In Jumping world rankings, Scott Brash of Great Britain, who won the Grand Prix on Hello Chadora Lady in Paris last month, has held onto the Kent Farrington on Greya winning the $!  million Grand Prix (Photo by Sportfot)number one spot in the Longines Rankings, but his advantage over second-placed Kent Farrington has shrunk.

Brash’s total of 3,497 has him 196 points clear of Farrington, who won the end-March $1,000,000 Wellington Grand Prix on Greya to shave off 45 points and creep closer to the Scotsman.

There’s a change immediately behind the leading pair, with the 2025 European champion Richard Vogel taking over third from Ben Maher of Great Britain after a run of four victories for the German at Ocala and Wellington.

Vogel’s 3,187 puts him 70 points ahead of Maher, with Belgium’s Gilles Thomas staying fifth on 2,989.

 

NINA MALLEVAEY of France keeps her best female crown, up one place to sixth on 2,955, with Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam, with 2,924, also rising after climbing up two places into seventh.

Frenchman Julien Epaillard remains eighth on 2,901 ahead of Paris 2024 Olympic champion Christian Kukuk of Germany, who has dropped from sixth to ninth on 2,890.

Rounding out the top 10 is Laura Kraut on 2,690, at the expense of McLain Ward, who is now down in 12th on 2,660 after missing weeks of competition due to breaking a small bone in his hand and hurting his back in a mid-March jump-off fall at Wellington.

Team USA still leads all its rivals in the Longines League of Nations ranking on 15,258 points.

Second-placed Belgium has edged closer to the USA’s lead on 14,624 and now sits 634 points behind, compared to the 769 which separated the top two teams at the end of February.

France moved over Britain into third on 14,062, and the Britsare  now fourth on 13,942.

For the rest of the top10, the placings remain the same, with Ireland fifth on 13,784, ahead of Germany (13,537), Netherlands (11,787), Switzerland (11,203), Italy (9,902) and Brazil (9,718).

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour  of Denmark leads in Dressage rankings, with Christian Simonson 12th and Benjamin Ebeling 32nd.

In Eventing, Britain’s Harry Meade, who has five entries for next month’s Badminton and three of those cross-entered for Kentucky, remains comfortably out in front of the rankings on 588 points.

Boyd Martin, who has three horses listed for Kentucky, one of which is also entered for Badminton, holds on in second with 537 points, ahead of reigning European champion Laura Collett on 469.

Collett, who is aiming for Badminton with her Burghley 10th-placed ride Bling, is currently recovering from surgery after a cross country training fall last month.

In an unchanged top 10, Tim Price of New Zealand is fourth on 455, ahead of Ros Canter, Great Britain, fifth on 453, and Tom McEwen, Great Britain, in sixth with 427.

In Para Dressage, it's no surprise that Paris 2024 Paralympic Games triple gold medalist Fiona Howard is still the dominant force in the rankings, despite having undergone kidney surgery at the back end of last year resulting in seven weeks hospitalization.

The 27-year-old Grade II rider boosted her points tally to 1,646 with another clean sweep and new records, this time on home turf in Wellington last month, but with a new temporary partner, the mare Vianne who is normally ridden by Howard’s long-time trainer Kate Shoemaker.

Germany’s Heidemarie Dresing (Grade II) holds onto second on an unchanged 1,514, with Shoemaker (Grade IV) also maintaining her end-February 1,496.

The USA stays in the lead in the team rankings on 1,344 points, with Great Britain (1,326) and Germany (1,300) still second and third.