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REVOLUTION
SOLD AT AUCTION!
It was no less than a high-wire
act at the 2012 AOBA National Auction, but I understand, "All's Well That
Ends Well". And, the Revolution sale as Lot # 7, ended well for us
- and
even more importantly - for Patricia Rice and Pat Hamilton of Virginia Breeze Alpacas.
They
purchased Revolution for $65,000 cash, and if that was not generous enough,
they let us retain 10 breedings to
him.
Thank you so much
Virginia Breeze Alpacas!
REVOLUTION
AT AUCTION
We were asked to put in a big
gun for the 2012 AOBA National Auction and we felt greatly honored to have
been asked to help.
We promised we would do our best
to help make the National auction a success - and to do our best, means we
have to enter no less than our best.
And when we think of what "our
best" means, we would have to define this as an alpaca we would much more
prefer to buy, than to sell.
So, why would we want to buy
Revolution? For starters, he's got an incredible portfolio that is
filled with:
1) Terrific photos of his fleece
and frame = good marketing materials.
2) An award sheet as long as
one's arm winning championship after championship, year after year for FIVE
years in a row. In fact, when he won his 17th championship (the Grey
Male Color Champion at 2010 Level V North American) his daughter was in the
ring next to him and won Grey Female Color Champion! = incredible marketing
materials.
3) Photos of his numerous award
winning cria = proof that he can truly deliver (and consistently deliver)
the goods and receive...
4) Accolades from clients who
have breed their females to him.
5) A terrific employment history
and he's still getting lots of bookings for breedings.
But the real reason we would
want to buy Revolution relates to color. Someone once asked me what
makes a great grey breeding program. One would normally think that this
would equate to the quality of the grey offspring being produced. But,
grey is a niche color (indeed highly sought after and high value for sure)
but grey to grey breedings don't guarantee a grey cria (like black to black
= black) and solids (blacks, browns, fawns) often are produced out of a grey
parent. Solids are typically more competitive colors than the greys so
the quality of a solid has to be very high indeed to achieve winnings and
recognition.
This is not to say that it does
not feel terrific to win a grey championship (winning our 115th grey championship
at 2012 MAPACA felt just as good as winning our first one). But, when
you are facing big competition (lots of other high quality alpacas competing
against you) you are more than likely to be in a solid class and to us,
winning a black, brown or fawn championship means even more as the
competition is tougher.
So, back to the question about
what makes a great grey breeding program. My answer would be having greys
which not only produce championship quality greys, but when they produce a
solid color the quality is still so great that this solid can champion
over the solids produced out of other solids. Therefore, a grey male
(or female) that I would want to purchase, is one that no mater what the
color or pattern of the offspring produced, the cria is still going to be a
winner. Hence, I don't have to hope that the offspring is grey, and
won't have to worry I'll feel disappointed when it isn't.
Now to wrap this up - Solid
Crias off of a Grey Parent...
At the 2011 MAPACA Show,
Revolution had to compete against some very difficult competition to win the
Senior Herdsire of the Year award. In fact the runner up (by just 1/2
of a point) was our highly decorated white stud,
Sheer Galaxy.
Revolution won the trophy as he had sired...
The
Grey Female Color Champion (1st of 35)
The
Black Color Champion Fleece
(1st of 16)
The
Black Male Color Champion (1st of 47)
The
Fawn Male Male Color Champion (1st of 68)
Revolution has proven that when
he sires a solid, the solid can go on to best all of the other solids; a
winner no matter what the color. AND, that is why we have him in our
program and why he is an alpaca we would rather buy then sell.
Offering him at auction, is
indeed, putting forth "our best".
Revolution (2012 AOBA Lot #7) Buyer's Choice
Revolution has been and remains
a very important part of our breeding program. Therefore, it would set us
back, along with many of our clients, to see him go. After brainstorming on
this for a while, we've decided, with the cooperation of Celebrity Sales, to
offer a Buyer's Choice.
Bidding will be for Half
Interest in Revolution We will then become partners with the highest
bidder and work together to continue his promotion and development of
offspring. However, should the highest
bidder so desire, they can exercise their Buyer's Choice and elect to
purchase Full Interest in Revolution by purchasing the other half
(doubling their bid); which, to be honest, will help take some of the sting out of us having to let him go.
For more on this opportunity
please call or text Doug at 315-729-0064. Or email
Doug@BeMyAlpaca.com.
And please make sure to have a
look at our favorite
Revolution daughter. She'll be at 2012 AOBA, and in fact will be
on the stage with Revolution and then again when lot 38 is called.
Here's more on Revolution's
performance at 2011 MAPACA...
Revolution wins
Senior Herd Sire of the Year!
The 2011 MaPaca (Mid-Atlantic
Alpaca Association) Jubilee is one of our country's
largest shows with over 1,000 alpacas entered. This Level V show held their
second "Herd Sire
of the Year" competition. There were 20 champion sires entered into
two
categories:
• Senior (males greater than 5
years of age) and,
• Junior (males 5 years of age
and younger).
The winner of
the competition was to be determined by:
1) Placement of the sire's
offspring at the show,
2) Amount of money bid on a
drive-by breeding to the sire, and
3) Voting for favorite stud by breeders in attendance.
While at the MaPaca
show, we thought Revolution stood a good chance of making a run for the award as:
• His
crias did extremely well in the show ring, winning 4 Color Championships
(Black Color Champion Halter, Black Color Champion Fleece, Fawn Male Color
Champion Halter, and Grey Female Color Champion Halter).
• He received the third highest
bid for a breeding: $2,200, which is 88% of his standard fee. Sheer
Galaxy was the highest seller at $3,050 (87% of his standard fee).
Turns
out Revolution was the top stud and was awarded MAPACA SENIOR HERD SIRE OF THE
YEAR. Way to go Revolution!
PS - Revolution competed against
Sheer Galaxy
for the trophy again this year, Last year, Sheer Galaxy won with Revolution
winning 3rd place. This year, it was a "photo finish" between these two
studs with Revolution beating Sheer Galaxy by only 2/10 of a point!
Revolution crias win
big at 2011 Spring Shows
2011
AOBA National Show (Level V)
• Black
Male Color Champion:
IF Santiago
2011
PAOBA Breeder's Showcase (Level IV)
(our farm was
not present)
• Brown
Male Reserve Color Champion:
Bayshore's Nikon
• Fawn
Male Color Champion Halter:
Revolution's Grayson
2011
Northeast Alpaca Expo (Level IV)
• Black
Male Color Champion:
IF Santiago
2011
MAPACA Eastern Alpaca Jubilee (Level V)
• Black
Male Color Champion:
IF Santiago
• Black
Color Champion Fleece:
IF Santiago
• Fawn
Male Color Champion Halter:
Revolution's Grayson
• Grey
Female Color Champion Halter:
A.L. Paca's Arose from Revolution.
2011
Virginia Classic
(our farm was
not present)
• Brown
Male Color Champion:
Bayshore's Nikon
• Fawn
Male Color Champion:
Revolution's Grayson
2011
Southern Select
(our farm was
not present)
• Fawn
Male Reserve Color Champion:
Revolution's Grayson.
The
Fawn Male Color Champion
was our co-owned male Ringo Cloud
2011
Carolina Alpaca Celebration (Level IV)
• Black
Male Color Champion:
IF Santiago
• Grey
Female Reserve Color Champion: A.L. Paca's Arose from Revolution.
Revolution Daughter Sells for $46,000!
The High Seller at the 2010 AOBA
National Auction was 3-time Champion A.L. Paca's Revlon. This beautiful
rose-grey female was our first cria sired by A.L. Paca's Revolution. More on
her auction sale is available
here.
Revolution
is
the winner of (well, let's just say he's done pretty well)...
2010 (Fifth Year in Show Ring)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2010 North American Alpaca Show
(Level V,
~43 grey males,
Diana Timmerman).
A few
interesting notes about this extremely competitive, Level V show:
• We
accomplished one of our biggest (and toughest) show ring goals at 2010 North
American. This was to have
one of our studs win Color Champion AND
one of his offspring win Color Champion at the same show. Goal
Achieved - and at a Level V show no less!
A.L. Paca's
Revlon won
Grey Female Color Champion. Photos of Revolution and
Revlon with their Color Champion photos posted
here.
• Revolution
himself was still Color Champion quality just almost 5 years of age.
He has now been awarded Color Championships from 2006 through 2010, a total
of 5 consecutive years.
• The other
Revolution offspring at the show placed in the top of their classes. A rose
grey male placed second, a
fawn male placed 3rd and a
bay-black male also placed 3rd.
• We have been
looking for a new black male to add to our program for many years now and we
finally found him at this show. He's still a juvenile, but to look at him
you would think he's ready to go to work. He has a beautiful fleece (super
soft handle, remarkably consistent and glowing brightness)! More info on
IF Santiago is coming soon but we'll tell you that we did not have to stray too far
from home for him as he is one of Revolution's offspring! Watch out for
Santiago (he'll be stalled with Revolution at 2010 MAPACA). AND a
huge thank you to Ken and Ruth Hopkins of Independence Farm for selling us a
half-interest in this striking up-and-coming sire.
2009 (Fourth Year)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2009 PAOBA Breeder's Showcase
(Level IV,
34 grey males,
Jill MacLeod).
A few
notes about his 16th Championship win:
• To win Color
Champion at the show, Revolution had to beat two of our other multi-champion
grey males: 4-time Champion
A.L. Paca's Jackhammer and 8-time Champion
Simba's Silver Maze both of which are two years younger and still in their
prime as yearlings.
• The PAOBA
Breeder's Showcase has treated Revolution extremely well. He has been
awarded the Grey Male Color Champion at this show four times in the last
four years! Each show under a different judge.
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2009 Carolina Alpaca Celebration
(Level IV,
33 grey males,
Diana Timmerman).
2008 (Third Year)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2008
PAOBA Breeder's Showcase (Level V,
51 grey males, Diana Timmerman)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2008
North American Alpaca Show (Level V,
40 grey males, Charlene Friedman)
¨
1st
Place,
2008
Carolina Alpaca Celebration Fleece Show.
2007 (Second Year)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2007 NY Empire
Alpaca Extravaganza (Level V,
35 grey males, Diana Timmerman)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2007 Big E (Level
II, 19
grey males,
Wade Gease)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2007 PAOBA Breeder's Showcase (Level IV,
35 grey males, Tim Lavan)
¨
1st
Place/15, 2007 North American (Level V, Kristin Buhrmann)
Also, 2nd/9 in
Bred and Owned Yearling Dark Male
(Amanda VandenBosch).
¨
1st
Place &
Reserve
Color Champion,
2007 Maryland (Sharon Loner, non-AOBA certified)
2006 (First Year)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2006
Ohio AlpacaFest (Level V, 49 grey males, Wade Gease)
Also, 2nd/10 in
Bred and Owned Yearling Dark Male and 1st in Breeder's Best Group of Three.
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2006 Virginia
Alpaca Owners & Breeders VAOBA (Level III, 29 grey males, Tim Lavan)
Also, 2nd/6 in
Bred and Owned Yearling Male and 1st in Breeder's Best Group of Three.
¨
1st
Place &
Reserve
Color Champion,
2006 MFI Customer Appreciation
Futurity (non-AOBA certified).
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2006 Big E (Level
II, 12 grey males, Wade Gease).
Also 2nd in Bred
and Owned Yearling Male (1st was A.L. Paca's Copper Top) and 1st in
Breeder's Best Group of Three.
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2006 Southeastern Pennsylvania Alpaca Show SEPA (Level III, 20 grey males, Tim Lavan)
¨
1st
Place/12, 2006 AOBA National Show (Level V, Jude Anderson)
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2006 PAOBA Breeder's Showcase (Level
IV,
33 grey males, Wade Gease)
¨ 2nd
Place &
Reserve
Color Champion,
2006 MAPACA Eastern Alpaca Jubilee (Level V, 71 grey males!!!, Wade Gease)
¨
1st
Place/11, 2006 North American (Level V, Mike Safley). Comments: beautiful fleece,
cauliflower / popcorn fleece, kind of alpaca when born wish it was a male,
reminds of larger grey female shown yesterday - both have excellent fleeces,
very typey - nice to see in a grey. (The larger grey female Mike was
referring to was A.L. Paca's Rose to the Occasion).
¨
1st
Place &
Color Champion,
2006 Southern Select (Level III, 36 grey males, Amanda VandenBosch). The was his first show at just 8 months of age.
Comments: When did grey's get as nice as lights?
Revolution's
fleece has been repeatedly noted to
exhibit significant density with excellent consistency from top knot to
hip and a very soft hand. The fleece has a high frequency, deeply
corrugated crimp style. In addition to his density, his other most
significant fleece quality is his brightness as the fleece just about
sparkles.
His show career has been stellar! Even before 11 months of age he had
already won 3 color championships. Now at nearly five years of age, the handle to
his fleece remains soft and his brightness still exemplary so we expect
to see him continuing to do well in the ring before he is
finally retired to our stud pen.
We believed that Revolution was to become one of the most pre-potent grey males
around, and his
progeny are in the process of proving
this
true. We specifically selected Revolution's sire based on his well regarded
reliability. Snowmass Casanova won the coveted Futurity Herd Sire of
the Year due to the consistent quality of his get. Then, in a following
year, one of his sons, Snowmass Nova, followed in the footsteps of his
father and similarly won Futurity Herd Sire of the Year.
Revolution's dam, 4-time Color Champion,
A.L. Paca's Adora Mora Yu, is out of
our most pre-potent colored blood lines. Adora and her mother,
DFA Coco have produced one
champion winning cria after another for
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