Show jumping age series sire rankings for the 2019/20 – 2021/22 seasons

Chris Rogers and Ike Baker

School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University

The 2021-22 season five-year old age series

Detailed examination of the 5-year-old horses from just the 2021-22 season revealed that 96 horses started in the series classes, of which 66 horses obtained points (68% of starters).  While the dataset is relatively small and so some caution should be used with generalisations it does provide an indication of performance at this age series level compared to data from some of the European nations which have much larger equestrian populations.  The metrics describe young horses learning their trade as showjumpers.  These horses started in an age series class on average 5 times during the season.  The average clear rate [(Clear rounds for a horse / total starts for a horse)] was 32% for all of the starters in the series.  When examining only the horses that obtained, points the average clear rate was 46% (effectively a clear round every 2^nd start).  Some notable horses that had clear rates greater than 70% were, Classified II (88%), Double J Odin (80%), Corvette ECPH (75%) & Riverhills Legend (70%), (NB: all four horses had at least eight starts).

Sires Rankings 2019/20 – 2021-22

The following represents the sires rankings based on horses that jumped clear rounds (and therefore obtained points) in the 5- and 6-year-old age series show jumping classes.

Over the last three seasons there were 351 horses that obtained points in the 5- and 6-year -old show jumping series.  These horses were sired by 114 different sires.  Almost half the sires recorded had only one progeny that obtained points (n=52 sires) and 31 sires only had two progeny representing them.  The most popular sires were Cassiano (28 progeny), Euro sport Centavos (27 progeny), Corofino 11 (22 progeny), Cartel GNZ (14 progeny) and Kannan (13 progeny). .

Across all three seasons the five-year olds had an average of 3 point scoring starts per horse per season (range 1 to 11).  The three horses that had 11 point scoring starts per season were all from the Double J stables (Double J Hurricane, Double J Typhoon and Double J Odin). 

The six-year olds had an average of 3.6 point scoring starts per horse per season (range 1 to 14).

Sires Ranking based on Total points earned during the last 3 seasons (2019/20 – 2021-22) in 5 & 6 year old series classes

Ranking based on Average progeny points earned

Sires Ranking based on Average points earned during the last 3 seasons (2019/20 – 2021-22) in 5 & 6-year old series classes