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Grannus only covered a few mares at the beginning of his career but was extremely popular towards the end of his life and was bred to as many as 300 mares a year.
Grannus produced 11 licensed stallions registered with the Hanoverian breed alone and some 80 approved sons worldwide. He bred 540 daughters who are registered broodmares, of which 46 received State Premium awards.
Grannus sired some 800 competition horses who earned just under 4 million DM in prize money! Showjumping stars by Grannus include Grannusch (John Whitaker), Grand Plaisir (Ludger Beerbaum), Governor (Phillipe le Jeune), Golo (Gerd Wiltfang), Gaston M (H. Sprunger), Burmah Grand Slam (Nick Skelton), Top Gun La Silla (Jan Tops), and many others.
In the Hannoverian Stallion Book for 1999 his progeny recorded a very superior 156 for their jumping abilities.
The black son of Graphit was another of those great sires who was not a star of his performance test ? indeed he scored a miserable 86.46 to come 58th out of a class of 66 at Adelheidsdorf back in 1976.
Luckily for the showjumping world, his owner Heinrich Klatte had faith in the stallion and his two sons, Guido and Ulrich Klatte took Grannus out into the competition arena where he collected a series of wins up to Advanced level.
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