Both Bugatti Hilltop and Festrausch saw their "stardom" grow this year as each earned additional stars from the ISR/OldenburgNA. Earning his star in the "Success of Offspring" category, Bugatti completes his fifth star and joins Parabol (Paradox I x Waldschuetz) in being one of only four stallions in the U.S. to earn the five-star ranking. Bugatti's quickly growing number of offspring are truly storming the dressage scene with horses such as Marcia Richardson's Bocaccio IOF's (Bugatti x Rubinstein) all blue-ribbon performance at the Fair Hill Breed Show this year. The yearling colt won his age group class with a score of 82.4 and continued to win all the championship classes till securing his grand champion title, while picking up along the way High-Point Hanoverian and Born In The USA awards. Bugatti's offspring under saddle are giving stellar performances as well. Balmoral (Bugatti x I'ma Hell Raiser), owned by Elizabeth Callahan, was the high-scoring mare at Hilltop's ISR/Oldenburg inspection this year, scoring 108 points, as well as winning the Four- and Five-Year-Old Mare Materiale at the Fair Hill Breed Show and securing fourth in the class at Dressage at Devon.

Festruasch earned what will be his third star in the category of "Foal Evaluation" for producing 10 or more Premium Foals. At the last ISR/Oldenburg Inspection, two of his foals owned by Caroline Collomb, Forever in Paris (Festrausch x Quicklove Fontaine) and Freshwind in Paris (Festrausch x Ahorn), went Premium. Another youngster, Hester (Festrausch x Hannah) owned by George Newton also earned his Premium status with consistent 8.1 scores across all categories. Hilltop is very excited about the offspring of these two stallions and look forward to watching their offsprings' promising future careers.