IN big news for Irish breeders, Solid Gold Z and Asca Z will stand at Castlefield Breeding Farm for the 2026 breeding season, in partnership with Zangersheide. This means that Irish breeders will have access to fresh semen seven days a week from two proven 1.60m stallions.

Asca Z (Askari x Carthago) earned victories during his career at Spruce Meadows, Basel and Mechelen, and is the sire of nine horses jumping at 1.60m level. He is also the sire of Phillip Dutton’s five-star event horse Z, as well as many other CCI2* and CCI3* level event horses. He has sired 14 approved stallions to date, among them Ciaran Kennedy’s Amadeo Van Het Vossenhof Z and Greg Broderick’s RDS four-year-old winner Abba Van De Vrombautshoeve Z.