The winning stallions at the 2026 Showcase of the Best

Another champion stallion for Diarado, first champion for Bloomingdale

Breeding 09.01.2026

from Dominique Wehrmann

Dressage champion stallion at the 2026 Showcase of the Best by Bloomingdale. Photo: Björn Schröder

At the showcase of the best, the DSP licensing in Neustadt/Dosse, the winning stallions were chosen today.

A total of 12 dressage stallions and 14 show jumping stallions out of 50 candidates were licensed at the 2026 Showcase of the Best, i.e. a good half of the lot. In addition, four of both the dressage and show jumping stallions were each awarded a premium.

Showcase of the best ’26: Neustadt/Dosse-Celle co-production

The Belantis son Bloomingdale, once again a representative of the Bolero bloodline, from the Neustadt P line is marketed both through his home town of Neustadt/Dosse and through the Celle State Stud. He began his career in Neustadt/Dosse with his licensing, then went to Celle, from where he was also able to attract attention in sport. He was Verband Champion as a three-year-old and took fourth place at the Bundeschampionat. Now he is also attracting attention as a breeder with his first champion stallion and another who received a premium.

Catalog number 5 by Bloomingdale-Millennium was named the 2026 champion stallion in Neustadt/Dosse. Heinrich Ramsbrock was the breeder responsible here. Although the classy black and bay stallion is Westphalian, he represents a Hanoverian line that has also produced the licensed and internationally Grand Prix-successful Fürstano with Juliane Brunkhorst. Diacontinus, a state stud stallion in Celle, also comes from this dam line.

The other prize-winning dressage stallions

Coming home was the showcase of the best 2026 for the reserve winner by Ben Benicio-Quaterback. The chestnut was born in Neustadt/Dosse, another example of the hereditary reliability of the aforementioned Neustadt P family, from which, in addition to this young stallion and the champion sire Bloomingdale, the famous Poetin and the dam’s sire of this newly crowned reserve champion, stamp stallion Quaterback, were also produced. However, the exhibitor was Vicky Wulschner from Walldorf.

The second Bloomingdale son of the lot with the catalog number 1 received a premium. Matthias Stickamp in Herzlake bred the beautiful-faced bay out of a Hanoverian Don Index-Cordoba dam. Heinrich Rammbock was exhibitor here.

Last but not least, a premium went to catalog number 13 by Diamond First-Millennium-Fürst Heinrich, bred by Gestüt Sprehe and exhibited by Agrar Handelsgesellschaft Salzfurtkapelle mbH & Co KG. This dark bay represents the line that produced team Olympic champion Desperados FRH, among others.

The other licensed stallions are:

No. 2 by Dancier Gold

No. 7 by Damaschino

No. 8 from Diamond First

No. 9 v. For Romance

No. 12 from Vivanero

No. 14 by Morricone I

No. 15 v. Extra Gold

No. 17 from Zoomaton

Jumping champion stallion at the 2026 Showcase of the Best by Diarado. Photo: Björn Schröder

Another champion for Diarado

Diarado, the best eventing sire in the world according to the WBFSH ranking, was one of four representatives of the Diamant de Semilly bloodline in the jumping lot at this year’s Showcase of the Best. The bay with the catalog number 34 is a Holsteiner bred by Lou Gabe van der Zwaag and was exhibited by Egbert Schep from the Netherlands and his Schep International Trade BV. The representative of the Holstein mare line 4063 has a Cascadello-Catoki dam and therefore has Cor de la Bryère four times in his pedigree, as Diarado has a Corrado-Contender dam. The result of this mating jumped elastically and moved well. He was declared champion stallion in Neustadt/Dosse today. This means that Diarado already has two champion stallions in the 2025/26 licensing season, as he also produced the champion in Holstein.

For exhibitor Egbert Schep, this is already the third jumping champion stallion in Germany after Cashmere Blue by Chacoon Blue at the OS licensing in January 2025 and the Kasanova de la Pomme son, who received the winner’s sash at the OS licensing in November.

The youngest champion will go to auction. He already knows that. Schep once bought the youngster as a foal for 6000 euros, as our colleagues at Horses.nl knew.

More premiums

The licensing committee selected a very masculine and already well-muscled son of the Sprehe stallion Toys by Toulon as reserve winner. The bay is registered as an Oldenburg show jumper and has a Holstein dam by Ramirado-Alasca. The breeder is Theodor Johannsen in Tarp. The youngster was exhibited by Agrar Handelsgesellschaft Salzfurtkapelle mbH & Co KG.

Premium stallion number three was catalog number 20, an exceptionally athletic son of Blue Diamond out of a Glenn Almé-Mentor dam. Volkmar and Heike Schadock, with whom the sire is also stationed, bred the youngster and also exhibited him. They also bred the 2023 champion stallion of the DSP licensing in Munich, Jack Blue, as well as Zinetino, who was also licensed, from the same line.

And then there was the typey Hanoverian son of Casino Grande out of an Acolito-Escudo I-Calypso II dam, who represents the line that also produced the licensed Grey Top, among others. Here it was Otto Krone in Söhlde as breeder and Jan Crome-Sperling as exhibitor who were delighted to receive a premium.

The other licensed stallions are: