Last weekends victory in Hong Kong by John Whitaker and his AES bred ELITE stallion Argento made the combination rise to the very top of the Horsetelex Results Rankings. With the incredible amount of €247.706 earned prize money in only six shows since the 1th of January 2015 this makes an unbelievable average of €41.284 earned per show. Second on the list is the Holsteiner gelding Carlo 273 with €135.479 earned. 12 th on the list is the AES approved stallion Romanov with a total of €67.042 followed by the AES registered mare DIVA II on the 13 th place with €65.811 earned. Molly Mallone V is on the 21th place with €46.862 total prize money earned since January 2015. The Anglo European Studbook is ranked 6 th on the studbook rankings with a total of €503.709 prize money earned with only 90 competing horses. This makes an average of €5.596 for each horse, the highest average of any other studbook! On the first place of the studbook rankings is the KWPN with a total of €1.288.891 prize money earned, they however needed 1112 competing horses to reach this amount which gives an average of €1.159

The Heartbreaker descendant Romanov , a seventeen-year-old Elite stallion for AES, has convincingly won the World Cup qualifier of Bordeaux. Under the saddle of the Irish youngster Bertram Allen, he cut off more than a second of Ludger Beerbaum’s leading time. Bertram had a super show in Bordeaux, as he also won the opening class on Wild Thing. His world cup victory brings him right on top of the leaderboard standings of the Western European World Cup league, with only one stage in Gothenburg to come.  

Not the GP at Saturday, but a 1.55m class with jump-off on Sunday was the last class of the Global Champions Tour contest in Lausanne, Switzerland. Abdullah Al Sharbatly from Saoudi Arabia jumped to victory in it aboard the chestnut mare Andrea ( Marome ), bred by Gert-Jan Bruggink.  The AES approved stallion Romanov ( Hearbreaker ) placed third with Bertram Allen. In the Global Champions Tour GP yesterday John Whitaker and Argento ( Arko III ) just missed out the win, ending up in second position, behind Ludger Beerbaum and Chaman.

The Grand Prix of the Longines tournament at Hickstead, also known as the King George V Gold Cup, was won by a woman for the first time in history. Until 2008 the King George Cup was only open to male riders. Female riders were only invited for the Queen Elizabeth II Cup op Saturday. Since both sexes can do both classes, the King George V Gold Cup was never won by a woman, until yesterday. Beezie Madden won on Cortes C. Three AES graded stallions followed in the trace of the winning pair. The AES Elite stallion Romanov placed second under the saddle of Bertram Allen of Ireland, who turned nineteen years old just two days ago. Marcus Ehning placed third on Plot Blue, also a Dutch born horse, and an elite stallion from AES. Fifth place went to a much younger, AES licensed stallion Golden Hawk (ex-Figo de Muze), the new top horse of Shane Breen after he sold Confident of Victory to Russia this week. Earlier in Hickstead on Saturday Robert Whitaker won a class on Catwalk IV (Colman), a German stallion approved by AES. Ben Maher was in third spot on the first day with the AES born mare Diva II (Kannan).