April 2010 Newsletter


The 9th Annual Canadian National Sale and Futurity is only 10 days away. So far, we have 243 futurity entries, representing 66 herdsires and 70 farms. They will be competing for approx $70,000 in prize money awarded by our judges, Kathy Klay from the US and Rick Hodgson from Australia.

This will be our 2nd year in the Agricentre East, just south of the Stockman's arena. There is plenty of parking and access to the stalling area on the east and south sides. Trailer parking is on the south side and the main entrance is on the north side.

The Herdsire Calcutta is now a part of the CNASF weekend. Prior to the start of the Futurity, we are giving all participants a chance to bet on who they think will be the Herdsire of our Colour Champions and Supreme Champion. Some of the bets will be in the form of a Silent Auction and some will be available in blind envelopes. Look for more info at the Welcome Booth.

The BEST HANDLE Class, decided by a blind-folded judge, is back for a third year!! It should be fun.

Please note: All alpacas entered in the futurity MUST have their CLAA registration complete by Show date. The barn will be open for animals on Thursday afternoon and can arrive as late as Friday afternoon at 3:00pm


The CNASF Select Auction Sale April 17, 2010 7:00PM
Sale animals can be previewed on the website at www.cnalpaca.com/sale.htm 

Direct Livestock Marketing Systems is powering a live internet broadcast with real time bidding for our sale. To register for on-line bidding contact Mark Shologan at: 780-699-5082 or by e-mail: info@dlms.ca

If you are interested in telephone or Internet bidding, please contact John at (403)938-7639 prior to April 13, so we can help you with temporary boarding and alpaca transport if necessary.

We also offer the services of several certified judges who will be at the event and can give an evaluation of sale animals once they are on site.
Sale animals must be in their stalls for the vet check on Friday afternoon.

And don't forget the 2 Wild Card Entries in the Sale. If your juvenile male or female wins a 1st place ribbon on Saturday, you will be asked if you want to put that alpaca up for a chance at one of the Wild Card entries.


Seminars & Meals
The schedule of events for the Futurity Weekend is up on the website. Pre-registration and tickets are required for meals.

On-line registration for seminars and meals is available until April 14th at www.cnalpaca.com/schedule.htm with payments (by cheque or cash only) to be made at the Show Office in Red Deer.


Caps for Cancer!!
Alice Groeneveld is once again collecting donations of your hand-knit Alpaca hats or alpaca yarn that she will have knit into hats for recovering cancer patients. Please consider helping her out in this very worthy cause!!


We are looking forward to a great weekend. See you all in 2 weeks.

John & Val MacLeod
www.cnalpaca.com
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