The only male from THAT maternal line!
CCNF Moonraker
Huacaya, Herdsire (Male), Unproven | Light Brown
ARI# 35292937, D.O.B. 10/28/2015,
Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty ARI#
31139731 Light Brown Snowmass Matrix Majesty was the Reserve Dark Herdsire of the Year award at the 2011 Futurity as well as the Fawn Champion at the 2010 Futurity and with good reason too. Since that time he has had several crops of crias born here at Cas-Cad-Nac and to say that he has been impactful in our breeding program, would be a gross understatement. In addition to multiple Championships and Judges' Choice awards (at both the 2014 AOA National Show and 2014 Futurity) his offspring have also combined to win multiple Get-of-sire classes for their all-world sire. Majesty was also the winner of the Futurity Herdsire of the Year awards again in both 2013 and 2014.
Matrix Majesty is the genetic amalgam of some of the greatest names to ever grace the North American alpaca herd. Herdsires such as Chaccu, Legacy, Hemingway, Quechua, Matrix, Elite, Augusto, Accoyocusani, and Bueno are all present. Also present in his pedigree are the famous rock star dams PPP Prestige, 4P Isabella, PP Jesusa, and Snowmass Maree Love, the first three of whom we also had the great privilege of having here in our foundation herd late in their lives. Needless to say, the genetics in this guy are stacked and it shows.
Snowmass Matrix Majesty displays the amazing fleece characteristics that the Quechua line has become known for: the combination of elite fineness and uniformity throughout while sacrificing nothing in density. Now fully owned by CCNF and used almost exclusively within our own herd where we play him off of the CCNF Elixir and CCNF Royal Ring of Fire lines, as of January 2017 Majesty is closed for outside stud service.
Dam: CCNF Moonlight ARI#
30687769 Light Brown Multiple Champion daughter of our Herdsire, Golden Sovereign and thus a granddaughter of the mighty PPeruvian Jesusa. She was a fleece monster as a little nipper and has done nothing to disappoint us since joining our production herd in 2008. Of her two older daughters (both sired by CCNF Royal Ring of Fire), CCNF Mahina is now living with our friends at Alpacajoy of Norway, and her eldest daughter, CCNF La Vie en Rose, has joined her dam as a linchpin in our colored breeding program and will be represented by two of *her* daughters in our spring 2017 show string.
Description
We have a habit – good or bad, we will let the historic record make that call in the end – of hoarding members of certain lines in order to build up a genetic base and hedge our bets going forward. In the case of Moonraker, we also have three of his full sisters, Moonbeam, Luna Majesty, and Clair de Lune in our production herd as well as his dam, CCNF Moonlight (she a highly coveted member of the PPP Jesusa line as a daughter of Gold Sovereign). How powerful is that genetic line? The Elixir crias born to Moonbeam and Luna (genetically full siblings) were the female and male Judges' Choice winners at the 2018 Futurity. They also went on to win their respective Championships at the AOA National Fleece Show, where Valyria (the white female) bested her brother/cousin, Sovereign-Legacy (the fawn male) for the one and only Huacaya JC award. And all of that without a Lutz on the end of a lead line, so maybe (just maybe!) the fleeces have something going for them after all?
All of which goes to show why Moonraker is definitely going to be sticking around in some capacity at least. Though slightly more stocky than his older sister, Moonraker takes after Luna the most in terms of appearance and style, which is not a bad thing by any measure. Dense, fine, bright…you get the picture. At the risk of stating the obvious, if he didn’t bring something special to the table, we wouldn't be using him here in our program or offering him for outside stud service.
Update: Moonraker's first cria, CCNF Maid Marian was the Champion Fawn Female Huacaya at the 2020 AOA National Fleece Show!
Awards
1st Place - 2016 NEAOBA Fall Show
1st Place - 2016 Empire Extravaganza
2nd Place - 2017 NAAS
2nd Place - 2017 Northeast Alpaca Expo
1st Place - 2017 AOA National Fleece Show
Champion Brown Huacaya Male - 2017 AOA National Fleece Show
2nd Place - 2018 AOA National Fleece Show
Reserve Champion Brown Huacaya Male - 2018 AOA National Fleece Show