If breeders do their job right, eventually there is always a next-generation advancement that will bring something new to the table. CCNF Bataclan represents the amalgam of some of the most exciting and prepotent lines that we have ever worked with here, going back over 18 years in some cases. Bataclan's sire, 2017 Futurity Herdsire of the Year CCNF Elixir, really needs very little introduction at this point. Though Elixir has given us several excellent sons, when Bataclan first started working, he represented Elixir's first white son that had the mojo to regularly steal females off of his sire's breeding list. Consider what Elixir has meant to us over the past few years and then let the statement above sink in. Yes, Bataclan is that special. Maternally, Bataclan combines the genetics of Snowmass Sub-Zero (a Champion 6P Monarch son) and our Futurity Champion, MFI Peruvian Precocious, who is of course himself a son of the mighty Jeremiah. Just on paper alone, the pedigree is fairly drool-inducing but the specimen in person also happens to walk the walk as well. With a more compact size and build, that most closely resembles that of his Champion dam, CCNF Daliance (Snowmass Sub-Zero x CCNF Flirtatious), and a fleece that is both dense, bright, and very well organized, Bataclan is absolutely poised to be the next big thing here at his birth farm. Update - Spring of 2022: After 2+ pandemic-laden years where his offspring primarily competed only via the AOA National Fleece Show (albeit winning several banners, including the Female Judges' Choice in 2020 for his daughter, CCNF Electra) the Bataclan kids stormed into their first-ever Futurity winning the Light Get of Sire Class, 6 individual blue ribbons, 1 Reserve Championship (White Huacaya Male), 2 Championships (Light Huacaya Male & White Huacaya Female), and the Judges' Choice Female Huacaya! All of which led Bataclan to ultimately lay claim to the prestigious 2022 Light Herdsire of the Year, an honor his sire, Elixir, had previously claimed on three prior occasions.

Priam is one of several offspring here born to CCNF Pristine, the top white Archangel daughter in our breeding program. It was not by chance that at the 2019 Futurity Show Priam and his kid brother, Perceus (Pristine's latest), were the White Champion and Reserve Champion respectively. It is a line we value highly, with multiple maternal female siblings and nieces and grand nieces already working alongside their matriarch in our herd. Priam's older full brother, CCNF Primus, is actually headed to Germany! Though Priam was a bit too young to work last summer, we are confident that he will begin to actively breed this coming breeding season of 2019. Combining the lasting fineness of his maternal grandsire Archangel -- and let's also give some much earned respect to his maternal graddam, PPPeruvian Prestige -- with the uniformity and density of the Quechua/Matrix Majesty lines, he will have a limited but important role to play within our program. Priam will also be available for limited outside stud service.