This girl was born in the middle of a storm, found sitting in a puddle with the shelter roof runoff pouring over her head. She had such long fleece and she was so wet that we could not tell if she was a suri or a huacaya until we figured out who her dam was! While being dried, after she had warmed up, she started kicking and fight our efforts -- a really good showing of her fighting spirit. She continues to be an assertive girl. So, her name is a reflection of her notable start and impish nature. She comes up for her greeting when we are the paddock but sometimes when she is feeling impish, she frowns and starts to bluster like to spit - but then she 'peels off' to trot away when she catches your eye (you can almost hear the faerie laughter). These girls and their personalities!
When bred to Grand River Marquis, she produced a lovely, buttery soft classic medium silver grey girl that we have kept in our grey breeding program. The boys named her Umbreon for her lavender fleece.
The next breeding she produced a rock solid (can a cria be 'rooted to the ground'?) black male by Dauntless that is packing on lots of impressive fiber. The look of this boy! He is developing into a sturdy modern grey male, which we named Minotaur for his impressive "tree trunk" legs evident at birth.
When bred to Stradivarius she gave us a well developed true black girl we named Night Rain that has a nice crimp style, good staple and good coverage. We look forward to breeding her to one of our other black herdsires -- Maelstrom, Guinness or Secret.
Sprite was then bred to our other top shelf black male, Maelstrom, and produced a lovely true black girl, Siren Call. We have high hopes for at least breeding if not showing this one.
This year she has been bred for grey again with a pairing to one of our Quixotic sons, Trouble, who showed he could not just throw greys but ones with good coverage, and bright, crimpy fiber when he made our Rabble Rouser out of Totality. Fingers cross for this in a girl model from Sprite!