Grannus, if you could would you breed to him?

wowie, I just knew from ur original question, that the answer was gonna be that u had got semen or knew a source.

I have not picked daddies for 2009 yet ? very interesting !!!

If i thought he was suitable to my mares & the price was right, well maybe ??
 
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Don't know which horse you have been reading the history of but this is Grannus, a legend, he is the type of horse I dream to breed. My all time favourite horse.

Grannus - not just a name but a symbol, a trademark. A symbol of a potent individual with an aura only a very few are blessed with.
With a lifetime total of well over five million DM so far, the off-spring of this glossy black Hanoverian stallion which include seven Olympic horses and more than 60 approved stallions, have made him one of the greatest sires in the world. Just as powerful as his inheritance is, his end was just as spectacular. In full view of several thousand spectators at Klatte's 1993 Stallion Presentation in Vechta, the heart of the Oldenburg breeding area, the 21 year old muscle man suddenly fell to the ground - the last breath of an equine personality seldom seen.

http://www.horse-gate.com/grannus/index_story_en.html

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http://www.greenacres-stud.com/grannus.htm

this is where i read up about him , don,t get me wrong i think he was a superb stallion , it was the grading that i was picking up on really , he didnt score fantastic marks and yet he became a fantastic stallion , so do we pay a fortune for a horse whoes grading isnt superlative? or do we go on breeding only? or proven performance when selecting a horse to breed from or compete
 
Jane, stop fishing!
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Maggiehorse - regardless of grading results (bearing in mind he died 15 yrs ago and gradings in his day were very different to today) you cannot argue, not only with this horse's achievements himself but also with his resulting progeny and there progeny in turn, including one of my favourites...Top Gun...As cruiseline said, this horse is one of the greats and indeed is a legend! You can't really compare breeding a horse to him to breeding to any young ungraded stallion as he is in a different league and came from a time when gradings, etc weren't as strongly viewed and regarded as they are today...:)
 
this is the thing, although he was a great stallion and produced horses that competed in the olympics and great sons, his main influence that still shines through today is the amount of good mares that he left. this is an opportunity for british breeding to use a great stallion as a stepping stone and improve stocks as he did in the past.
 
I don't think Maggiehorse is doubting Grannus's superiority, especially as a broodmare sires for jumper breeding, she's only musing that it proves not only is grading not the be all and end all from a breeders perspective but that greatness takes time to come out. This is an opportunity that's got you all talking specifically because it's so rare to get a direct line to a horse that's already proven its greatness.

Then again, I know someone with a 6 year old Ramiro that's nothing special and was dissed by the Han. inspection chief, but a 5 year old sister who graded fantastically and is winning everything in her age classes. Goes to show you never can tell.
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thankies tarr steps that is what i was trying to say , i hear so much about great producing great and the high profile of gradings that i was simply wondering if this is the be all and end all of trying to judge the future stars
 
he died in 1993 at the klatte stallion presentation, this is how it is described on horse-gate

''Bursting with energy and whinnying imperiously, he pranced into the arena. Grannus seemed to know it was his farewell parade - and he knew what was expected of him. So he set himself in scene and challenged the spectators to clap. "Another round" the people cried.
"I felt kind of bad", says Gisela Klatte, remembering Grannus' last minutes. I kept thinking, "poor old stallion - so much stress". And as if she were reading his mind - on his way out he started to falter, stumbled, fell as if he had been hit by lightening and was immediately dead. Grannus' last breath was taken in front of 4,000 spectators and within seconds he had become an unforgettable legend.''
 
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