While we spend a lot of time praising the best horses and breeding stallions of a certain time, we often forget the horses that gave them life. Some mares, whether or not they have competed themselves, are extremely valuable because they pass on the genes for success in the sport. Today we discuss the mares with the highest number of offspring in international competitions in 2024 so far. One mare leads this ranking with thirteen offspring currently active in the sport.
4 mares with more than 7 offspring in International competition
Quasibelle du Seigneur (sBs) is the highest ranked mare with currently 13 active offspring in the sport. She is a mare by Rubens du Ri d'Asse out of a dam by Chin Chin, born in 2000 to Marc Vanlangendonck in Belgium. Three offspring of Quasibelle reached 1.55m level and above: MoM's Oak Grove's Heartfelt, Arac du Seigneur Z and Colibelle Hero Z, the latter, a 9-year-old mare by Comme Il Faut, is currently her most deserving offspring.
Cordula de Laubry (BWP) continues to rank highly in the breeding rankings. This mare by For Pleasure currently has 8 offspring active in international competition. She was bred at Haras de Laubry and is owned by Gert Vlekken of Belgium. In the ranking of mares according to # Black Type offspring, Cordula scores the highest with 50%. This year, her Nabab de Rêve sons Brooklyn Heights and Lord de Muze collected the most prize money.
Just Me D (BWP) also retains 8 offspring active in the sport in 2024. Currently this Cicero Z mare's best scoring offspring is undoubtedly Casual DV Z, who jumps successfully at 1.60m level with Pieter Devos, who is also the breeder of this Cornet Obolensky descendant.
Uvettas (SI) rises to the top 5 in 2024 with 8 offspring active in the sport. Remarkably, almost all the offspring of this Quidam de Revel mare were bred in combination with the stallion Indret del Maset from the Spanish stud; Yeguada el Maset. Uvettas herself jumped up to 1.60m level with Spanish rider Imma Roquet Autonell. This mare gave 9 offspring of which 8 were active in the International sport!
HERE you will find all mares with their offspring active in the international sport, by clicking on the '+' in front of the mare's name, you will get an overview of her active sport offspring.
Top 10 newcomer
La Bomba Gascora (Berlin-Brand) is a broodmare by Elevage Des Séquoias and rises in the ranking from place 277 in 2023 to 9th in 2024 with 7 active offspring in the sport.
This article was created to show that with this ranking you can easily look up all the offspring of a mare currently active in the sport. We also realize that mares with a high number of offspring are generally more likely to be at the top of this ranking.