King of the Ladies comes with a story, a story of fate, a story that lends credence to the thought that things happen for a reason.  Of course if you are not in mood for a story you may choose to skip to the second paragraph.  It all started at the 2003 North American Alpaca Show.  We sat down with our good friends Ian and Jennifer Lutz of Cas Cad Nac Farm to see what they had for sale.  Jen suggested an awesome female named Abigail Williams and she was due to give birth to a Legacy Gold cria in about 2 weeks.  We thought long and hard about purchasing her but when it came right down to it we just couldn't pull it together financially.   Of course 2 weeks later Archangel was born and years worth of razzing at our expense began.  Later that year we did purchase a top flight female named Snowmass Bell from CCNF for our children's herd, TKO Alpacas.  Bell was a female with a who's who of alpacas behind her and she was bred to Supernova.   Thankfully Bell gave us a little girl that our 4 year old daughter quickly named Cinderella.  Skip forward a couple of years now,  the opportunity suddenly presented itself to do an Archangel breeding, these were far and few between and I excitedly called Ian and asked him who I should send up.  Without reservation he suggested Cinderella, once he mentioned her we decided she really was a no brainer.  Cinderella gave us the opportunity to stack the proverbial deck in our favor, with so many Alpaca Legends in her pedigree we hoped and prayed for a male cria.  This is where the fate part comes into play.  On June 4, 2008 the finest cria ever born on our farm hit the ground and became an instant classic.  He has grown so much to be like his incredible sire in so many ways, it could only mean the gods have been watching us.  We missed our opportunity to get dad but we got the next best thing, an awesome son.  We had originally named him something like High Octane or Diesel or some high performance name and then one day I was doing chores in the barn listening to the newest Extreme disc and a song came on named King of the Ladies (It is the song currently playing on this page so if you can't hear it turn up your speakers).  Since Pat Badger was a member of the band Extreme, at that point a co-owner of Archangel and a great friend we decided that King of the Ladies was the perfect name for our Arch boy.  So now you have the story of how "Kinger" as we call him for short came to be.

Now let's talk about what makes King of the Ladies so special in our eyes.  We think he is complete in every way.   Fiber:  Amazingly soft (16 microns) combined with a very high level of density.  The combining of these two traits makes him very special to us but thankfully his positive fiber traits don't end there.  Kinger has a very long, super organized staple,  that displays blinding brightness and high amplitude, high frequency crimp that carries to all corners of his body.  When push comes to shove we absolutely feel safe saying Kinger possesses an elite fleece.  Frame:   Very solid, square and balanced.   He has a phenotype that is very pleasing to the eye, big boned, well covered, spectacular head while topping confirmation off with a correct bite.  He is just an all around solid specimen.

This all comes as no surprise considering King of the Ladies lineage that's fit for a King, although we all know livestock breeding is always a roll of the dice and a little luck.  King of the Ladies has a ton of big name alpacas in his background.  CCNF Archangel, 4P Legacy, Snowmass Legacy Gold, 3P Mr. President, 3PAugusto, 3PRoyal Fawn, 3PGrand Master, 3P Lilly, Royal Peruvian Apollo, Supernova, Peruvian Snowmaster and 3P Pachelbel.  This list includes some of the most influential sires and dam's in our countries alpaca history.  It is this history that has heaped the quality into Kinger and would be worth your roll of the dice as well with a breeding to TKO's King of the Ladies.

Kinger has now retired to a life of luxury servicing the dams of both Hilltop Alpacas and Cas Cad Nac Alpacas.  Oh by the way, I forgot to mention that, in extreme twist of fate our great friends Ian and Jen thought so much of Kinger and his lineage that they have purchased half of him and we are so excited and proud to have them on board.   Before his retirement he ripped up the ring winning just about every huge award he could before it was all said and done including 10 championships, 3 Judge's Choice Awards and the pinnacle, the white male color champ at the Futurity.  In our opinion it doesn't get any better then that!