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Tuscan Boys win Sires Progeny

2010 Western Australian Colourbration Alpaca Show Results - Judge Bill Robbins

Supreme Champion Roan Huacaya - Rivergum Rise La Trobe.

Supreme Champion Grey Huacaya - Rivergum Rise Shalimar

Supreme Champion Brown Huacaya - Rivergum Rise Golden Girl

Supreme Champion Grey Huacaya Fleece - Rivergum Rise Shalimar

Champion Grey Huacaya Male - Rivergum Rise Dominion (Now available for matings)

First Place Med/Dark Fawn Huacaya Sires Progeny - Eringa Park Tuscan (photo left)

Rivergum Rise win 26 fleece awards from 31 fleeces exhibited.

Anne & Darryl Sherman of Rivergum Rise Alpaca Stud in Corrigin were delighted to win three consecutive Supreme Championship awards at the largest ever alpaca show held in WA.  The awards included a clean sweep of the grey huacaya alpaca awards winning Champion Grey Female, Champion Grey Male, Supreme Champion Grey and Supreme Champion Grey Fleece.  This was capped of with Supreme Champion Roan and Supreme Champion Brown awards.  The stud’s top stud male, Eringa Park Tuscan also won the medium/dark fawn sires progeny competition.  Anne and Darryl took away a total of 4 Supreme Championships, 4 Championships, 15 firsts, 14 seconds and 12 thirds and would like to congratulate their clients who also had a marvelous show – well done.

Full results for Rivergum Rise with more pictures will be updated shortly (24/7/2009).

 

Highlights of our 2009 Perth Royal Show Results
HUACAYA FLEECE SHOW RESULTS
12-18 Months White/Light Fawn

First  -  Rivergum Rise Sinbad

Second  -  Rivergum Rise Mariah

12-18 Months Mid/Dark Fawn

Second  -  Rivergum Rise Tuppence

Third - Rivergum Rise Reconnaisance

CHAMPION 12-18 Months  -  Rivergum Rise Sinbad

RESERVE CHAMPION 12-18 Months  -  Rivergum Rise Mariah
18-30 Months Mid/Dark Fawn

Third  -  Rivergum Rise Katie
30-48 Months White/Light Fawn

Third  -  Lawithick Bensley

30-48 Months Mid/Dark Fawn

Second  -  Rivergum Rise Temptation
48-60 Months White/Light Fawn

Second  -  Eringa Park Tuscan

RESERVE CHAMPION 48-60 Months  -  Eringa Park Tuscan
60+ Months Mid/Dark Fawn

First  -  Barrabinda Desert Star

Second  -  Wangoom Fiona

CHAMPION 60+ Months  -  Barrabinda Desert Star

RESERVE CHAMPION 60+ Months  -  Wangoom Fiona
SUPREME CHAMPION HUACAYA FLEECE  -  Rivergum Rise Sinbad
SHOWRING RESULTS
Huacaya

Section 2 6-12 Months Male Fawn Mid/Dark

First - Rivergum Rise Rajah

 

Section 4 12-18 Months Male Fawn Mid/Dark

Second  -  Rivergum Rise Gypsy Twist

 

Section 5 18-30 Months Female Fawn

Third  -  Rivergum Rise Tsarina

 
Section 5 18-30 Months Female Black

Second  -  Rivergum Rise Evening Rose
Section 6 18-30 Months Male Brown

First  -  Rivergum Rise Aramis

Second - Rivergum Rise Stoker

 

Section 7 30-48 Months Female Fawn

First  -  Rivergum Rise Rhythm

 

Section 8 30-48 Months Male Black

Second  -  Strathalbyn Black Heart
Section 10 48+ Months Male Fawn

First  -  Eringa Park Tuscan
Section 10 48+ Months Male Fawn Mid/Dark

First  -  Barrabinda Desert Star
Section 10 48+ Months Male

Reserve Champion  -  Eringa Park Tuscan
Section 20 Suri 6-12 Months Female Fawn

First  -  Rivergum Rise Windflower
 

The Rivergum Rise Show Team for 2009 Whiteman Park Alpaca Show
                Sultan                                Intrepid                      Dream Spinner              Reconnaissance                              Floyd                                  Stoker                                     Jabiru                                  Taha
                2nd                                       4th                                   2nd                                3rd                                                                                      1st                                         2nd

Highlights of our 2008 Perth Royal Show Results

 


Eringa Park Tuscan Champion Mature Male being paraded by Anne Sherman - Rivergum Rise
Reserve Champion Cambridge Hyperion  being paraded by Paul Robb - Amphora Park Alpacas
Also pictured is Somerset Accoyo Challenger being paraded by Sophie Jackson of Banksia Park Alpacas
 


Rivergum Rise Tipu - 1st place Mature Black Male - Awarded Best Black in Show

Rivergum Rise Rhythm - Reserve Champion Senior Female being paraded for Rivergum Rise by Diana Jones of Aintree Alpacas
 

 
Barrabinda Desert Star - 2nd place Mature Fawn Male being paraded by Darryl Sherman Rivergum Rise.

Desert Star's 2007 fleece was also awarded Champion Fleece 48 to under 60 months.


Rivergum Rise Black Beauty - 1st place Senior Black Female




Rivergum Rise Scholar was awarded Reserve Champion Fleece 30 to under 48 months.

Rivergum Rise - Alpaca Basics Course

This popular course is ideal if you're new in alpacas, thinking of getting started or you are an experienced breeder seeking tips on business and breeding strategies.

Call Anne & Darryl on (08)9062 9027 for details or email rivergum@rivergumrise.com.au

 

Mobile Matings

Currently operating in and around the Perth area and throughout the South West.

Give us a call (9062 9027) or drop us an email for drive-by matings - ALL AREAS. rivergum@rivergumrise.com.au

Herd Guards

We have sold over 400 alpaca herd guards in WA. ... details ...

Rent-a-Fox-Guard New service now available

 

Rivergum Rise Collection
of
Tops & Yarn
from the best in our herd

White, Fawn, Brown, Grey, Rose Grey & Black
FREE postage within Australia.

... details ...

 

Summer 2006/7

Settling into 500 broad wheatbelt acres just west of Corrigin with room for our 350 alpacas to move and graze.

Wheatbelt country has excellent soils with ideal mineral content for alpacas - no more selenium injections!

 

 

A typical summer sunset in the wheatbelt.  Angoras in "goat city".
May, 2007

Rivergum Rise work with Suncloud Farm and Elders Breeding Services to run the first commercial auction of alpacas in Western Australia.

The day is successful with over 90 attendees including bidders from NZ, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

 
Feeding 400 alpacas - wheatbelt style - using a bulk sheep trail feeder.

 

 

Snapshots of 2006
July 16th - Rivergum Rise run the first ever Alpaca Basics for Beginners Course.

More than 60 new and prospective breeders attend a day jam packed with information, fun, fine food and lots of hands on alpaca activities.
Rivergum Rise Temptation wins first place in Junior Fawn Female at the 2006 Fairbridge Village Alpaca Show.
Rivergum Rise Temptation wins Champion Junior Female at the 2006 Fairbridge Village Alpaca Show.
Rivergum Rise Zeus wins first place in Adult Black Male at the 2006 Fairbridge Village Alpaca Show.
Eringa Park Tuscan wins:

o Senior Champion Male
o Supreme Champion Fleece

at the 2006 Fairbridge Village Alpaca Show
Rivergum Rise Jacomo wins Champion Junior Male Suri at the 2006 Perth Royal Show.
Rivergum Rise Temptation wins Reserve Champion Junior Female at the 2006 Perth Royal Show.
Eringa Park Tuscan wins Reserve Champion Senior Male at the 2006 Perth Royal Show.
Eringa Park Tuscan wins Supreme Champion Huacaya Fleece at the 2006 Perth Royal Show.
Rivergum Rise Temptation wins first place in Junior Fawn Female at the 2006 National Alpaca Show in Canberra.
November 2006

Rivergum Rise relocates to the heart of the Western Australian wheatbelt in Corrigin, W.A.