Apiro, C. Quino, Ragtime or Crown Affair? Please share your experience with them.

[Halfhalting]

I would love an update on the foals that were discussed in this thread! I’m considering both C Quito and Apiro for a mare this spring and would love to see how the youngsters noted here grew up.

fwiw- my mare is a large boned but elegant Hanoverian - target a hunter, need a stallion that throws hunter movement and doesn’t take away awesome jump.

[DLee]

[QUOTE=Halfhalting;8396894]
I would love an update on the foals that were discussed in this thread! I’m considering both C Quito and Apiro for a mare this spring and would love to see how the youngsters noted here grew up.

fwiw- my mare is a large boned but elegant Hanoverian - target a hunter, need a stallion that throws hunter movement and doesn’t take away awesome jump.[/QUOTE]

I love both of my boys, the Apiro is now 5 and the C.Quito is 3 and just started under saddle. FYI, C.Quito has been gelded. There is still frozen available but I don’t know how much. My mare settled on one try with his frozen.

If I absolutely had to pick between these two horses (both out of the same TB mare) I would choose the C.Quito. His movement and temperament are both exceptional. Everyone who sees him says “Damn, that’s a nice horse!”
That said they are both really nice horses, the Apiro gelding has a beautiful canter and jumps just like his daddy. He has had more of an ‘attitude’ but that is getting better all of the time. His movement is flatter than the C.Quito.

Here are a couple pics of my C.Quito three year old on just his second and third day under saddle. He is naturally built uphill and is so balanced it’s amazing.

[Halfhalting]

Beautiful boy. I’m really bummed about C.Quito being gelded… I think I need fresh semen.

[Didi]

I am new to the discussion. I have an 8 month old by Crown Affair and he is absolutely amazing. He has good bone and is going to be huge according to the vet. He is also very well put together and beautiful. He has a beautiful canter as far as I can tell, and does very well through the shoulder. He recently was accidentally frightened by a neighbor crossing his field in camo and effortlessly jumped a 4 1/2 foot fence!!! He has been friendly since the moment he was born and has an overall spirit of cooperation. I could not be more pleased.

[winter]

My Apiro filly discussed above turned out to be a really top horse. She was so quiet and easy and so unflappable about things on the ground but turned out to be more sensitive than I thought she would be under saddle. She didn’t grow much after two and is a nice 16.1 with good bone, really modern sport type. She had all the scope and the canter to be a top jumping horse but also had the trot, technique and looks that she ended up in the hunters. If she continues on her same path she will be a competitive derby or regular horse. I wish now that I had repeated the cross, but Apiro was frozen only for so long so I never did.