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Topic: K2 (Read 885 times)
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lpinson
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Re: K2
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2010, 12:33:25 AM » |
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Not sure if this is just a "bank" or not, but I found some information on the Gestuet Sprehe site...
http://www.gestuet-sprehe.de/en/stallions/k2/
ETA: Just found on another site that he's "found a new home at the Sprehe stud", so this is probably your best bet...
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Maren
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Re: K2
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2010, 08:34:09 PM » |
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He is owned by Sprehe, but most of their better dressage stallions are at Gröhnwohldhof for a performance career. K2 is only available frozen in Germany.
Jump: Key West was better (more scope). Bloodlines are identical of course. However, I think it's safe to say that in terms of performance offspring, Key West is the winner (so far).
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Maren
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Re: K2
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2010, 09:55:03 PM » |
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Well, in all fairness, neither of them is the "better" sire, as they had very different types of mares.
The breeders that used Key West came mostly with sport type mares, as he had several disadvantages - color, the fact that he was initially not approved in NMS and had to go the second route. Still, he did a very good job on the mare base and managed to also produce a few inspection champions etc, apart from really good sport horses.
K2's career is younger (the stallion is younger), and he bred a variety of mares due to his title (NMS champion), color and the fact that he was approved in many books. He is less consistent than Key West (you can usually spot a Key West out of a bunch of horses), but K2's offspring have very high natural rideability (Key West's can be a bit high strung) and the approved sons of K2 that we've seen so far were all VERY versatile - Dorkas an excellent jumper, Prinz K3 a very good dressage horse in Denmark.
It really comes down to personal taste. You get better neck set and shoulder from Key West, you get shorter horses from K2 - very generally speaking. The better jumpers are the Key West kids, but they have 2 years over the K2 horses and most mares that K2 was bred to were dressage mares.
At the end of the day, both are very high quality sires and I wish we had more of that kind - body type, performance, pedigree.
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