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This
beautiful, MAPACA fleece Champion is the daughter of Champion pinto herdsire, Peruvian
Maverick, and our MaPaca blue ribbon-winning pinto, Fiona. She is also half
sister to the 2005 Virginia Classic brown female Champion, Thistledown's
Myfanwy.
Nola is a rare, 7/8 Peruvian brown, black and white
"tricolor" - her head, neck, body and back legs are brown, her
nose, ears, eyes and gums are black, and her front legs are white, with
little brown shoes on each front foot and spots on her knees. VERY cute!
She also has two full Peruvian black grandparents (Peruvian Matador and
Black Jack Jax sired by 4Peruvian Black Magic). Nola
is one of the most gentle, even-tempered alpacas we have ever owned. Her
name means
"famous" and is also a pet form of
the Irish name Fionnghuala. Nola is absolutely covered
with crimpy, dense, lustrous fiber, and just brimming over with presence and style!
She was rebred with our true
black full Peruvian Champion, Knightrider,
in Spring 2008.
Awards:
In her first showring appearance, Nola placed 2nd in a halter class of
multi females at the 2006 Virginia Classic, against primarily fawn and
white alpacas! Judge, Shannon McConnell, commented that all the females in
the class had very similar crimp and lock structure, regardless of color.
Jill McCloud awarded Nola's juvenile fleece a blue ribbon in the 2006
PAOBA fleece show. Nola won another blue ribbon at the 2006 Virginia State
Fair Alpaca Show, which had over 100 entries. Jane Tellier awarded Nola
second place in the halter class at the 2006 VAOBA Alpaca Expo, a Level
III AOBA-Certified Show, and her fiber won a blue ribbon in the SpinOff at
this show. The judge, Cathy Songer, who has over 20 years of spinning
experience and has judged at AOBA Nationals and regularly judges the
Virginia Classic SpinOff, commented that Nola's fiber was, "one of
the nicest fibers I've ever spun" and awarded her 97.5 points out of
100! Nola won another blue ribbon for her fiber in the SpinOff competition
at the 2006 Mid-America Alpaca Show, a second place ribbon out of 15 entries
at National level in the 2006 Fiber to Fashion SpinOff, a second place
in the OABA 2006 SpinOff and another blue ribbon in the 2007 Virginia
Classic SpinOff competition. In 2007, Nola won the Championship and a blue
ribbon for her fleece at the MAPACA Jubilee, and another blue ribbon in
the AOBA National SpinOff competition. In 2008, she placed second in the
fleece show at MAPACA 2008, the largest alpaca show in the US.
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