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Kratos passed away within a week of being "off". Turned out to be kidney failure without any early signs of not being able to urinate. Very shocking. We loved him hard for 14 years.
Looks like Kratos made a black out of a gray girl. He looks awesome! Kratos(Cray-tose), is perfection in brown with recessive gray genetics and black. The black is strong on sires side (ARI listing show lighter but db colored up to bb, bb up to tb etc. on several animals). His maternal grandsire Santana is the sire of Sunset Hills Andean Gold. He also has the grand presence, calm personality, and his sire's lovely head which was admired greatly by Julio Sumar. Stunning, stunning fleece that just glows on high amplitude crimp on fantastic staple length. All this and a perfect bite and huge bone.
Kratos will bring to your breeding program what Adonis has been bringing to our farm and others. That is, an improvement over the dam in fineness, density, bone, and a calm, friendly personality (most of the time). Kratos has amazing crimp structure and brightness that along with fineness and density are the same ideals that won his sire 6 blue ribbons (5 were out of 6 shows as a yearling). His dam Renee has excellent fiber from her 3x AOBA champion sire Santana and her grandsires Augusto and Leon. The sire's line includes Black Magic and Royal Eros, Royal Apollo and Royal Fawn as well as Allianza through Grandam Amelie. Kratos is 15/16 Peruvian. Adonis has been making grays and blacks & Kratos has more gray on maternal side. Low micron on gray is something to strive for with the low CV's.
It is tougher to keep him cool with the amount of fleece he has, but when we can, he shines in the ring like he did at the IAOBA show!
Kratos did his sire JJA Royal Adonis proud by ranking up there with a Black Mesquite son, Black Icecapade and Express boys!
KRATOS SETTLED HIS FIRST GIRL ON THE FIRST TRY AT 2 YRS OLD!
Kratos is a fantastic brown male with HUGE potential to throw grey and black as his sire does regularly and Kratos has even more grey genetics. He has lived in the shadow of his sire and just hasn't drawn the interest in breedings. He is middle age and really would make an excellent stud somewhere else.
We have had way too many males over the years and need to make a dent in the numbers for our Two Weddings and a Barn Full Sale!