HOW do Irish-breds fare in the latest World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) rankings? Not quite as well as in the Hippomundo results, although the Irish Sport Horse (ISH) studbook holds the same top-10 place (ninth) in both sets of show jumping rankings and is just four points behind eighth-placed Deutsches Sportpferd in this WBFSH category.

Simon Scott’s unforgettable year continues as the Donegal man is also the highest-ranked Irish show jumping breeder (24th) in the WBFSH results, thanks to leading Irish-bred, Pacino Amiro.