2023 has just left us breathless! Sable breeders really pulled it together to keep our breed eligible for future ADGA National Shows! As Nationals returned to the western states, I made the trip to Redmond, Oregon with one senior doe and four junior does. I met up and spent the week with good friends Kim and Danny Moore of Thunder Ridge Nubians. Sables and Lamanchas kicked off the National show with junior doe shows. The three doe kids showed well placing top ten in their class. The senior yearling was second in her class and I was absolutely thrilled to be standing in the Championship lineup! My heart may or may not have skipped a beat when Cherry Butte NHG Fashionista was named the 2023 ADGA Reserve National Champion Junior Sable Doe! The most thrilling part of the win was doing it with a doe that we bred and raised, fit and walked around the ring. She is back to enjoying herself - wandering from field to filed, frolicing in the dirt and picking on her little sisters - oh - and she just spent a few days with our junior herdsire - an AI grandson of two-time National Champion Grande Ronde AC Chocolate Chip - stay tuned . . .