Breeding season is starting and the studfarms are looking for fathers for tehir future stars. No better time than to write about the best Active Stallions, with offspring on international competitions, and with semen that currently available. We used Hippomundo and HorseTelex to obtain the data.  

  1. Casall Ask  
Casall Ask is on top with more than 2,3 million in prize money. Casall may be 18 years old, what makes him the oldest horse on the list, that doesn't mean he isn't still on the top of the rankings. With his rider Rolf-Göran Bengtsson (SWE), we were able to see this handsome stallion, this past year, 11 times in the top 5 results on CSI5* competitions, 3 times as aGlobal Championstour Grand Prix (Parijs, Valkenswaard en Doha) Winner, and one time as the G¨CSI5* winner in Basel. Casall Ask a Holsteiner, but is an approved stallion for all studbooks. Casallo (Piergorgio Bucci, ITA), Powerplay(Eric Lamaze, CAN), Casello Z(Ludger Beerbaum), Alicante HBC (Jérôme Guery, BEL) and Caracas (Jos Verlooy, BEL) Are only a few of his products who are doing amazing in the showjumping competitions. You can order Casall Ask's frozen semen by clicking on this link Full achievement list here  
  1. Taloubet Z
The stallion placed second on this list is Taloubet Z, a KWPN-son of Galoubet A and Krista(v. Polydor). This 17-year old Stallion is the Pride and Glory of  Zangerheide Studfarm and has performed very good this past year. Taloubet has, together with Christian Ahlman, a lot of CSI5* classes on his lifelong result list . His most recent victory during the WoldCup in Stuttgart in november and his 2nd place during the Top 10 Rolex Final in Geneva beginning of december, prove that this stallion is still ready to rock. Taloubetdarco K Z (Toshiki Masui (JPN)) and Talou Contender K Z(Christian Ahlmann (DEU)) are both products of Taloubet Z that are competing on the highest level. Frozen semen available.  Click on this link Full Results click here  
  1. Casallo Z
Casallo Z is a 13-year old son of our number one in the list Casall Ask is the grandchild of Carthago Z. With the help of Piergorgio Bucci, this “Exclusive Breeding Stallion” jumped a lot of prize-money together the past year. He was, for example, First in the Grand Prix GCT Estoril third CSI5* Brussels 1m60. Casallo Z is one of the Tal Milstein Stallions. Tal posses more great stallions like Alicante, who's also a Cassal Ask son. Full results click  here. Fresh and frozen semen can be ordered through this link  
  1. Comme Il Faut
[caption id="attachment_139932" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Marcus Ehning - Comme Il Faut Wereldbeker MHW[/caption] Ook Comme Il Faut had a great year and had to be in this list. Comme Il Faut is a breeding product of BWP stallion Cornet Obolensky(v. Clinton) and Zangersheide mare Ratina Z (v. Ramiro Z), a match made in heaven. This 12-year old handsome stallion has a lot of scope and a very great mindset, this made it possible to jump, together with Marcus Ehning, to the absolute world top during these past few years. Ehning and Comme Il Faut were able to jump 17 out of 20 classes clear this year which is a score of 85%.  They won the CSI3* 1.55m in Paderborn(GER), the CSI5* GCT Grand Prix in Wien and the Worldcup CSI5* in Madrid. Comme Il Faut's oldest products are only born in 2009, which causes for the moment an abscence of Comme Il Faut horses in the 5* circuit, because they are still to young. Comilfo Plus Z (°2009, s.m. Balou de Rouet), Capri 100 (°2010, s.m. Pilot) , Cap 4 (°2010, s.m.Landjonker) Cairon 10 (°2010, s.m. Charisma I) and Commissaire S (°2010, s.m. Polydor), are the oldest products of Comme Il faut and are showing some promising rounds in the 1.40m and 1.45 classes already. Also in the list of "approved stallions" we can see some Comme Il Faut horses. His full Results click here. Comme Il Faut is available at studfarm Van De Heffinck, CLICK here for more info.
  1. Halifax van het Kluizebos
5th we find Halifax van het Kluizebos, a Heartbreaker x Dalida vd Heffinck(v. Fetiche du Pas) stallion born in 2007, what makes him the youngest sire on this list. This 10-year old BWP stallion enjoyed a great education under Frederic Vernaet and Daniel Deusser and went as a 8 year old to Stephex-Rider Lorenzo de Luca. During the past fex months Lorenzo was able to win the London-Olympia CSI5* 1.50m and 1.55m and CSI5* 1.45m in Mechelen (BEL) Also during Zurich (SUI), Basel(SUI) and Hong Kong, Halifax showed of by winning some prize money. Full Results Lists of Halifax Click Here You can find Halifax in the Sire catalogue of T&L on page 13 (Tilleman & Lenaerts) Click here.