On December 15, the stallion directory for the 2026 breeding season will go online as usual. At the same time, the Hanoverian Stallion Archive will make its debut. The Hanoverian Stallion Yearbook provides the basis for the archive. This tool for breeders was first published 25 years ago. The yearbook was published under the leadership of Dr. Ludwig Christmann with the aim of providing breeders with objective information on approved stallions. After 22 years, the printed Stallion Yearbook was replaced by the digital version. The Hanoverian Society is now responding to the wishes of its breeders to also make older stallions or those who have recorded a large proportion of their offspring with foreign breeding societies available online.
The rigid limits of the stallion yearbook, which were necessary for a book version in particular, have been lifted. All stallions that are listed in the Society's Stallion Book I, Ib or II, have at least 10 Hanoverian offspring, the youngest of which are not older than 20 years, and are not currently listed in the stallion directory can be accessed.
As usual, all recorded data such as stallion performance tests, breeding values and competition successes of the stallions are available. Another new feature is the addition of information from the stallions' dam lines. Any successful breeding or competition offspring of the dam, dam's dam or great-granddam are listed.
The top lists, which also originated in the Stallion Yearbook, can now be found in the stallion directory. Here, too, the publication criteria have been adjusted so that more stallions will be listed.
The Hanoverian Stallion Archive is thus a unique reference work that provides all available information on stallions for the breeder.