Tom McEwen (GBR) has jumped up from fourth to second in the Eventing World Athlete Rankings after recording his eighth top-level win of the year when heading the Polish CCI4* long format at Strzegom with Brookfield Future News and is now just 32 points off the number one slot, which is still occupied by New Zealand’s Tim Price. ©Leszek Wójcik/Strzegom October Festival 

The FEI oversees around 70 Rankings and Standings across all the disciplines, from World Rankings calculated on a monthly basis for Athletes, Horses and/or Combinations, to league, team and regional based standings for Series such as the Longines League of Nations™, FEI World Cup™ and FEI Nations Cup™. The FEI rankings also include a variety of youth categories, which are featured separately later in the month.

Longines Rankings: World number one Vogel extends his lead 

Germany’s Richard Vogel has more than doubled his lead over second-placed Kent Farrington (USA) in the Longines Rankings to further consolidate his claim to the world number one spot. Vogel, who had a 108-point advantage at the head of affairs a month earlier, is now sitting even more comfortably out in front of the world rankings on 3,465, 288 clear of Farrington on 3,177. Vogel sealed Team Germany’s victory in the Longines League of Nations™ Final in Barcelona (ESP) with Cloudio at the beginning of October and, four weeks later, fractionally missed out on a win at the Lyon leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ with the same grey stallion by a mere three hundredths of a second. Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam (IRL) third on 3,164, 37 points ahead of the recently-crowned world champion Steve Guerdat (SUI), up one place to fourth. The USA’s McLain Ward, with a Tryon 5* Grand Prix triumph to his credit with High Star Hero, is also on the ascendancy, up two places to fifth on 3,015, with British pair Scott Brash (2,915) and Ben Maher (2,910) dropping to sixth and seventh. World number one female Nina Mallevaey (FRA), who joins Guerdat in the nominations for the Peden Bloodstock FEI Best Athlete Award, remains eighth on 2,832, followed by Daniel Deusser (GER) with 2,787, and Daniel Bluman (ISR) on 2,762 to complete the top 10.

FEI Dressage World Rankings: Laudrup-Dufour boosts her advantage

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour continues to dominate the Dressage world rankings, holding onto her lead in an unchanged top five. The Dane has boosted her tally to 2,078 after winning the home leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ in Herning with Mount St John Freestyle in October, to put her 41 points ahead of closest rival, Justin Verboomen (BEL), who remains second on 2,037. Reigning European champion Verboomen returned to his winning ways with Zonik Plus when claiming the Grand Prix in Lyon at the end of October, but was denied the double by Germany’s Isabell Werth, who produced a personal best with Viva Gold OLD for a unanimous Freestyle win in France in the first head-to-head between the two 10-year-old stallions. World champion Charlotte Fry (GBR) has been campaigning her younger horses since claiming double gold with Glamourdale in Aachen (GER), but she remains fourth on 1,951 ahead of compatriot and FEI Dressage World Cup™ title holder Becky Moody on 1,727. Marieke van der Putten (NED) is up two places to sixth on 1,710 after slotting in behind Laudrup-Dufour in Herning with Zantana RS2 OLD N.O.P. And to add some wider geographical interest, Ecuador’s Julio Mendoza Loor partnered with his Santiago 2023 Pan American Games champion Jewel’s Goldstrike to win both the Grand Prix and the Freestyle at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ leg in Lerma, St Vincent (MEX). The Ecuadorian is now up from 32nd to 23rd on 1,378, just 36 points off a top-20 place.

FEI Dressage World Ranking – Horses: Mount St John Freestyle still number one

With Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour remaining at the head of the athlete rankings, it’s no surprise that her equine partner Mount St John Freestyle is also still world number one in the separate horse rankings. The top six horses are unchanged, but the points show some movement from the previous month, with the leader now on 2,078 ahead of Zonik Plus (Justin Verboomen, BEL) on 2,037. Back-to-back double world champion Glamourdale (Charlotte Fry, GBR) remains third on an untouched tally of 1,951, while two horses from Isabell Werth’s string are fourth and fifth. Wendy de Fontaine, Werth’s Paris Olympic and Aachen World Championship Team gold medal ride, stays fourth on 1,949, and stablemate Viva Gold OLD has edged closer on the points front but is still fifth. The chestnut, who has recorded nine wins and three seconds from only 12 FEI starts in his career to date, is up from 1,734 to 1,789 to create a 62-point gap back to sixth-placed Jagerbomb (Becky Moody, GBR).

FEI Eventing World Athlete Ranking: Price holds on out front in reshuffled top 10

There’s some reshuffling at the sharp end of the Eventing rankings, but world number one Tim Price refuses to be deposed and emphatically made that point with a career seventh 5* win after posting back-to-back victories at the French season-closer in Pau with Jarillo. The pair are the first combination to win Les 5 Étoiles de Pau in consecutive years and, amazingly, the Price family also claimed 50% of the top-10 placings. Jonelle Price partnered with Senor Crocodillo to third ahead of her husband and Happy Boy in fourth, and was also eighth with Grappa Nera and ninth with Capitaine de Hus Z. Just for good measure, Tim Price filled 16th place with Garcon. Those results keep Tim out in front on 534, with Tom McEwen (GBR) jumping up from fourth to second on 502 points after recording his eighth top-level win of the year when heading the Polish CCI4* at Strzegom with Brookfield Future News and steering Quintus to fifth in Pau. Jonelle Price’s French results have boosted her up from 12th to third on 495 at the expense of Will Coleman (USA), who drops a place to fourth with 474. Ros Canter (GBR), Team gold and Individual silver medallist at the World Championship in Aachen (GER) with her history-making Badminton winner Lordships Graffalo, is another on an upward trajectory, up from seventh to fifth on 409, but fellow Brit Bubby Upton has made an even more impressive move after finishing second in Pau with It’s Cooley Time, and is up from 29th to 12th on 341. 

FEI Para Dressage World Individual & Team: No moving Shoemaker and Team USA

The USA’s Kate Shoemaker, who is among the quartet shortlisted for the Peden Bloodstock FEI Best Athlete Award, continues to hold the accolade as world number one in the FEI Para Dressage rankings. Taking a break from the competition circuit after claiming a Team and two Individual gold medals with Vianne at the World Championship in Aachen (GER), the Grade IV athlete sits on an unchanged total of 2,259, 61 points clear of compatriot and fellow triple gold medallist Fiona Howard (Grade II) on 2,198. Grade I athlete Mari Durward-Akhurst (GBR), one of the few who have returned to the international arena since Aachen, and who added a Team win on home soil at Wellington, stays third on 2,133. Heidemarie Dresing (Grade II), a member of Germany’s silver medal team at the Worlds, remains fourth on 2,118, ahead of another USA Team gold medallist, Marie Vonderheyden (Grade I) on 2,041.

With three sitting in the top five individually, the USA maintains its lead in the team rankings on 1,377, 35 points ahead of Germany in second on 1,342. There’s a smaller gap back to third, which is occupied by Great Britain, just five points in arrears on 1,337. And it’s even tighter between fourth and fifth, with Denmark holding a narrow four-point edge to stay fourth on 1,329 ahead of the Netherlands in fifth on 1,325.

FEI Driving World Rankings - Four-in-Hand / Pairs / Singles: Degrieck stays at the top

Dries Degrieck, the current FEI Driving World Cup™ title holder, is celebrating a second month as world number one in the Four-in-Hand category. The Belgian, who took Individual silver and Team bronze at the World Championship in Aachen (GER), overtook long-time leader Boyd Exell (AUS) in the end-September rankings. As the Australian has yet to return to competition after his Individual title and Team silver in Aachen, Degrieck remains out in front. The Belgian has bumped up his total to 194 after finishing second in the FEI Driving World Cup™ leg in Lyon (FRA), while Exell remains on an unchanged 150. Dutch duo Bram Chardon and his father IJsbrand, are next in line, with Bram third on 124 and IJsbrand fourth on 116.

There are no changes in the top 10 for either the Pairs or Singles, with Stan van Eijk (NED) heading the Pairs on 95 points, followed by Lars Schwitte (GER) on 71 and Francois Dutilloy (FRA) in third with 57. Fellow Frenchman Fabrice Martin, who moved up to the head of the Singles in October after a Team bronze at the division’s World Championship in München-Riem (GER), retains his number one crown on 77 points, ahead of Switzerland’s double gold medallist Stefan Ulrich, also on 77. Mario Gondolfo (SUI) stays third on 72. 

FEI Endurance Riders and Trainer World Rankings: UAE holds world number one in both categories

Salem Hamad Saeed Malhoof Al Kitbi, double gold medallist for the UAE with Moheeba at the FEI Endurance World Young Horse Championship in Barroca d’Alva (POR) in September, is still the one to beat in the Endurance Riders rankings. With just two outings in October, including a CEI2* 120-kilometre second-place finish with Ismael d'Oc in Butheeb (UAE), the venue for the FEI Endurance World Championship in December 2026, Al Kitbi is sitting comfortably on a tally of 1,316 to hold the number one spot for the second consecutive month. Closest to him is Melody Theolissat (FRA), who led Les Bleus to Team silver in Barroca d’Alva (FRA), but now has a 258-point deficit to make up if she is to return to the top of the rankings. Compatriot Victor Fabre Carlus, whose Team silver and Individual fourth with Douentza de Lauzadie at the July European Youth Championship on home soil in Jullianges (FRA) elevated him to the head of the Youth rankings, is now up from seventh to third in the senior equivalent on 995 points. Bahrain’s Fahad Helal Mohamed Al Khatri, who remains at the top of the Combination rankings with Kashmir des Bois, is up two places to fourth on 881, followed closely by Spain’s Aina Pujols Aumatell on 876.

The Trainers’ ranking list is also headed by a UAE representative, Mohammed Ahmad Ali Al Subosi, who had moved up from third to take over the lead the previous month. Now on 1,405 points, he is well clear of Bahrain’s Ahmed Jaafar Janahi in second on 1,296, with another sizeable gap back to Pio Olascoaga Silveira of Uruguay, up one place to third on 1,169.