Willowbrook Alpacas
 

Show Success

Due to bio-security concerns surrounding halter shows, we made the decision to only enter fleece shows in 2010 and 2011 where the risk of disease transmission is zero. Since then however, with improved, and now very good bio-security controls in place, we have commenced halter showing. The alpaca is bred for fleece production so it is essential to continue to concentrate on improving fleece quality and quantity. Competing at fleece shows, or halter events, is one effective means to assess how your herd breeding programme is progressing, judged in an independent environment against fellow breeders - it can also be great fun!

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Willowbrook Inferno

Description: 

Willowbrook Alpacas Inferno is a truly exceptional solid dark fawn macho. He is true to type, and stands on a very correct frame, with a deep broad chest and strong bone structure. With an enviable and proven pedigree, his sire is the Supreme Champion ‘Valley Alpacas The Diplomat’, and his dam is ‘Willowbrook Truffle’; a Brown Colour Champion and daughter of ‘Snowmass Sizlin Hot’. Inferno really is an outstanding male. His fleece is not only incredibly dense, but it is also fine, and exhibits uniformity in both colour and character. It is well organised, and aligned into bright, tightly crimped staples. The icing on the cake is that Inferno has the most delightful nature. He is full of personality, and his lovely temperament makes him an absolute charm!

D.O.B:

04/07/2016

Sire: 

Valley Alpacas The Diplomat (bloodlines include the renowned EP Cambridge Peruvian Caesar, EP Cambridge Peruvian Spartacus, and Jolimont Conquistador)

Dam:

Willowbrook Truffle (bloodlines include Snowmass, Canchones Discovery of Cambridge, and Accoyo Killawasi)

Willowbrook Inferno   Willowbrook Inferno Fleece

Show Results:

1st Intermediate Fawn Male - North Somerset Show - 7th May 2018

Reserve Champion Fawn Male - North Somerset Show - 7th May 2018

1st Intermediate Fawn Male - Midlands Show/West Shires - 11th November 2017

Champion Fawn Male - Midlands Show/West Shires - 11th November 2017

Judge:

Rob Bettinson

Matthew Lloyd

 

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Willowbrook Bucks Fizz

Description: 

Daughter of the illustrious Snowmass male Sizlin Hot, and our own multi Champion black female Willowbrook Mimi. Bucks Fizz carries a fleece that not only demonstrates great density and high uniformity well into her extremities, but it is also very fine and bright, with a distinct lack of guard hair. The character displayed by her fleece is of a high frequency, high amplitude, highly defined, pretty crimp style. Another beautiful and elegant female, with the most endearing disposition!

D.O.B:

13/09/2016

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Mimi (bloodlines include Cambridge Buckingham, NWA Ltd Ruffo (Aust.), Jolimont Commisario (Aust.), Coricancha Fernando of Wessex and Purrumbete Ledgers Dream (Aust.))

Willowbrook Bucks Fizz - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

1st Intermediate Fawn Female - North Somerset Show - 7th May 2018

Champion Fawn Female - North Somerset Show - 7th May 2018

Judge:

Rob Bettinson

 

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Willowbrook Tooty Frooty

Description: 

A real favourite! Willowbrook Alpacas Tooty Frooty is a simply stunning, solid mid fawn daughter of Snowmass Sizlin Hot. Her fleece is very dense, but it is also very fine. Each staple is long, with a well defined, high frequency crimp style which extends right to the tip. Her fleece is also very uniform in all respects of colour, character, and fineness. These positive traits are not confined to her blanket, but continue well into her extremities. The brightness of her delightful golden coloured fleece, only adds to the beautiful soft handle. Combine this with her perfect compact conformation, lovely temperament, and very desirable head type, you can see why I am smitten!

D.O.B:

23/09/2014

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Alice (bloodlines include Quetchuan Frottle of Arunvale and Accoyo Killawasi)

Willowbrook Tooty Frooty    Willowbrook Tooty Frooty Fleece

Show Results:

1st Intermediate Fawn Fleece - Eastern Regional Group Fleece Show - 29th-30th July 2016

1st Intermediate Fawn Female - Royal Bath and West Show - 3rd June 2016

Reserve Champion Fawn Female - Royal Bath and West Show - 3rd June 2016

Judge:

Rob Bettinson

Jay Holland

 

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Willowbrook Finesse

Description: 

A solid dark brown daughter of our home bred stud male Willowbrook Gold Rush. Finesse has perfect compact conformation, and the most beautiful head type. Her fleece is both dense and fine, with a high frequency crimp that runs to the tip of each staple. She also has great fleece coverage as is evident in the photograph below!

D.O.B:

29/08/2015

Sire: 

Willowbrook Gold Rush (bloodlines include the renowned EP Cambridge Peruvian Spartacus and Accoyo Killawasi)

Dam:

Willowbrook Midnight (bloodlines include Snowmass Sizlin Hot and Canchones Witness)

Willowbrook Finesse    Willowbrook Finesse

Show Results:

1st Junior Brown Female - Royal Bath and West Show - 3rd June 2016

Judge:

Rob Bettinson

 

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Willowbrook Treacle

Description: 

A lovely female displaying all the positive fleece traits of her sire Snowmass Sizlin Hot. Strong boned, with great conformation, and a wonderful true-to type head. Exhibiting a dense, fine, organised and uniform fleece, on a gentle and easy to handle alpaca

D.O.B:

21/09/2014

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Mystique (bloodlines include Lillyfield Jack of Spades, Commisario, and Ruffo)

Willowbrook Treacle    Treacle's beautiful fleece!

Show Results:

2nd Intermediate Brown Female - Bath and West Show June 3rd 2016

Reserve Champion Brown Female - Bath and West Show 3rd June 2016

Judge:

Rob Bettinson

 

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Willowbrook Truffle

Description: 

The complete package! Very uniform in colour, fineness and character. Remarkably dense and bright. Highly organised fleece with a high frequency, high amplitude crimp style, on a perfectly conformed animal

D.O.B:

09/07/2014

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Chocolate (bloodlines include Canchones Discovery of Cambridge and Accoyo Killawasi)


Willowbrook Truffle    Truffle's fantastic fleece!

Show Results:

1st Junior Brown Fleece - Royal Three Counties Fleece Show 17th-19th June 2016

1st Junior Brown Fleece - Heart of England Fleece Show 27th October 2015 - Class size 12 (largest fleece show in Europe, with 240 of the industry's best fleeces competing!)

1st Junior Brown Female - North Somerset Halter Show 4th May 2015

Champion Brown Female - North Somerset Halter Show 4th May 2015

Judge:

Tim Hey

Nick Harrington-Smith

Jay Holland

Liz Barlow

Val Fullerlove

 

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Willowbrook Midnight Mystery

Description: 

A beautiful and gentle female who performed very well in the show ring in 2014 as a junior. She has continued this success into 2015 and 2016 as an intermediate and adult. Her fleece is very fine, very bright, dense, and wonderfully organised into small pencil type staples. Midnight's dam was sired by Canchones Witness of Inca, and her sire is our outstanding male Snowmass Sizlin Hot. The proof of a male's success is in his progeny, and year after year, Sizlin Hot has not failed to impress at the largest and most competitive shows! Amongst his most recent progeny successes is 1st place Intermediate Black fleece, and Champion Black Fleece at the Royal Three Counties 2016, and 1st Intermediate Fawn Fleece at the Eastern Regional Fleece Show 2016, won by Willowbrook Tooty Frooty!

D.O.B:

27/07/2013

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Black Velvet (bloodlines include Canchones Witness of Inca and Shafts Dream)


Willowbrook Midnight Mystery   Willowbrook Midnight Mystery

Show Results:

1st Intermediate Black Fleece - Royal Three Counties Fleece Show 17th-19th June 2016

Champion Black Fleece - Royal Three Counties Fleece Show 17th-19th June 2016

1st Adult Black Female - Bath and West Show 3rd June 2016

1st Intermediate Black Fleece - Heart of England Fleece Show 27th October 2015 - Class size 13 (largest fleece show in Europe, with 240 of the industry's best fleeces competing!)

1st Intermediate Black Female - North Somerset Halter Show 4th May 2015

1st Junior Black Female - North Somerset Halter Show 5th May 2014

1st Junior Black Female - Heart of England Fleece Show 3rd-5th October 2014

Judge:

Rob Bettinson

Tim Hey

Nick Harrington-Smith

Shirley Bettinson

Liz Barlow

Jay Holland

Val Fullerlove

 

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Willowbrook Sizlin's Secret Serenity

Description: 

A wonderful female with many show winning names to boast on both sides of her pedigree. Her dam was placed first in a very competitive class of 14 as a junior, and both Snowmass and Accoyo Killawasi need no introduction. Her fleece was described by the judge as extremely bright, exceptionally dense and fine, very uniform in all respects of character, colour and micron. Very strong boned and perfectly conformed

D.O.B:

13/06/2012

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Chocolate (bloodlines include Canchones Discovery of Cambridge and Accoyo Killawasi)


Willowbrook Sizlin's Secret Serenity - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas   Willowbrook Sizlin's Secret Serenity - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

2nd Intermediate Brown Fleece - Heart of England Fleece Show 3rd-5th October 2014

Reserve Champion Brown Fleece - Heart of England Fleece Show 3rd-5th October 2014 (Reserve Champion out of an enormous 36 brown fleeces!!)

1st Intermediate Brown Female - North Somerset Show 5th May 2014

Champion Brown Female - North Somerset Show 5th May 2014

1st Intermediate Brown Fleece - National Fleece Show 15th-16th March 2014

Champion Brown Fleece (80.5 points) - National Fleece Show 15th-16th March 2014

1st Intermediate Brown Fleece - Hope Fleece Show 26th August 2013

Champion Brown Fleece - Hope Fleece Show 26th August 2013

2nd Junior Brown Female - North Somerset Show 6th May 2013

Reserve Champion Brown Female - North Somerset Show 6th May 2013

Judges:

Mary-Jo Smith

Rob Bettinson

Dominic Lane

Shirley Bettinson

Liz Barlow

Jay Holland

 

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Willowbrook Revelation

Description: 

An impressive genetic lineage with many prize winning names on both sides of his pedigree. A very bright, very fine and uniform fleece, with a high frequency crimp style (approximately 8 crimps per inch) and excellent staple length. The colour is a rich chestnut that is uniform throughout, with a clear lack of coarser fibres and a very low transition line

D.O.B:

14/06/2011

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Poppy (bloodlines include The Golden Gun of ARU, Shafts Dream, Collabear Albert, Coricancha Fernando of Wessex and Purrumbete Ledgers Dream (Aust.))


Willowbrook Revelation - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas    Willowbrook Revelation - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

1st Junior Brown Male - North Somerset Show 7th May 2012

Reserve Champion Brown Male - North Somerset Show 7th May 2012

Judge:

Jay Holland

 

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Willowbrook Mimi

Description: 

A wonderfully soft and luxuriously handling fleece that displays a medium frequency, highly defined, high amplitude crimp style. It is very fine, and uniform in both length and micron. Brilliantly bright with a distinct lack of guard hair

D.O.B:

26/08/2010

Sire: 

Cambridge Buckingham (bloodlines include NWA Ltd Ruffo (Aust.) and Jolimont Commisario (Aust.))

Dam:

Dean Tosca (bloodlines include Coricancha Fernando of Wessex and Purrumbete Ledgers Dream (Aust.))


Willowbrook Mimi - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

1st Junior Black Fleece - Hope Fleece Show 29th August 2011

Champion Black Fleece - Hope Fleece Show 29th August 2011

1st Junior Black Fleece - Heart of England Autumn Fleece Show 2nd October 2011

Champion Black Fleece - Heart of England Autumn Fleece Show 2nd October 2011

1st Junior Black Fleece - Scottish National Fleece Show 12th November 2011

Champion Black Fleece - Scottish National Fleece Show 12th November 2011

Judges:

Nick Harrington-Smith

Val Fullerlove

Vicky Agar

Rob Bettinson

Jay Holland

 

Profile: 

Willowbrook Fleur

Description: 

A delightful fleece, that is fine, with very good uniformity of length and colour. Equally, the fleece displays excellent density and brightness, with a pleasing character and beautiful soft handle

D.O.B:

15/08/2010

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Atlantic Bevy


Willowbrook Fleur - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

1st Junior Fawn Fleece - Hope Fleece Show 29th August 2011

Champion Fawn Fleece - Hope Fleece Show 29th August 2011

2nd Junior Fawn Fleece - Scottish National Fleece Show 12th November 2011 (Class size 13)

Judges:

Nick Harrington-Smith

Rob Bettinson

Jay Holland

 

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Willowbrook Crusader

Description: 

Very fine, bright, dense and uniform fleece, with a high frequency, high amplitude crimp style running the length of each staple

D.O.B:

02/10/2009

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Alice (bloodlines include Quetchuan Frottle of Arunvale and Accoyo Killawasi)


Willowbrook Crusader - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

2nd Junior Brown Male Hope Fleece Show 30th August 2010

4th Junior Brown Male Heart of England Fleece Show 3rd October 2010 (Class size 12)

4th Junior Brown Male Scottish National Fleece Show 1st-5th November 2010

Judges:

Nick Harrington-Smith

Cameron Holt

 

Profile: 

Willowbrook Thunderbolt

Description: 

Fantastically fine, uniform and bright. Very dense with a beautiful soft handle and very few coarse fibres

D.O.B:

19/09/2009

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Atkins Charlotte (bloodlines include CP Accoyo Albus (Don Carlos) and CP Vladimir (Don Camillo))


Willowbrook Thunderbolt - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas    Willowbrook Thunderbolt - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

3rd Intermediate Fawn Huacaya Hope Fleece Show 29th August 2011

3rd Junior Brown Male Heart of England Fleece Show 3rd October 2010 (Class size 12)

5th Junior Brown Male Scottish National Fleece Show 1st-5th November 2010

Judges:

Nick Harrington-Smith

Cameron Holt

 

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Willowbrook Mustang

Description: 

Superfine and very dense fleece. Uniform colour and crimp style with very low levels of guard hair

D.O.B:

22/09/2009

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Collabear Ruby


Willowbrook Mustang - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas    

Show Results:

Highly Commended Junior Brown Male GWR Fleece Show 18th September 2010

Judge:

Dominic Lane

 

Profile: 

Willowbrook Heavenly Hot

Description: 

Fine, bright and dense fleece, with a high amplitude medium frequency crimp style. Excellent, and very consistent length

D.O.B:

03/09/2009

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Atlantic Bevy


Willowbrook Heavenly Hot - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas    Willowbrook Heavenly Hot - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

5th Junior Fawn Female Hope Fleece Show 30th August 2010

Judge:

Nick Harrington-Smith

 

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Willowbrook Poppy

Description: 

Rich chestnut colour. Exceptionally fine and bright with a medium frequency, medium amplitude crimp

D.O.B:

09/08/2009

Sire: 

Collabear Albert (bloodlines include Shafts Dream and the Golden Gun of Arunvale)

Dam:

Dean Tosca (bloodlines include Coricancha Fernando of Wessex)


Willowbrook Poppy - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas    Willowbrook Poppy - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

4th Junior Brown Female Hope Fleece Show 30th August 2010

Judge:

Nick Harrington-Smith

 

Profile: 

Willowbrook Commander

Description: 

Another very fine and bright fleece. Handles beautifully. Character high frequency, medium amplitude that is becoming visibly more defined as the second fleece develops

D.O.B:

12/10/2009

Sire: 

Snowmass Sizlin Hot (bloodlines include the renowned Peruvian Hemingway)

Dam:

Willowbrook Blaze (bloodlines include CP Accoyo Albus (Don Carlos))


Willowbrook Commander - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas    Willowbrook Commander - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

5th Junior Brown Male Hope Fleece Show 30th August 2010

Judge:

Nick Harrington-Smith

 

Hand spun skein

Show Results:

3rd hand spun 100% natural alpaca plain skein (British Alpaca Futurity 2009)

Judge:

Val Fullerlove

Unable to make the British Alpaca Futurity in person, I was pleased to hear that my fawn hand spun huacaya skein had been awarded third place in the newly created Alpaca Fibre Craft Competition at the British Alpaca Futurity 2009! When competing against some very experienced and proficient spinners I was delighted with the outcome!

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Willowbrook Chocolate

Description: 

Extremely bright, very dense, uniform, beautifully soft fleece, on a perfectly conformed animal

D.O.B:

19/09/2007

Sire: 

Canchones Discovery of Cambridge

Dam:

Collabear Cleopatra


Willowbrook Chocolate - 1st Junior Brown Female BAS Spring Show 29th/30th March 2008 - bred by Willowbrook Alpacas

Show Results:

1st Junior Brown Female BAS Spring Show 29/30th March 2008 (Class size 14)

Judges:

Nick Harrington-Smith
Ms Gaia Dakalo (Italy)

Due to temporary movement restrictions imposed by the arrival of blue tongue in the UK we were limited to the number of shows we could attend in 2008. The BAS Spring Show was the only event where we exhibited our alpacas in that year but we could not be more thrilled with the results!

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