ADVERTORIALS The passion for horse breeding often starts after an initial and close encounter as an amateur with the wonderful world of horses. For many it starts with a passion for horse riding and afterwards dreaming about horse breeding. Maybe the first foal is born from a family mare that is then paired with a second broodmare, then a third …

The Holsteiner CASALL was born on 13 April 1999 at Drelsdorf in Germany, bred by Thomann Wilfried. His sire is the great CARETINO and his mother is KIRA XVII (LAVALL I x RAIMOND), born in 1995 and bought very young by Thomann Wilfried. KIRA XVII belongs to the Holst Stamm 890, one of the most popular Holstein dam lines. In 2003 …

If you liked the first part of the interview with Cesare Galli ( HERE IS THE FIRST PART ), you certainly can’t miss this second part! We also reported here the data of the work carried out at Avantea in the last 10 years, which you can read at the end of the interview, just published in the “Journal of Equine Veterinary Science” …

In recent years, assisted reproduction techniques in sport horses have undergone a turning point that we can define as epochal with the introduction and increasingly extensive use of Ovum Pick Up and ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection). An Italian researcher, together with his team, is the leader in Europe in the application of this technique, a name now known to anyone …

CHACCO-BLU (1998, CHAMBERTIN x CONTENDER) was not one of the best known and most appreciated stallions when in 2012 he died prematurely due to a bacterial infection, a borreliosis. In that year in the FEI-WBFSH stallion ranking he did not even appear in the top 100, as most of his offspring, born between 2006 and 2010, were still too young. Nobody …