Benicio

2005 Liver Chestnut Hanoverian Stallion standing in Germany

In October 2007, to kickstart our dressage breeding program, Callaho travelled to the Hanoverian Stallion Körung in Germany. For Ian and Jaco, there was only one colt to consider. Hence, it was a matter of going large or going home… After being re-located back to Germany in 2011, Benicio went on to spectacularly win the 6-year-old German Dressage Bundeschampionate under young horse specialist, Anna Fiebelkorn. Six months later, he aced his Stallion Performance Test at Schliekau with perfect 10’s for walk, trot and canter. His final score, 9.88, was the highest score ever achieved in the history of the Stallion Performance Test.

After only six years of formal breeding in Germany, Benico has already produced twenty-eight licensed sons (seven of whom are Premium stallions) as well as dozens of State Premium mares. With several of his sons shattering auction records and no less than eight offspring who qualified for the 2021 Bundeschampionate, this dressage sire is now firmly established as an international icon of dressage breeding.