Richard Vogel, who took over as world number one after that incredible German Team gold at the FEI World Championships 2026 in Aachen, has now extended what was a 73-point lead a month ago to a 108-point advantage over the USA’s Kent Farrington.
Richie Vogel on United Touch S (Photo by Benjamin Clark)In September, Vogel on Cloudio won 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 in the lead on 3,427 points, with former number one Kent Farrington 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, Canada and a second-place finish in the opening leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup North American League at Traverse City with James Kann Cruz, is back up from fifth to third on 3,171 at the expense of Scott Brash of Great Britain, who has slid a place to fourth on 3,097.
NEWLY minted world champion Steve Guerdat of Switzerland is down a place in fifth on 3,082, followed by Ben Maher of Great Britain, who remains in sixth on 2,966, despite winning the big money in Calgary with Enjeu de Grisien.
Kent Farrington on Greya McLain Ward is up two places in seventh with 2,868, while Nina Mallevaey of France, still wearing the leading female athlete crown, is up two slots to eighth on 2,847.
After taking the Greenwich 5* Grand Prix on Sept. 29 with Corbie V.V., Israel’s Daniel Bluman returns to the top-10, up from 13th to ninth on 2,787, and Daniel Deusser of Germany rounds out the elite circle of 10, dropping two places to 10th on 2,777.
Laura Kraut dropped two places to 14th.
Team USA continues to head the Longines League of Nations 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 League of Nations.
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 10th on 9,569.
In FEI Dressage World Rankings, Catherine Laudrup-Dufour of Denmark maintains her lead on 2,058 to leave her 21 points clear of the 2025 European double gold medallist Justin Verboomen of Belgium on 2,037.
Christian Simonson is the highest ranked U.S. rider in 22nd.
Boyd Martin on Tsetserleg (Photo by Shannon Brinkman)In FEI Eventing World Athlete Ranking, New Zealand’s Tim Price is holding on to the world number one spot, but he’s got company right behind him, with 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, and there’s another Team USA rider getting 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 his Dressage score 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 of Great Britain, 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, whose Burghley podium finish with HSH Blake has boosted her up from 12th to sixth on 426, just ahead of Ros Canter of Great Britain on 409.
Gemma Stevens of Great Britain is up from 25th to eighth on 394, followed by Katie Magee of Great Britain who has leapt up from 34th to ninth on 391.
In FEI Para Dressage World Individual & Team, Kate Shoemaker and Team USA stay on top.
With a break in the Para Dressage calendar after the World Championships in Aachen, there are no changes at the head of either the Individual or Team rankings, which are both headed by the USA.
Triple gold medalist 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 rider 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, and Denmark holds onto fourth with 1,329, just four points clear of the Netherlands in fifth on 1,325.
in FEI Driving World Rankings - Four-in-Hand 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, has overtaken Boyd Exell ofAustralia 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 of Netherlands holds onto fourth with 113.
Chester Weber is seventh with 90 points.
