HOST nation Germany celebrated its second team gold medal at the FEI World Championships on home ground, after its dressage team matched the show jumping team’s win. And its studbooks covered themselves in glory too.

The leading studbooks at the Dressage Championships? Not surprisingly, it’s the KWPN, the studbook that specialises in producing dressage horses with 28 on the start list; followed by Germany’s Oldenburg studbook (18). The Portuguese Lusitano studbook had a strong showing with nine representatives, followed by two familiar sights in dressage breeding: the Hannoverian Verband (eight) and Denmark’s DWB (five).