IT most definitely was a good year for the Irish Sport Horse (ISH) studbook in the 2022 WBFSH rankings: the leading eventing studbook title reclaimed and a top-10 result in show jumping from a young team of horses, since further enhanced by HHS Calais and Mikey Pender’s sparkling win on the Longines Champions Tour last weekend.

Only three studbooks have toppled the ISH from its eventing studbook perch since the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) rankings first began in 1994. The ISH record run was broken by the Hannoverian studbook in 2010 and then twice by the Selle Français (2014, 2021) and KWPN (2018, 2020).