Germany’s Calvin Böckmann, who finished fourth on his senior championship debut at the Blenheim Europeans last year with The Phantom of the Opera, has a 72-point lead in Eventing’s U25 Rankings. © FEI/Lukasz Kowalski

FEI Jumping U25 Ranking: Thibeau Spits takes over as world number one

Thibeau Spits, the youngest member of Belgium’s winning team at last year’s FEI Jumping European Championship in A Coruña where he rode Impress-K van't Kattenheye Z, has taken over at the top of the U25 rankings on 1,860 points. Now in his final year in the U25 ranks, the 24-year-old was also a multiple medallist in the Youth divisions, including double gold with Classic Touch DH at the Oliva 2022 European Young Riders Championship, and currently sits just outside the top 50 in the Longines Rankings. Spits, who has an impressive string of 11 horses, has relegated the end-January leader Antoine Ermann (FRA, 1,853) by seven points, while Ireland’s Tom Wachman, a triple team gold medallist in the Youth Championships, holds tight in third on 1,820. Wachman’s compatriot Niamh McEvoy is one place off the top-10, having made an impressive leap up from 28th.

FEI Dressage World Youth Ranking - U25: Top two remain unchanged

Lynn Tallulah Nater, who has flown the Swiss flag on her saddle cloth since she first represented her country at the FEI Children’s Championships back in 2018, has retained her place at the head of the U25 rankings with Flynn FRH, the stallion she partnered at last year’s European U25 Championships in Kronberg (GER). Nater, who turned 22 in January, is on 1,818 to give her an 84-point lead over Felicita Simoncic and Four Legends, the Austrian pair that have been campaigning successfully in the senior ranks since October last year. Cecilia Bergåkra (SWE) and My Friend, winners of the U25 Grand Prix and Freestyle on home territory at Gothenburg last month, are up two places to third on 1,695 points.

FEI Dressage World Youth Rankings – Y, J, P, Ch

Young Riders: New face out in front

There’s a newcomer at the head of the Young Riders division, with the Netherlands’ Anniek van Dulst and My First Choice – Dutopia moving up from second to take over at number one with 1,791 points. Team silver medallist at last year’s European Young Riders Championships in Kronberg (GER), Van Dulst is 30 points ahead of compatriot Yasmin Westerink and Amphitryon OLD on 1,761. Denmark’s Anna Have Larsen-Ledet and Finnigan-Vitz, fourth in the previous Rankings, are up one place to third on 1,693.

Juniors: No changes at the top

No changes in the top two Junior slots, with Denmark’s Rikke Maria Schoubye Johansen and the stallion Baunehoejens Carpaccio holding onto their lead with 1,806 points, ahead of the Netherlands’ Britt Kikkert-van der Linde and Jerenzo Texel – team silver medallists at last year’s European Junior Championships in Le Mans (FRA) – on 1,756. Isla Sully and Vagabond de Massa, members of Team GB’s bronze medal quartet in Le Mans, are up from 10th to third on 1,729.

Ponies: Gosmann still unchallenged as number one

Leni-Sophie Gosmann and Diamantini EA WE, winners of team gold and individual silver at last year’s European Pony Championships, remain as undisputed leaders in the Pony Rankings on 1,993 points. The German pair have a comfortable 127-point lead over Steffanie Victoria Horsted Dyrlund and Cosmo Callidus NRW on 1,866, just three clear of the biggest climbers of the month: Lilly Kasselmann and Nasdaq FH. The German pair were in 89th at the end of January, but have now shot up to third on 1,863. Kasselmann and her new ride Nasdaq FH have been based in Florida since January and have an unbeaten record since first showing in Wellington during the third week of the month. Kasselmann is also ninth (down from sixth) on Charly Brown 344.

Children: Versatile Kasselmann holds onto lead

Impressively, Lilly Kasselmann, who is still just 12 and won’t break into the teenage ranks until the third week of June, also tops the Children’s Rankings with Vodka Soda. The pair, who notched up 11 wins from 19 starts last year and were double bronze medallists at the Europeans in Le Mans, are on 2,353 points to give them a 164-point advantage over Shirley Vanerom (BEL) and Ogami van het Beukenhof. With 2,009 points, Anna Schmieder (GER) and Freispiel have moved up from 16th to third.

FEI Eventing U25, Young Riders & Juniors World Rankings

U25: Böckmann heads unchanged top-10

Calvin Böckmann, who has a string of four golds among nine podium finishes at Youth championships since 2014, is unmoving at the helm of the U25 rankings on 276 points. The 24-year-old German made his senior championship debut at the Blenheim Europeans last year, but although he was not a member of the golden German team, he came agonizingly close to an individual medal when finishing fourth with The Phantom of the Opera. Australia’s Oliver Barrett, who won his first 4* long at Sydney last November with Sandhills Briar, is some way adrift in second on 204 points, ahead of Britain’s Alice Casburn, third on 197.

Young Riders: Tight at the sharp end

Elizabeth Barratt, who holds the slimmest of leads in the Young Rider Rankings, is one of no fewer than five British athletes in the division’s top-10, and is also fifth in the U25s. The 20-year-old, part of Team GB’s bronze medal quartet at last year’s European Young Riders in Strzegom (POL), is on 133 points to sit two clear of Ireland’s Momo Sheehy, who was one step ahead of Barratt on the team podium in Poland after finishing individual eighth with HHS Noble Call. Britain’s Jasmine Underwood, individual fifth in Strzegom with Indian Girl G and also part of that British team bronze, is third a further two points behind on 129.

Juniors: European individual medallists head rankings

Ella Howard (GBR), now in her final year as a Junior, has a comfortable 16-point lead in her age rankings and is also 10th in the Young Rider standings. Howard, who turned 18 in the middle of January, took individual gold with Marchwood at last year’s European Juniors in Strzegom and has an end-February rankings tally of 98. Her closest challenger is Matis Cogniet, a member of the golden French team and individual bronze medallist with Vivendi Hero, who has 82 points. Completing the Strzegom individual podium, German silver medallist Pia Sophie Schreiber (Cliemann) holds third in the rankings on 72.

FEI Para Dressage U18 World Individual Ranking: Walsh retains her advantage

Ireland’s Clodagh Walsh, who took over at the top of the FEI Para Dressage U18s in the end-January rankings when former world number one Katie Reilly (IRL) moved into the seniors, has held onto her lead on 1,132 points. The Grade I athlete, who celebrated her 17th birthday at the beginning of last month, made her Team Ireland debut at last year’s Europeans in Ermelo (NED) with Chantal, the now 17-year-old mare she has been partnered with since 2024 after taking over the ride from Ireland’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympian Rosemary Gaffney. In an unchanged top-three, Britain’s Elan Williams – also Grade I – is second on 1,073 points, followed by Hong Kong’s Lok Yee Louie Lam (Grade II) on 904.

FEI Endurance Junior/Young Riders World Ranking: Finland holds onto lead

Finland’s Saana Nieminen, who moved up from second to take over at the top in the end-January youth rankings, has held onto her lead and, impressively, is also 15th in the overall Endurance Riders world standings. Twenty-one-year-old Nieminen, who has completed two world and two European championships for young riders and juniors as well as two world young horse championships, is now tied on 697 points with second-placed Faisal Hameed Dakeel Al Anezi (BRN), up three rungs of the ladder from fifth after a third-place finish with Fizz Fageole in last month’s 3* 160k-kilometre ride at Sakhir (BRN) and a second with Goldy Becherel in the 2* 120-k CIM at the same venue a fortnight later. The UAE’s Essa Rashed Mohammad Saeed Almazrouei, double gold medallist with SW Kapelia at last year’s Asian Youth Games in Bahrain, has dropped a place to third on 673 points.

FEI Endurance Junior/Young Riders Combination World Ranking: New leaders for Kuwait

There are new leaders at the top of the Youth Combination Ranking, which is now headed by Dekheel E D Almutairi (KUW) and Follow Me Font Noire, who also sit ninth among the senior combinations. The pair were 14th in the end-January youth combination rankings, but have moved up to world number one following a fourth-place finish in last month’s 3* 160-kilometre ride at Al Ula (KSA), the venue that will host the senior world championships at the end of November. The Kuwaiti pair have amassed 293 points to put them eight clear of former leaders, Celia Soler Capdevila (ESP) and F Ghazwan Al Shaqab on 285. Rayan Louhichi (TUN) and Karawene Carthage have dropped a place to third on 280 points.

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