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MIXTURE: 100% Perennial ryegrass
Usage
Renovation and/or construction of elite winter sports pitches. Designed for elite winter sport stadiums and pitches, it focuses on the key characteristics of wear tolerance, recovery, camera-friendly grass colour and disease resistance. ELITE SPORT is changing the game for the renovation and construction of stadium and other high-quality pitches.
Top performing varieties
Barenbrug’s ELITE SPORT product has been re-formulated for 2023 to include brand new cultivars to the market.
Barzico holds the coveted #1* position, trialled under winter sports wear simulation at 25mm height of cut. The cultivar originates from Barenbrug’s Dutch breeding station and is a very strong all-round ryegrass suitable for many applications. Visually, it is mid-fine, extremely dense with a medium green colour.
Barbasten sits just below Barzico, as #4*. It is a true winter sports cultivar and a “late-heading” variety
from the Dutch breeding station. Coarser in the leaf, paler green and exceptionally active in winter/spring recovery, Barbasten brings additional Drechslera leaf spot tolerance to the product.
New for 2023 is the #6 ranked variety, Barpersie, featuring exceptional density and will be balanced with the well-established variety Barcristalla, cementing ELITE SPORT as the market-leading grass seed mixture of its type, designed for elite winter sport stadiums and pitches.
Features & benefits
Every elite squad should have the perfect combination of characterises. Our ELITE SPORT seed mix blends four of the toughest, most hardwearing perennial ryegrasses into a top performing team.
High wear tolerance and recovery
The mixture is formulated primarily on performance in the BSPB/STRI Turfgrass Seed 2023 booklet Table S1 for sports pitch wear simulation. All four cultivars are highly ranked, and ELITE SPORT has the UK’s highest ‘mixture score’ of 7.83.
Camera-friendly colour
Barcristalla is a key variety in ELITE SPORT, with a much darker genetic colour than other top varieties, while Barbasten brings additional Drechslera leaf spot tolerance to the blend and Barzico combines top-rated visual merit and wear tolerance.
Graph showing performance versus colour of all perennial ryegrasses listed in the BSPB/STRI booklet. Barcristalla and Barorlando (yellow) show the best compromise between these two traits.
*BSPB/STRI Turfgrass Seed 2023 booklet