Cathrine Laudrup Dufour (DEN) and Mount St John Freestyle, seen here on their way to individual silver in the Grand Prix Freestyle at last year’s FEI Dressage European Championship 2025 in Crozet (FRA), remain unchallenged at the head of the athlete and horse world rankings. © FEI/Leanjo de Koster

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 League of Nations™ Ranking: Team USA extends its lead

While there’s some reshuffling of the pack further down the Longines League of Nations™ (LLN) Ranking, the top two countries remain unchanged, with Team USA extending its lead over Belgium by a further 248 to establish an 882-point buffer over their closest rivals. The LLN ranking is calculated based on the combined points of each nation’s six best Athletes, of which at least one must be a U25 Athlete, and with the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final winner and newly-minted world number one Kent Farrington at the head of their pack, Team USA never looked likely to relinquish its hold on the top spot with its tally of 15,606. The second-placed Belgian sextet, which has racked up 14,724 points, also boasts some serious talent, including all four members of last year’s European gold medal team.

Team GBR, relegated by France in the end-March ranking, has vaulted back up into third on 14,031, to push Les Bleus down into fourth on 13,915. And there’s a further turnaround immediately below, with Germany (13,828) moving up into fifth at the expense of Ireland (13,709). The Netherlands remains seventh on 11,777, ahead of Switzerland (11,236) in eighth. Last of the rearrangements comes in ninth and 10th, with Brazil jumping ahead on 9,945 to move clear of Italy on 9,887.

FEI Dressage World Rankings: Laudrup-Dufour holds on as number one

Denmark’s Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour, who took over as world number one in the end-March rankings, has held onto her top spot after maintaining a 100% strike rate with six wins from six starts this season. The three-time Olympian, who led Denmark to team silver in Paris 2024, remains comfortably out in front on 2,018 points, but there’s a new understudy immediately behind her, with a former rankings leader Charlotte (Lottie) Fry (GBR) up two places to second on 1,971. Justin Verboomen (BEL), European champion and standout star of 2025, who posted an impressive double with Zonik Plus at last month’s French 5* in Fontainebleau, is 11 points behind in third after dropping one place. Germany’s Isabell Werth (1,908) is also down a slot in fourth, ahead of the FEI World Cup™ Final podium topper Becky Moody (GBR, 1,790), Fort Worth third-placed Sandra Sysojeva (POL, 1,583) and runner-up Christian Simonson (USA, 1,578), now in seventh from 12th.

FEI Dressage World Ranking – Horses: Mount St John Freestyle unchallenged

It’s no surprise to see top horse Mount St John Freestyle mirroring her partner Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour’s hold on the number one spot after the pair posted a back-to-back double of wins on their two outings this season at the Herning 5* and Hagen 4*. The mare’s tally of 2,018 points leaves her well clear of two stallions, Glamourdale (Charlotte Fry, GBR) up from fourth to second on 1,971, and Zonik Plus (Justin Verboomen, BEL) down a place to third with 1,960. Wendy de Fontaine (Isabell Werth, GER) has also dropped one rung to fourth on 1,908, with FEI World Cup™ Final winner Jagerbomb (Becky Moody, GBR) holding fifth on 1,790.

FEI Eventing World Athlete Ranking: Meade’s lead slims down to 28 points

Great Britain’s Harry Meade, who finished just outside the top-10 in last month’s Lexington 5* with Superstition in 12th, is still out in front in the world rankings on 521 points, but the chasing pack is getting closer. And there’s a new face heading that following group in New Zealand’s Tim Price, who has moved up from fourth to second and just 28 points off the pace after partnering his 2025 Aachen winner Vitaly to fourth on the Kentucky Bluegrass. Double Olympic team gold medallist and European champion Laura Collett (GBR) is steady in third on 469, 16 points ahead of her Paris 2024 team mate Ros Canter, up one slot to fourth. The USA’s Boyd Martin, second at the end of March, has dropped to fifth on 431, while compatriot Will Coleman, who claimed the Lexington honours on 5* first-timer Diabolo, is just outside the top-10, up eight places to 11th. 

FEI Para Dressage World Individual & Team: USA dominance continues

The USA’s Paris 2024 Paralympic Games leading lady Fiona Howard (Grade II) remains untouched at the top of the Para Dressage world individual rankings on 1,646 points, and has now been joined in second by fellow American Kate Shoemaker (Grade IV), 44 points in arrears. Heidemarie Dresing (GER) is down one slot in third on 1,581, while Britain’s Mari Durward-Akhurst, having gone through the Grade I card at Hartpury (GBR) last month, is up a place to fourth on 1,519. Britain’s prolific Grade II medallist Lee Pearson is back in the top-10 following a hat-trick of wins in Waregem (BEL), currently sitting eighth (from 13th) on 1,396 points, while Sweden’s Grade IV European silver medallist Louise Etzner Jakobsson has made the most impressive move, up from 74th to 10th after a series of top placings in Aachen (GER) last month. Howard and Shoemaker also top their respective Grades and, with team wins in Florida at Wellington in March and Ocala last month, Team USA has also maintained its number one slot in the nations on 1,344 points. Great Britain (1,316) and Germany (1,303) are second and third.

FEI Driving World Rankings - Four-in-Hand / Pairs / Singles: New numbers ones in Pairs and Singles

Germany’s Lars Schwitte, who has won both his outings this year in Kladruby nad Labem (CZE) and Exloo (NED), has taken over at the top of the Pairs rankings on 113 points with a clear lead. It’s much tighter behind him, with just a single point separating the Netherlands’ Stan van Eijk (91) from Germany’s Anna Sandmann (90). There’s a familiar name at the head of the Singles rankings, with Kelly Bruder back in the world number one slot she vacated in September last year. After a fourth-place finish with Backstage CQ at the French 3* in Selestat, the Canadian’s 75 points have boosted her six places to take the lead by just four points over Anne Unzeitig (GER), up from fourth. Former leader Marion Vignaud is a single point behind in third. And the face at the front of the Four-in-Hand rankings is probably even more well-known, with Australia’s Boyd Exell still unchallenged on 193 points. Dries Degrieck (BEL) has overtaken Bram Chardon (NED) for second, although the two drivers are tied on 179.

FEI Endurance Riders and Trainer World Rankings: Bahraini trainer Janahi takes over at top

French athlete Melody Theolissat, who picked up two top-10 placings on home turf in Saumur last month, including a win in the 2* 120-kilometre CIM with Kais de Jalima, has held on at the head of the Riders Rankings. Her tally of 1,082 leaves her 97 points clear of the late Yanno Mair (ARG), while Theolissat’s compatriot Elena Paton is up five places to third on 933 points after partnering Zabibi Cabirat to a close second in the 3* 160-kilometre at Saumur. Bahrain’s Isa Hameed Dakheel Al Anezi is a newcomer in the top-10, in at seventh (from 12th) with 828 points after notching up six completions so far this season, including a 3* 160-kilometre win with Guess des Milandes at Sakhir (BRN). In the combination rankings, Saif Ahmed Mohammed Ali Almazrouei (UAE) and Bullio Quasillo remain in front on 485 points, 129 ahead of the Tunisian combination of Rayan Louhichi and Karawene Carthage, fifth in last month’s Saumur 160-kilometre, while the winners of that ride – Margot Thomas (FRA) and Galipettes J’M – are up 68 places to third on 336.

There’s a new name out front in the Trainers Rankings, with Bahrain’s Ahmed Jaafar Janahi galloping up from 24th to take over the lead on 1,328 points, at the expense of former leader Bhanwar Singh Khiv Singh Rathore (IND) on 1,213.