Cassandra is a rich mahogany beauty with black points whose sire is the well-known black CPeruvian Jaxon. Cassandra has consistently soft, crimpy fleece, with a very low coefficient of variation. Her average fiber diameter increased only four microns in the first three years after her first-year histogram, and it has remained the same for the last three years. At age 7.5 years, her fiber measures 26.6/5.3/19.9/17.6. She's a wonderfully attentive mother with lots of milk who has been a steady breeder and easy keeper. She has a gentle disposition as well. This girl is one rock-solid foundation female. Cassandra carries very dark color genetics and has produced a true black, bay black, dark brown, and two medium/dark fawn crias. Her half-accoyo bay black daughter, Calidad Ipanema, has joined our foundation herd. Ipanema and Jade (another daughter), her two offspring to go into the show ring to date, both placed high in competitive classes. Cassandra gave birth on November 2, 2007 to a very nice medium fawn male, named Calidad Heat Wave, sired by Maple Brook Oro's Prince--this little guy has herdsire written all over him. She has been bred to Calidad Harbinger, son of Accoyo The Last Don and our 7-time champion CT/CCNF Cinnamon Gold. When bred to The Last Don, Cassandra produced our lovely bay black foundation female, Calidad Ipanema. This next cria should be very special too--especially with a little of Cinnamon Gold mixed in!

Leonardo's crias began to arrive in 2006, and he is consistently passing on his overall "look" and stunning fiber. Leonardo's first cria, in 2006, AML Nobility has had a phenomenal show record: Five Color Championships, three Reserve Color Championships, and nine blue ribbons; plus Judge's Choice and Best Crimp at the 2009 MAPACA as a two-year-old And other of his crias have shown well too: **AML Susanah (grey): One Color Championship **Pine Hill’s Crème Brulee (medium fawn): Three first places, one second place **Calidad Cruise Control (white): Three second places, one third place (in highly competitive white male juvie classes) **Calidad Roxanne: One first place (only show) You won't find many other working males with histogram results to compare to Leonardo's. Leonardo's micron count at 5 years of age is only 21.6, and as you can see from the annual histograms below on the left, his statistics have remained the same for four years in a row (since he was a yearling)! One of our primary breeding goals is fineness that lasts as the alpaca ages, and Leonardo is helping us achieve that goal. Leonardo is one of very few full Accoyo sons of 4P Legacy, now deceased, a herdsire who was legendary for his fiber remaining very fine past ten years of age and for producing highly prized offspring. With 4Peruvian Legacy as his sire and Accoyo Grand Master daughter as his grandsire, Leonardo has spectacular lineage. He has beautiful, fine, bright, soft, crimpy, consistent fleece. Solid bone, a pleasing head, and all-around excellent conformation complete the picture of a top herdsire. One judge described him at 3-1/2 years old as a "superb male." A half interest in Leonardo is for sale. I plan to retain the other half interest. Fleece samples and histograms are available for multiple years.