Geronimo

Steens Mountain Kiger
Foundation Stallion (#67)
15'2 Grullo

To see Charro gallop across the pasture in his effortless, fluid movement, is truely a sight to see. He seems to float with ease, yet one cannot help but notice the power behind the movement. Charro has super flexion between his sacrum and lumbar spine. This means his hindend literally can drop away beneath you as he reaches those hind legs far underneath his torso and pulls himself forward with a thrust that is quite an experience. In all my experience, I have only seen one other horse, an imported Lusitano stallion, that had the same ability. Charro passes this about 80% of the time onto his foals.

When taking Charro or his get to the chiropractor and for body work, the most common comment is that "they are like trying to adjust a rubber band". Even farriers have marvelled at how high and how long they can lift their hind foot onto the stand without any compensation from the rest of his body. We had an instance where a three year old filly by Charro fell in the roundpen and her neck bend sideways with her body folded down on top of her head and neck. She laid calmly while we carefully flipped her body over and she got up like nothing happened and was not even sore the next day!

Kigers are considered "soft gaited"...this means while they are not a gaited horse, they have a trot and canter that is super smooth and easy to ride. Sitting the trot takes no effort and the rocking chair canter is a dream to ride. Charro passes these wonderful gaits onto his foals. One thing that has been commented on the Kigers is that they have "undertow". They have such a desire to stay balanced, that they will literally get under the rider and take you with them. It is an incredible feeling!

Charros' color is described as a grullo; this means he is black based with the dun gene. The dun gene causes the base color to dilute, leaving the points plus some other markings including a dorsal stripe, leg bars and reverse face mask among other special markings.

Charro also has a recessive red gene which means he can produce red duns. He cannot produce a zebra dun (bay based dun) unless he is bred to a bay based mare or a red based mare with a recessive agouti (the gene which causes bay).

Charro has produced grullos, zebra duns and red duns; along with dark grullos (grullos that appear black) and dunalinos (putting the dun gene on a red based mare that also has the cream gene as in a palamino).

Charro has passed the dun dilution on all of his foals to date...he has no solid colored foals such as bay or chestnuts. Charro has one white sock on his left rear foot and to the best of my knowledge, has only put this on two foals: Calista and Fabio. He does not have white on his face and his foals get their white facial markings from the mares side if any.

Charro consistantly throws better than he is in many areas. His foals all have his sweet temperment, quick bonding to people and high level of trainability. He also tends to improve each mare he breeds...there is no mistaking a Charro foal out in the pasture with other foals as he consistantly stamps them with the special "pizzaz" he has.

Charros' daughters are proving themselves in the breeding shed to be superior producers and passing along those traits that are so desirable. Charros' grandbabies have that unmistakable "charro-ness".

Charro has very high semen motility, averaging over 85%. He settles most mares on the first cycle and rarely do we need to rebred.

Charro is no longer available to outside mares.