Astek Stud is proud to introduce the magnificent Holsteiner stallion "Ramirez" to breeders.
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Breed: Registered
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Ramirez is a magnificent and superbly bred imported Holsteiner stallion with huge presence, from the famous Holsteiner "R" sire line that is particularly well known for its exceptional jumping abilities.Ramirez was bred in Germany and had begun a very promising competition career in both dressage and showjumping before a very unfortunate stable injury forced his early retirement. As a dressage horse he scored 9s and 10s for paces with Dr Ense, and as a jumper he showed a great natural bascule with tremendous power, extremely careful technique and keen attitude.
"Ramirez at Astek Stud - April 2006"
His legendary licensed Holsteiner sire "Ramiro Z" has been titled "Stallion of the Century" and "King of Sires".
He has ranked #1 in the world as the sire of jumping horses in the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses Index and even today, years after his death, is still consistently rated among the World's Top 10 Sporthorse Sires for outstanding breeding and offspring performance! He has produced over 50 licensed stallions among whom include Rabino, Robin Z II, the Swedish Stallion Robin Z I and Ramses. He has produced numerous international and European champions in both Grand Prix dressage and Advanced showjumping (including Ratina Z - ridden by Ludgar Beerbaum and described as the best horse in the world after Gold and Silver Olympic and World Cup performances), as well as many superb stallion sons and premium broodmares.
Ramiro Z was a very talented performer in his own right, winning many international Grand Prix classes under Fritz Ligges. He also won many Nations Cups and was famous for his Puissance results (jumping over 2.2 metres!).Ramirez's dam Riletta is by Roberto and she also showjumped successfully at advanced "S" class level (A Grade). This is the female family of many well performed horses, including champion showjumper and successful sire Corrado (by Cor de la Bryere) ridden by Frankie Sloothaak.
Click here to view Ramirez pedigree and bloodline details.
"Ramirez at Astek Stud - Summer 2011"
Holsteiner stallion by Ramiro Z x Roberto / Anilin / Hector
(Photo: Antonia Steeg)Ramirez has tremendous presence - he is a true stallion in every sense of the word that really captures attention and takes your breath away. He has a magnificent body, a beautiful head and expression, medium sized bone and much power and athleticsm, well suited to crossing over both Thoroughbred and warmblood mares. He has a very kind, alert, willing character and is a highly intelligent yet sensitive horse who is eager to please and loves to do things.
His movement is very uphill and elastic with an especially well balanced big round canter, and he loves to jump. Ramirez is indeed very much the image of his own famous sire, Ramiro Z!
On arrival to New Zealand Ramirez stood semi-privately at stud with John Cottle (International and Grand Prix showjumping rider and trainer). Since beginning his stud career, Ramirez has been proving his potential as a sire by producing classy purpose-bred sporthorse types.
His progeny have real "X-Factor" - very classy individuals with excellent correct conformation and real "look at me" presence. Because of this, his offspring have won many Championships in the show ring, with ridden performances seeing his progeny competing with success at World Cup level showjumping, Advanced Eventing and Advanced Dressage proving him to be a sire of talented perfomers.
View our Hall Of Fame page for further details on Ramirez' progeny results.
"Ramirez at Astek Stud Open Day, January 2009" (18 years old)
Holsteiner stallion by Ramiro Z x Roberto / Anilin / Hector
(Photo: Antonia Steeg)Ramirez produces foals with rich colours and markings - his is a dominant bay producer and will not ever produce a chestnut foal. His progeny are well known for their uphill, well balanced movement while also being talented, careful jumpers - as per all of the Holsteiner "R" line horses, they really do not like to touch a rail. While this pedigree line can produce quite sensitive horses, crossed with the right mare Ramirez adds a real carefulness, sharpness and powerful one on one type of bond with their riders that can be unbeatable for higher level dressage or jumping performance.
As his progeny have matured in recent years, many of them are also now showing up in eventing (particularly the Thoroughbred crosses) being hailed by riders and coaches alike for their bold eventing performances and showing great potential and results including Champion Young Event Horse titles, Best Performed Mare awards and Young Rider Eventing Championships to their credit.
Ramirez Progeny Photo Gallery
Despite serving smaller mare numbers in his first few seasons at stud simply because he was kept semi-private and not strongly promoted, his older progeny are often talked about by riders, judges and trainers for their star quality and ability - we regularly hear the same words repeated by owners of his progeny... that these are once in a lifetime horses!
Also like his own sire Ramiro Z, who in later life found a new strength via his daughters who are now highly prized by many of the top breeding studs around the world seeing Ramiro Z become a very important broodmare sire, Ramirez too is becoming well known for this same attribute with his daughters also producing some outstanding offspring for New Zealand breeders when crossed with other quality stallions.
Ramiro Z can be found in the close up dam-line of many top performance horses and licensed stallions (such as the exceptional German Dressage stallion "Sandro Hit" and Premium showjumping stallion "Casiro" to name just two), his influence prized for adding great knee and hock action for dressage and enormous power and bascule for jumping.
Ramirez has lots of power, scope and bold attitude for jumping.
(Note: these two photos were taken from video footage hence the low quality)Ramirez stood at Astek Stud for the first time in 2004. We love the real character, strong conformation, correctness and classic quality that Ramirez produces in his foals.
Under saddle his young progeny have continued to fulfill our expectations, bringing forward their excellent work ethic, character and natural talent to training..... these horses continue to impress us more and more as we work with them!Many people with older progeny are breeding back to Ramirez again as they mature and find they have quite a special horse in their hands - great testiment to his offspring.
We believe this stallion is a huge asset to New Zealand sporthorse breeding, not only for his own progeny performances but also for future NZ Warmblood generations via his daughters and their world famous bloodlines.Service bookings are now open for the coming breeding season. We value all clients and will always do our very best to ensure your quality mare produces a quality foal for you.
2012 Stud Fee: $2000+GST
(includes Booking Fee, First Semen Collection Fee & First Semen Freight NZ wide, plus Live Foal Guarantee).
(Discount provided for multiple mares booked to any of our stallions by one owner.)
AI only. Transported fresh chilled semen available NZ wide. Highly fertile.
All services come with a Live Foal Guarantee and Service contract.
Stallion Service Contract Download - Ramirez (Holsteiner) Service Contract 2012 (PDF 63kb)
All progeny by Ramirez are eligible to be registered with the New Zealand Warmblood Horse Association and with the Holsteiner Horse Association of Australia New Zealand.
Please phone Sue at Astek Stud - 03 347 6613 - or email info@astek.co.nz for more info/video or DVD/service contracts etc.
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