Golden Majesty

Female

(Dark Rose Grey)

Lot 61 Snowmass Heavenly Star XX

Female

(White)

Lot 30 Snowmass Royal Trademark

Male

(Dark Fawn)

Terms and Conditions of Sale The following Terms and Conditions as amended by any posted notices or announcements by the Auctioneer during the auction, constitute the entire agreement between SNOWMASS ALPACAS LLC, or guest consignors (the Seller), on the one hand , and bidders on the other hand.

WARRANTIES • Each maiden female alpaca(s) sold as its own lot, is guaranteed to become pregnant. Each pregnant female alpaca is sold guaranteed to birth a live cria.

Warranty ends after the first birth. The Seller is not liable for circumstances beyond their control causing infertility. Female alpacas sold as their own lot that are not pregnant and over six months of age come with a no-cost breeding to a non restricted herd sire solely owned by Seller.

• A proven female/male alpaca(s) is an alpaca(s) which has already produced a cria. A proven male alpaca is a male that has produced a cria or has successfully impregnated a female alpaca. A proven alpaca(s) will be considered to be fertile. There are no expressed or implied warranties for a proven producer.

Crias & Juveniles, sold with their dams are sold with no expressed nor implied warranties.

• A young male alpaca(s) is sold guaranteed to have anatomically correct reproductive organs and will be capable of settling a female before the age of four.

The Seller is not liable for circumstances beyond their control causing infertility.

This includes while the male alpaca(s) is in the possession of the Buyer. Young male alpaca(s) must be full body shorn annually before temperatures exceed 80º Fahrenheit, failure to do so will void the warranty and Buyer’s Insurance policy will be the sole source of remedy. * If abuse or neglect occurs to purchased alpaca(s) while in Buyer’s possession resulting in a lost pregnancy and or infertility, this will nullify all warranties.

UNLESS AS EXPRESSLY STATED ABOVE, SELLER MAKES NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NOR DOES THE SELLER MAKE ANY WARRANTY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE ANIMALS IN THIS SALE. The foregoing is the full extent of the responsibility of the Seller and by the way of illustration and not limitation, in no event shall the Seller be liable for incidental or consequential damages, or for any changes or expenses of any nature incurred without Seller’s written permission.

TERMS A Cash Sale: Terms of the sale are cash and payment in full must be made to the cashier immediately following purchase; personal checks are to be payable to Celebrity Sales. Seller reserves the right to require a certified check as Settlement before releasing the animal.

B Financed Sale: Seller may finance an alpaca(s) with 30% down to be paid immediately following purchase at the auction. The balance may be financed at Prime Rate plus 1% fixed at the time of the auction and adjusted quarterly at 1% plus prime at the option of the Seller. Financing terms are 36 months for males, and 12 months for females sold under $20,000 and up to 36 months for females sold above $20,000. Payments are to be made monthly unless arranged otherwise with seller. In the event the scheduled payment of the financed alpaca(s) is not received by seller within 10 days of the due date, buyer agrees to pay a penalty payment of $250 per late payment. Additionally buyer agrees that they will pay a $250 service charge on any NSF checks. Should any payment become 30 days or more past due, this note shall be considered in default, and buyer agrees that the interest rate on this promissory note shall automatically increase to 14% per annum on any and all unpaid balances, penalties, and service charges, until principal balance, services charges, penalties and interest are paid in full. Buyer will be required to sign a note, a UCC-1 Form, Sales Contract. All Alpaca(s) being financed must have proof of insurance before Buyer takes possession, naming the Seller as Loss Payee. Buyer must maintain mortality insurance in the amount of remaining balance until paid in full with the Seller named as Loss Payee.

C. Registration papers for a financed alpaca(s) will not be transferred into the Buyer’s name until the financed alpaca(s) has been paid for in full. All crias born from financed females will be registered in Seller’s name until the alpaca(s) is

paid in full. All signed certificates for services performed from financed males will signed by Seller as owner at time of breeding until the alpaca(s) is paid in full. Any and all moneys generated from the financed alpaca(s) including but not limited to the sale of offspring, breeding service, insurance proceeds and the like will go against the unpaid balance owed to the Seller until the balance is paid in full.

BIDDING: The highest bidder recognized by the Auctioneer shall be the Buyer.

Bids tendered after the fall of the hammer are not valid grounds for dispute. If any dispute arises between two or more bidders or in the event of doubt on the Auctioneer’s part as to the validity of any bid, the Auctioneer will have the final discretion either to determine the successful bidder, or to re-offer and resell the alpaca in question. The Auctioneer’s determination is conclusive and not subject to challenge. The Auctioneer reserves the right to reject any bid. Agents Authorization: Persons acting as agents must so indicate on the Sale Ticket.

TAPE: A recorded tape will be made of the entire sale which shall be used to settle disputes regarding statements made about animals while they were in the auction ring.

TITLE AND DELIVERY: Title passes to the Buyer upon the fall of the hammer.

All risk of death or injury to the alpaca becomes the Buyer’s risk upon the fall of the hammer. An “Acknowledgment of Purchase” shall be signed by each buyer following their purchase. Please write your full name and address clearly. Any arrangement for disposition of the alpaca after purchase other than immediate removal must be made directly between Buyer and Seller.

REGISTRATION PAPERS: All registration papers will be delivered when the checks clear the bank, or in the case of a financed animal, when the note is paid in full. Buyer is responsible for all transfer fees.

DEFAULT OF PURCHASE: If any person shall purchase a lot and not pay for it as described above and in contract of sale, the Seller shall have, in addition to all other legal rights, the right to repossess and resell the lot. Defaulting Buyer agrees to pay all costs of any legal action, together with all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred on actions of default..

TRANSPORTATION: The Buyer, at Buyer’s own expense, shall transport the alpaca(s) from the auction. Any arrangements made for the alpaca(s) after purchase, other than immediate removal, must be made directly between the Buyer and Transporter or Seller. Buyer is responsible for all medical bills. There will be transporters available at the auction to deliver the alpacas to the Buyer’s farm for the Buyer. If buyer needs agistment with Seller, arrangements can be made for alpaca(s) to be transported and boarded at Seller’s Farm.

CATALOG: Every effort has been made to ensure correctness of the catalog; however, the Seller is not responsible for errors or omissions. Breeding dates and due dates are recorded as performed and given for your information only and are not guaranteed. Any known corrections shall be announced at the sale.

The Auctioneer’s Box announced corrections shall take precedence over any and all statements made in this catalog.

NO LIABILITY: Any person attending the auction sale does so at their own risk and no liability, duties, obligations, and/or responsibilities shall be imposed upon Snowmass Alpacas LLC or Celebrity Sales for any accident, injury, mishap, theft, damage, and/or any other harm regardless of the source of imposition.

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY OF AUCTIONEER: Neither the Auctioneer, Celebrity Sales, Tim Vincent and/or Tom Simmons, nor any gents, make any representation or warranties whatsoever with respect to the sale animals. All representations contained herein are made by the Seller.

GOVERNING LAW: The sale and all transactions between the Buyer and Seller will be governed by the laws of Bonner County in the State of Idaho.

IMPORTANT NOTICES ABSENTEE BIDS: Absentee bidding is available as a convenience for Buyers who are unable to attend the auction. These bids are accepted subject to Terms and Conditions of Sale. Although every effort will be made to execute these bids, Seller will not be responsible for error or failure to execute bids.

BUYERS ARE URGED TO EXAMINE ALPACAS CAREFULLY AND READ TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

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