New FEI Endurance world number one: The UAE’s Salem Hamad Saeed Malhoof Al Kitbi, seen here at the head of the field of the FEI Endurance World Young Horse Championship in Barroca d’Alva (POR) with his team and individual gold medal partner Moheeba, has leapt up from 12th to head the Endurance Riders’ Rankings. © FEI/Ignacio Díaz Herranz

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: Vogel extends his lead as world number one



Richard Vogel, who took over as world number one in the end-August Longines Rankings after that incredible German Team gold at the FEI World Championships 2026 in Aachen (GER), has now extended what was a 73-point lead a month ago to a 108-point advantage over the USA’s Kent Farrington. In September, Vogel saddled Cloudio for the Canadian Nations Cup in Calgary, where Team Germany once again topped the line-up, but although his dream of taking the Spruce Meadows feature Grand Prix with his Aachen partner United Touch was denied, the 29-year-old still gathered enough points to further cement his place at the top of the rankings. Vogel sits comfortably at the head of affairs on 3,427 points, with former top-spotter Kent Farrington (USA) holding onto second with 3,319. Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam, after a busy month that included a 5* Grand Prix win with Coriaan van Klapscheut Z in Rockwood (CAN) and a second-place finish in the opening leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ North American League at Traverse City (USA) with James Kann Cruz, is back up from fifth to third on 3,171 at the expense of Scott Brash (GBR), who has slid a place to fourth on 3,097. Newly-minted world champion Steve Guerdat (SUI) is down a place in fifth on 3,082, followed by Ben Maher (GBR), who remains in sixth on 2,966, despite winning the big money in Calgary with Enjeu de Grisien. McLain Ward (USA) is up two places in seventh with 2,868, while Nina Mallevaey (FRA), still wearing the leading female athlete crown, is up two slots to eighth on 2,847. After taking the Greenwich (USA) 5* Grand Prix on 29 September 2026 with Corbie V.V., Israel’s Daniel Bluman returns to the top-10, up from 13th to ninth on 2,787, and Daniel Deusser (GER) rounds out the elite circle of 10, dropping two places to 10th on 2,777.

Longines League of Nations™ Ranking: Team USA still in charge

Kent Farrington may have been removed from the number one spot in the Longines Rankings by Richard Vogel, but he’s one of the main reasons why Team USA continues to head the Longines League of Nations™ (LLN) Ranking. All six of the Americans, including their U25 athlete Skylar Wireman, are in the world’s top-100 and they have two in the top-10, putting them on 14,830 points and allowing them to maintain their dominance in the LLN table. Not surprisingly after the Team triumph in Aachen, the Germans have edged closer and are now within 463 points of the leading sextet on 14,367, and the new world champions have extended their advantage over third-placed Belgium (13,942) to 425 points. Team Ireland is up a place to fourth and snapping at the Belgians’ heels on 13,930, with France also on the ascent – up one to fifth with 13,747. The British have slid down two places to sixth with a tally of 13,716, followed by Switzerland (11,261), Brazil (10,801) and Italy (10,408), while Israel has pushed the Netherlands out of the world’s 10 leading nations and is perched in 10th on 9,569.

FEI Dressage World Rankings: Laudrup-Dufour maintains her lead

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour and Mount St John Freestyle are still the ones to dislodge at the head of the Dressage world rankings, with the Danish combination holding onto the top spots in both the athlete and horse divisions. The pair have not been seen out on the international circuit since claiming double Individual silver and Team bronze at the FEI World Championships in Aachen (GER) back in August, but that has not impacted their continued claim to the leader’s throne. Laudrup-Dufour stays on 2,058 to leave her 21 points clear of the 2025 European double gold medallist Justin Verboomen (BEL) on 2,037. With seven of the top-10 taking a break from competition after Aachen, including Verboomen, the names remain the same in the top-10, but there’s one important change in third. The discipline’s most medalled athlete Isabell Werth (GER), fresh off world Team gold, has overtaken two-time and back-to-back world champion Charlotte Fry (GBR) after the German claimed both the Grand Prix and Freestyle with her new up-and-coming star Viva Gold OLD at the Austrian 4* in Vienna in September 2026. Werth now sits on 1,954, just three points ahead of fourth-placed Fry, whose Aachen silver medal team mates Becky Moody (1,727) and Carl Hester (1,691) hold fifth and sixth.

FEI Dressage World Ranking – Horses: Mount St John Freestyle stays in front

Mount St John Freestyle, the 17-year-old mare that Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour has said she hopes to aim at the 2027 European Championships on home footing in Vejle (DEN), is also still out in front in the separate horses ranking. Her points tally of 2,058 keeps her ahead of the stallion Zonik Plus (Justin Verboomen, BEL) on 2,037, with another entire, the Aachen double gold medallist Glamourdale (Lottie Fry, GBR), in third on 1,951. He is a mere two points clear of another mare, Wendy de Fontaine (Isabell Werth, GER), with Werth’s double Vienna winner Viva Gold OLD – also a stallion – up two places to fifth on 1,734. Interestingly, the gender balance in the horse rankings is virtually the opposite to the athletes’ version, with four mares in the top-10 compared to seven females in the elite end of the human equivalent.

FEI Eventing World Athlete Ranking: Kiwi Price remains out in front

New Zealand’s Tim Price is holding on to the world number one spot, but he’s got company right behind him, with the USA’s Boyd Martin creeping ever closer. Price’s total of 534 leaves him a mere six points ahead of Martin after the American added a 4*-short win to the CV of Luke 140 at Tryon (USA), and there’s another Team USA athlete galloping up to within touching distance of the leaders. Will Coleman, best of the US at the World Championships in Aachen where he finished fourth with Diabolo on an untouched Dressage mark to clinch Team bronze, subsequently picked up a seventh-place finish at the British 5* in Burghley with Very Dignified to boost his tally to 500 and jump up from seventh to third. Tom McEwen (GBR), who has had an incredible run of six wins since taking Team gold in Aachen, is up a place to fourth on 479, with fellow Brit Tom Jackson up from 11th to fifth on 430. Other big movers are Caroline Pamukcu (USA), whose Burghley podium finish with HSH Blake has boosted her up from 12th to sixth on 426, just ahead of Ros Canter (GBR) on 409. Gemma Stevens (GBR), who claimed the Burghley honours with Chilli Knight, is up from 25th to eighth on 394, followed by Katie Magee (GBR), second in Burghley with Treworra, who has leapt up from 34th to ninth on 391.

FEI Para Dressage World Individual & Team: Shoemaker & Team USA stay top

With a break in the Para Dressage calendar after the World Championships in Aachen (GER), there are no changes at the head of either the Individual or Team rankings, which are both headed by the USA. Triple gold medallist Kate Shoemaker (Grade IV) remains out in front in the Individual category on an unchanged tally of 2,259 points, followed by compatriot Fiona Howard (Grade II) on 2,198. Closest to the USA pair is Great Britain’s Grade I athlete Mari Durward-Akhurst, but she is 126 points off the top spot on 2,133. Germany’s Heidemarie Dresing (Grade II) remains in fourth on 2,118, ahead of another USA Team gold medallist, Marie Vonderheyden (Grade I) on 2,041.

In the team rankings, the USA is able to rest on its laurels after an incredible medal haul of six golds in Aachen, and stays out front on an unaltered 1,377 points. Germany is next in the order in second on 1,342, with Great Britain still adrift by just five points in third on 1,337. Denmark holds onto fourth with 1,329, just four points clear of the Netherlands in fifth on 1,325.

FEI Driving World Rankings - Four-in-Hand / Pairs / Singles: Belgian Degrieck deposes Exell at number one

Dries Degrieck, the Belgian driver who claimed the FEI Driving World Cup™ crown in Bordeaux back in February and went on to take Individual silver and Team bronze at the World Championships in Aachen (GER), has overtaken Boyd Exell (AUS) at the head of the Four-in-Hand rankings. Degrieck’s 186 points leave him 36 ahead of Exell, while there’s a 26-point gap between the Australian and best of the Dutch, Bram Chardon, in third on 124. Bram’s father Ijsbrand Chardon (NED) holds onto fourth with 113.

Stan van Eijk took over pole position in the end-August Pairs rankings, and the Dutchman remains in front after a second-place finish at Le Touquet (FRA), which has left him on 95 points. Germany’s Lars Schwitte is 24 points adrift in second, ahead of a new face in third, Frenchman Francois Dutilloy, up from 12th on 57. There’s also a newcomer at the head of the Singles category. Fabrice Martin (FRA) has taken over at the top, up from sixth with 77 points, a tally he shares with second-placed Stefan Ulrich (SUI), Team and Individual gold medallist at last month’s Singles World Championships in München-Riem (GER). Ulrich’s compatriot Mario Gondolfo, part of the gold medal team in Germany and Individual silver medallist, is down a place to third on 72.

FEI Endurance Riders and Trainer World Rankings: UAE’s Al Kitbi takes over as world number one

The UAE’s Salem Hamad Saeed Malhoof Al Kitbi, who partnered with the Spanish-bred mare Moheeba to claim Team and Individual gold at last month’s FEI Endurance World Young Horse Championship in Barroca d’Alva (POR), has galloped up from 12th to take over at the head of the Endurance Riders rankings. Al Kitbi, 31, who also teamed up with Ferrari to finish third in the 3* 160-kilometre ride in Portugal two days later, brought Chicha des Pacoulis home in second at the French 3* 160-kilometre in Florac the following week and then won on home sand with Haleh in Dubai at the end of the month, also at the maximum distance. The UAE athlete is on 1,316, which leaves him 136 points clear of former world number one Melody Theolissat (FRA), who won in Florac with Galaxie Reial AA and was on the French silver medal team in Barroca d’Alva. She now sits on 1,180 in second. Another French female, Elena Paton, is up from sixth to third on 937 after finishing third in Florac with Zulus Cabirat, and her ascent up the rankings has relegated compatriot May Manifacier, who drops a place to fourth on 921. With two podium finishes in the past month, Spain’s Aina Pujols Aumatell is up from 18th to fifth with 899, 18 points ahead of Bahrain’s sixth-placed Fahad Helal Mohamed Al Khatri, who has also moved up from 19th to top the combination rankings with Kashmir des Bois.

There has been some rejuggling of the order in the Trainers’ ranking too, with the UAE’s Mohammed Ahmad Ali Al Subosi up from third to take over the lead on 1,403 points, at the expense of former world number one, Ahmed Jaafar Janahi (BRN), now second on 1,296. Melody Theolissat (FRA) is up from 22nd to third with 1,223, and Uruguay’s Pio Olascoaga Silveira stays fourth on 1,212.

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