It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Reserved on October 14, 2021. This stunning dark roan stud with brilliantly bright fleece comes from highly selective combinations of elite Peruvian color genetics. Snowmass Reserved's sire, Snowmass Royal Reserve, linage provides indisputable excellence in colored huacaya alpacas. Two memorable "uncles" are Snowmass Royal Challenger and Snowmass XXXtreme. Snowmass Royal Reserves dam line is equally notable. Snowmass Reserved's paternal grand-dam, Snowmass Canagalli Rose, was a Futurity Champion and came from Peruvian Import, 5Peruvian Cangalli. The Cangalli breeders were very well known for some of the finest colored alpacas ever imported. Snowmass Reserved never placed below a first place in halter classes. Overall throughout his carrier, he had won five first-place ribbions and three Championship banners, two of which were awarded to him at the 2009 and 2010 Futurity, the other at the 2010 Great Western Alpaca Show. His long-lasting fine, dense, bright fleece always drove him to the top of his class, which is what he passes on to his offspring. Snowmass' description of Snowmass Reserved at the 2010 Genetic Advancement Sale: Snowmass Reserved is one of those cries we were excited about from the moment he was born. He was truly one of the most impressive dark colored males born to us in 2007. His name was easy as we knew right away he was a KEEPER so "RESERVED" became his name. His sire, Snowmass Royal Reserve, is a brother to Snowmass Royal Challenger and showed and stood hand in hand in Championships with Royal Challenger at each of the shows he was in. Snowmass Royal Reserve is unique to his brother in that his dam is one of our finest Peruvian Cangalli lines produced. Cangalli is a breeders name in Peru that proved to carry some of the finest color alpacas we had ever screened for purchase and why we named the first import we purchase from this breeder Peruvian Cangalli. We bred Cangalli to Accoao Snowmaster and produced Snowmass Cangalli Rose who took Color Futurity Champion in her day, all of which makes Snowmass Reserved's sire lineage so influential. Snowmass Reserved's dam, 5Peruvian Tapara is a highly selected and screened 5Peruvian import that we also selected to purchase for her very fine color fleece. With only 29 offspring registered under AOA they have won a total of 39 Championship banners and 58 First place ribbons.

MSA Valpolicella is an exceptional foundation female! MSA Valpolicella is a trail-blazing synthesis of genetics from the best colors lines in the huacaya breeding world. Her dam, is a direct daughter of 4Peruvian Altiplano Gold 6026, whose offspring are highly saught after. His reputation for consistently producing high levels of quality in his offspring is unmatched by most males. He has an amazing ability to pass on positive traits in fleece and conformation--with over 90% of his offspring (or those with his lineage) placing first and second in tough local and national competitions. A fine example of this would be his granddaughter, our MSA Valpolicella. Valpolicella is the daughter of Patagonia's El Trauco. A full Chilean Shackleton son known for his fine fleece. Trauco is an 8x color champion (including AOBA and All-American Futurity) who produces beautiful typey heads on his crias. His cria are winners at halter and fleece and exhibit elegant phenotype as well. Combining these two lineages created the perfect breeding female to use within a color program. Proof? Valpolicella was used within our foundation female breedings from 2009 to 2019. That is extraordinary for a female to be used within a program for 10 straight years and just goes to prove just how good of a producer she is. Five of her nine offspring have been used within our breeding program. Despite this female being a little old in age, she can still produce exceptional crias. She is still in healthy condition to be able to hold a few more crias. And for that reason we would sell Valpolicella with a free non-transferable breeding. With her genetics we would like to see her go to our back-to-back Dark Colored Offspring Futurity Herdsire of the Year winner: Red Granites Val D LSere. This is a steal folks, he has been closed to breedings since 2016 and offering a breeding with a female like this is simply unreal.