"Great Divide" Our senior stud, "Great Divide", Luxford 03-1131A. At 8 1/2 years of age, he still is a massive stud! We can't say enough about this ram and the impact that he has made on the flock. He throws exciting lambs that are correct & well balanced with a great pattern to them. They grow into powerful yearlings! Great Divide" sired our $8,500 stud buck that sold at the Nugget All American in Reno in '06 and sired our 3rd place, Class 2 ram at Reno as well as our 4th and 6th place ewes at Reno that year. He also sired the Reserve Senior Champion Ram for Ansel at Reno in 2005. He is also the grandsire to "Mule Train", the ram we bred & sold at the National Suffolk Sale in Reno in 2007 for $3,500 and to "Ticket to Ride", the "Burlington Northern" son that we sold for $2,000 during Reno. He is also the grandsire to our Reserve Grand Champion Ram at the 2008 Nugget All American in Reno, to our GRAND CHAMPION RAM at the Nugget All American in 2009, to 'Yukon Gold', our $4500 stud at Reno in 2010, to our 2011 RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM at Reno.  He is also the sire to several other high placing rams and ewes.  "Great Divide" is extremely versatile in that he is a ram that can produce both top show sheep and quality ram sires that the commercial producer and range producer can appreciate and utilize.    We have retained several daughters. Photo shows "Great Divide" in extremely short fleece.  He is a consistent breeder, settles every ewe the first time, every time and we like his 2011 lambs just as well as we liked his first lamb crop in 2005.  This buck is a true stud's stud.  GREAT DIVIDE IS ONCE AGAIN ON THE BREEDING DOCKET FOR 2011 TO SIRE 2012 LAMBS AT 8 1/2 YEARS OF AGE!  We love this classy old stud!	"Great Divide" At 8 1/2 years of age, Great Divide (or "Roy" as we affectionately call him around the barn) is a proven stud ram siring champion quality offspring. His pedigree traces to some great sheep of the past, including "Duke", the dam of "Blue Boy" and some of Ansel's great females. He measures 42"x45" and tips the scales at 451 lbs.  We are planning on putting Roy on the breeding docket for the 2011 breeding season. His lambs are always of high quality, his daughters are wonderful mothers and his sons are powerful stud prospects. 'Roy' has extreme longevity, especially for a big buck and is passing that onto his progeny.  We rarely let any of his daughters leave the flock!  "Great Divide" pictured here at 8+ years of age. He is still producing some outstanding progeny for us and we are looking forward to his 7th crop of lambs for us in 2012.  This old gent not only produces some very good sheep but he breeds on and puts longevity in his progeny!  He will be 9 years of age at the end of Feb. 2012 and is still going strong!
~ "YUKON JACK", LUXFORD 07-1311~    This stud hails from Ansel's top stud & ewe line. Mass, size & scale, pattern, pedigree, structural correctness and an extra shot of length are some of the things that this stud brings to the table. He is a solid piece of genetic material. He has sired some very impressive progeny for us in his first and second season of work for us.  Photo shows 'Jack' in his winter working clothes.  Make no mistake about it, he is a huge stud ram with some genetic power behind him!  UPDATE: Yukon Jack sired "Jack of Diamonds', the Reserve Grand Champion Ram at Reno in 2011, "Gentleman Jack", our 1st place ram, Class 1 at Reno in 2011, "Yukon Gold", the powerful stud ram that stood 2nd to the champion ram in Reno in 2010 (sold for $4500) along with our popular and beautiful yearling ewes!  "Jack" puts a powerful nick on to the strong set of "Great Divide", "Saddle Tramp" & "LAWMAN" females in our flock.  We are also using 2 top sons in our breeding program.  Look for progeny out of this great stud in 2012!	The Lost Photo Below:  I recently found this photo of "YUKON JACK" (Yukon) on the digital picture file on my old camera.  It was dated May 08 so "Jack" is 14 mos. of age in this photo.  The photo must've been impaired in some way as I could not get it to download properly for a full picture but one can see most of it.  He has been an interesting breeding piece and has produced some stellar lambs.
~ Reference Sires ~	"Double Shot of Jack" A top stud son of "Yukon Jack" is a tremendous individual with mass, dimension, bone, correctness, big top and great hip (pictured above).   UPDATE:  'Double Shot' has sired some awesome lambs for us in 2011.  He gave us ewe lambs only this year and they are amazing!  Gorgeous, flashy and yet carry enough physique to become great mothers when the time comes.  Dan thinks that 'Double Shot's' daughters are potentially the best in the pen this year and that's saying something because I think it's a very strong set of ewe lambs this go 'round.  It will be exciting to watch them as they hit their yearling run in 2012!  Owned jointly with Pumphrey Suffolks, Wa.   "Saddle Tramp" Luxford 1256A, the 2006 addition to the stud pen. This RR stud brings some interesting things to the table. He is thick made, upfronted & correct and hails from Ansel's best stud ram and ewe family! His paternal grandsire is Gamble/Bracco 89, who was sired by "X-Centric", Gamble 9118. Used to compliment the qualities exhibited by our "Great Divide" daughters, he was also bred to "Maverick" & "Barn BuRRner" daughters as well. He sired some fabulous progeny for us that are extremely long with clean beautiful patterns, correct, good boned and naturally thick. "Saddle Tramp" sired our Reserve Grand Champion Ram at the '08 Nugget All American in Reno as well as our 3rd place, Class 3 yearling ram. We lost "Tramp" to poisonous plants (death camas) consumption but his legacy will live on in the flock through his daughters.
"Lightning Bolt", Prairie Rose 5355-2 This ranch raised stud, a son of "Strictly Business", Luxford 1234A and Prairie Rose 355, exemplifies the depth of quality that we are striving for in our breeding program. This stud has the correctness, depth of body, spring of rib, natural thickness, balance and breed character that we like to see in a stud buck. Unfortunately, Lightning broke his jaw in a freak accident, so we lost him in 2008. His legacy lives on through his daughters that have been retained in the flock.	"LAWMAN" Sired by "Gun Fighter", the Lost River stud that produced so many great sheep for Pleasant Valley Suffolks. His grandsire is "Gun Slinger", the massive Wilt stud that was lead stud at Lost River Livestock a few years ago. This buck stamped his lambs with natural thickness, spring of rib, depth of body and ease of fleshing. We truly appreciate these qualities, especially in our brood ewes. We sold this stud in the summer of 2008 only to bring in the new Luxford stud, "Yukon Jack".  We have an outstanding group of daughters in the flock.  UPDATE*** "LAWMAN" sired our massive Grand Champion Ram in 2009 at the Nugget All American in Reno!!!
"Shanghai Noon"   He is sired by Luxford 1230A, who is a "Chief Justice" son & is dammed by a "Gun Fighter" daughter who is a half sister to "LAWMAN", the stud who sired our 2009 Grand Champion Ram @ Reno.  He was a very positive breeding piece!   He grew into quite a large ram with depth of body, decent bone, a good hip, great length and overall thickness, not to mention classic Suffolk character with an outstanding head and earset that he passed on to his offspring.  He was a very strong breeder exhibiting excellent libido.  He threw a super set of lambs for us in 2010 and 2011.  We are keeping several daughters.  We sold "Shanghai" in 2010 because we thought we had another ram purchased but that deal fell through.  We have some very good replacement females out of him UPDATE:  "Shanghai Noon" sired our popular and high selling ram lamb at the Newell Ram Sale as well as some high priced pens of range ram lambs.  He also sired our g-niece's Supreme Champion Ewe (as a ewe lamb) here in Montana, as well as her Reserve Supreme Champion Ram (as a ram lamb & 2nd only to her Supreme Champion Ram, a Yukon Jack son).