WBFSH/FEI rankings
Today, the WBFSH Rankings are generally accepted as an essential ingredient of the sport and breeding industry. Both riders and breeders highly value the rankings as the standard for comparing the performance of both competitors and horses.

Please see the final rankings for 2009 as well as rankings for 2008 and previous years by navigating with the buttons on the left.
The Merial Duo Breeding Price was in 2009 given to the breeders of....
Parzival (KWPN)
Hickstead (KWPN)
and in eventing: Sam FWB La Biosthetique (BAD-WÜ), bred by Julia Rau
FEI/WBFSH world rankings for horses and studbooks

From 2004 onwards the International Equestrian Federation, FEI, produces the world-rankings for horses and studbooks. WBFSH delivers the pedigree information of the horses involved, based on corrections from the member studbooks. Please see below the procedure for correcting pedigree data.

The starting date of the rankings is 1st October each year. During the first three months of the calendar year - October, November and December - the final results of the preceding year are published. From January onwards results of the running year are published and updated each month. Rankings are produced for the disciplines showjumping, dressage and eventing. Apart from the individual rankings of each discipline, the studbook rankings are produced.

FEI Rankings and the registered horses

In 2003 FEI sent an excel file with 6.843 horses to WBFSH, where 2.093 were registered as "unknown", so it was obvious that we needed the help of the studbooks to complete the pedigree information. This help is needed each year.

How to correct pedigree information in the rankings:

1. Once a year (in August) FEI sends an excel file with all registered competition horses to WBFSH
2. WBFSH devides the excel file and sends it to each member studbook with only the horses belonging to this studbook + all unknown horses to all studbooks.
3. The studbook has to complete and return the pedigree data to WBFSH
4. WBFSH send the corrected excel file with all horses to FEI
5. FEI corrects the new information in the database
6. FEI produces rankings

As this is a very comprehensive work, we kindly ask you to pay attention to the excel file coming from WBFSH and only to send in the missing/corrected information once a year.

The WBFSH breeding guide

Because of the active web-rankings published during the year, the WBFSH breeding guide CD is no longer produced.