Futurity Reserve Champion
Zodiac's Frango's Sapphire
Huacaya, Bred (Female), Proven | Dark Rose Grey
ARI# 35290032, D.O.B. 6/27/2016, Full Peruvian
Sire: JLFA Casanova's Peruvian Frango ARI#
30836471 Light Rose Grey Frango is out of an award winning dam that comes from the Peruvian Silverado line, which is a very potent combination of genetics! Frango is a multiple blue ribbon winner and took the Color Champion Banner at the 2009 Spring Bling show! He is a very fine alpaca with excellent density and long staple. He is compact with strong bone and features. He is one of the best sons of the famous Snowmass Peruvian Casanova.
Frango's offspring are hitting the ground, and as expected, they're a fantastic combination of superior quality and vibrant color...He often throws true black, a rich deep red, and rose and silver grays. .
Frango's dam is NESA Shakoka Mint a Medium Rose Grey, ARI#844669,Full Peruvian. Mint was an excellent ribbon winner with a strong show career, and is now one of the strongest foundation dams at Likada Farms.
Frango's sire is Snowmass Peruvian Casanova a Medium Rose Grey, ARI#169027, Full Peruvian Champion producing herdsire.
Lakada Farms top herdsire, Snowmass Peruvian Casanova was the high seller at the 2002 Celebrity Futurity Auction where he sold for an amazing $147,000! He had a micron count of 18.3 at 3.5 years of age and his recent histogram was still under 25 microns at over 9 years of age! Casanova took home the prestigious Futurity Herdsire of the Year honors in 2003 for his outstanding offspring! Not only that, in 2005, the Futurity Dark Herdsire of the Year was a Casanova son, Snowmass Nova, who sold in early 2006 for over $300,000! It's the first time ever that a sire and his progeny have won this prestigious award! With all the Champion progeny that he has produced, what would a Casanova offspring do to enhance your sales list?
Stud fee is $1000.
Dam: Seena's Pride & Glory ARI#
32003178 Dark Brown Seena's Pride & Glory is a very dense and crimpy medium brown female being 100% Peruvian and 50% Accoyo. Her fiber is incredible as this combination of Seena & Andian Pride has always been. Her Full sister(Natalie from same sire and dam) set the record at The Peruvian Classic Sale at Stachowski Farms in Mantua, Ohio on November 1st, 2003 selling for $40,000.00. Her sire Andian Pride has thrown all first and second place winners. Andian Pride was a Blue Ribbon winner at the 2000 AOBA All American Futurity show and a Red Ribbon winner at the AOBA sponsored Michigan Alpaca Breeders show 2001. Andian Pride has Impeccable fiber fineness, crimp and density besides incredible coverage, and strong bony conformation made him the perfect sire. This 100% Accoyo male who was born in HISTAC quarantine during 98 importation has continued to produce some breathtakingly beautiful crias. All of his dam's(Peruvian Seena) daughters have sold in auctions. Her half sister Rich Girl(from Seena and Accoyo Rama) sold in the same auction for $27,000.00. Seena's Goldilock's who sold at the National Auction for $68,000 in 2004 had an excellent Show Record: Kentucky Classic 1st and Color Champion out of 26 entries, PAOBA 1st & Color Champion, AOBA Nationals Reserve Color Championship and 2nd in full fleece.
Seena's Pride & Glory was born 3/24/2010.
We have had skin biospy's done by Dr. Norm Evans on dam Seena's cria with the following results:
All of their follicle density's were over 77.5 follicles/mm! Their S/P ratio's were an astounding 9.00/1 or better. All of their secondary medullated fibers were 5-% or higher and all have awesome gland density. "These alpacas have many powerful genetic traits", per Dr. Norm Evans.
Glory was bred to Snowmass Enlightenment and had a MRG female cria on 4/8/13 we named Reina Perfecta. Reina took 1st & Color Champion at MIAF this fall at 7 months old. Reina was consigned to the AOA National Auction in March 2015 and sold to the Grey Company $13,000. She then went on to win Reserve color champion over 50+ gray females, and also was reserve Color Champion at Mapaca.
She was bred back to Frango on 5/31/13 and had a handsome black male cria, El Capitan.
The cria is not included in this sale.
She is now being bred back to Snowmass Enlighenment to hopefully produce a carbon copy of Reina.
Service Sire: FT Gunner ARI#
35135791 Medium Fawn Gunner's sire is Sunset Hills Zagato: 16-time color champion winner and 2-time Judges’ Choice winner. Gunner himself has an impressive show record. He has a strong frame and good conformation. His fleece is luxuriously soft and has high amplitude crimp. He has just started his breeding career, his first babies have been a darker color than their moms.
When we saw his pedigree we knew we had to have this boy. He goes back to our famous mom Seena and Full Accoyo male Andian Pride, and their daughter Seena's Goldilocks that we sold at auction for $67,000! And the fact that he is a son of Zagato helped seal the deal!
He is producing grays when bred to gray, and a variety of other colors.
Co-Owned with Oasis Acres.
Description
Fantastic Dark Rose Grey AND Full Peruvian beauty! Sapphire is the 1/2 sister to Enlightenment's Reina Perfecta, a 5-Time Champion grey female from dam Seena's Pride & Glory.
Sire is Casanova's Peruvian Frango a multi Champion gray Herdsire son of Snowmass Casanova. She has developed to an Elite quality female with density, crimp from skin to the tip and perfect conformation. I would say she is a cross between her 5-time champion 1/2 sister Reina and her dam's full sister Seena's Goldilocks, but the best traits from both into one great dark rose grey alpaca.
3 Shows, 3 Championships, 3 Banners & only a Juvenile!
Come take a look at one of the Best Grey females in the USA.
In 2022, Sapphire was bred to Diamonte and produced a beautiful dark brown female, she was sold at just 2 months of age!
For 2024, we have decided to breed Sapphire off farm to Snowmass Occult, a fabulous black male owned by Cotton Creek ranch. She produced a brown male who looks very promising and will be taken to shows when he comes of age.
She was bred to Color Champion FT Gunner, a Zagato son for a 2025 cria.
Awards
Champion - 2017 MAPACA Small Breeders Jubilee, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Grey Female Color Champion
1st Place - 2017 MAPACA Small Breeders Jubilee, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Grey Female Juvenile
Reserve Champion - 2017 The Futurity, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Grey Female Color Champion
1st Place - 2017 The Futurity, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Dark Rose Grey Female Juvenile
Reserve Champion - 2017 Buckeye Alpaca Show, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Grey Female Color Champion
2nd Place - 2017 Buckeye Alpaca Show, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Rose Grey Female Juvenile
1st Place - 2017 MAPACA Jubilee, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Rose Grey Female Juvenile
3rd Place - 2017 MAPACA Jubilee, Walking Fleece, Huacaya Rose Grey Juvenile
4th Place - 2017 PAOBA Breeders Showcase, Halter, Full Fleece Huacaya Rose Grey Female Yearling