Ben Maher and the AES mare Diva II (Kannan) are back in full force. Together they won the 1.55m class in Madrid. The same can be said for Bertram allen and Molly Malone (Kannan). This mare won two cars in one weekend at the H&M horse show in Stockholm. On Saturday she won the big class and on Sunday the Grand Prix. Argento (Arko III) and John Whitaker were placed in the top ten both classes and won the first class on Friday. Newton Abbot (Converter) of Angelie von Essen placed second in this. 

Belgium has won the Furusiyya Nations Cup final in Barcelona thanks to a double clear of Gregory Wathelet and his AES graded stallion Conrad de Hus (Con Air). The team wins half a million euros and Wathelet grabs the extra bonus of 200.000 euro for his double clear performance after Thursday and Saturday’s two rounds. The British ended up second one rail behind the Red Devils. The three AES horses collected only eight points after a clear performance of leading man Joe Clee (Utamaro d’Ecaussines) and four point scores for the AES registered horses Diva II and Spirit T of Ben Maher and Jessica Mendoza. The World and European Champions and the title holders in this Furusiyya League, the riders of the Netherlands ended up in third this time.

We are proud of the outstanding performance of our AES registered horses and graded stallions, who continue to dominate the leader boards at international Grand Prix competitions this year, culminating in a thoroughly convincing display on the first day of the European Championships 2015 in Aachen (Germany). After a breath-taking first round that had everyone on the edges of their seats, Joe Clee and his AES graded stallion  Utamaro d’Ecaussines  are currently ranked 3rd. On the 4th place we find Gregory Whatelet and his AES graded stallion  Conrad de Hus . Their excellent performance was closely matched by Bertram Allen and his AES registered mare  Molly Mallone V  who ended the day in 5th place. Ben Maher and his AES registered mare  Diva II  are currently ranked 7th.  In a hard fought first round of the competition, Jessica Mendoza and her AES mare  Spirit-T  performed a very fast round but had an unfortunate 8 points after two fences went down. They are currently ranked on the 56th place followed by Pieter Devos and his AES registered gelding  Dylano , who are ranked 68th. We are extremely proud that, after this exciting and hard fought first round, 4 the top 10 horses are AES registered or graded and congratulate our dedicated breeders, owners, trainers and riders in their success! 

Belgium wins the second Nations Cup of the year after a jump off against the Swiss and the Americans. The three countries finished with four points after two rounds. Beezie Madden missed a turn in the jump-off. Janika Sprunger went clear, but Pieter Devos en Dylano (Cento Lano) from Belgium went faster and so Belgium grabbed the victory. The British riders didn’t do well. Only Ben Maher jumped double clear on Diva II (Kannan), an AES mare. Michael Whitaker had one clean performance on Calcourt Falklund (Oklund). In the opening class on Thursday Holly Gillot and Jb’s Hot Stuff (Locarno) placed third.

The three AES horses of the British team in the Nations Cup of Rotterdam jumped clean in the second round, which brought the country the victory. It’s already the third time that Great Britain and its AES horses won a Furusiyya Nations Cup after five stages this season. In La Baule Utamaro d’Ecaussines jumped double clear. In Rome Argento did and in Rotterdam Utamaro performed the double zero again. Joe Clee and his AES approved stallion by Diamant de Semilly produced one of only four faultless efforts. Also the AES registered horses Diva II and Spirit T went clean in the second round with their riders Ben Maher and Jessica Mendoza. Michael Whitaker and Cassionato were the fourth pair of the team.

The AES stallion Argento (Arko III) tops the Hippomundo Rankings, based on internationally won prize money since January 1, 2015. John Whitaker won the GP of Hong Kong in February on the stallion. Fibonacci (Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum) is in second spot. Also on three is an AES horse, named Diva II (Ben Maher). AES also tops the studbook list. We don’t have the biggest number of horses, but our horses collect more prize money on average than any other studbook in the world!

Last night saw Ben Maher and the British Bred 10 year-old chestnut mare  Diva II , owned by Tatiana Korsakova,  clinch a brilliant win over Germany’s Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum to secure the €372,000 FEI World Cup Grand Prix in Wellington, Florida by just a fraction of a second. This big achievement made the combination rise to a spectaculair 4th place in the HorseTelex Results rankings which are still led by Argento and John Whitaker. ​ The final combination to come forward in the jump off, it had looked like Meredith couldn’t be beaten but Ben, who put his foot on the accelerator from the start, managed to break the finish line in a time of 46.03 seconds.  This was just enough to relegate Meredith, the first of the three to go in the final round, into second place with her time of 46.31 seconds.   Laura Kraut for the USA took third place with her longstanding partner Cedric. With such huge prize money at stake there wasn't an empty seat in the grandstands at this superb venue which seemed all the more atmospheric with this major competition being played out under spotlights.  Alan Wade from Ireland was the course designer that had tested the riders to the hilt, hitting the note perfectly in terms of giving the spectators a thrilling class with it having culminated in a three way jump off from a field of just over forty. Talking afterwards Ben commented  “It was a pretty quick turnaround for me. I was second from the end so Diva did not have much time to recover from the first round.  The jump off was probably my best ever round on Diva, She’s come a long way this circuit”. Source: British Showjumping

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

Ben Maher has won a GP during the Vilamoura tour for the second time aboard Diva II (Kannan). It was the final class of the four weeks running Vilamoura Champions Tour, a new autumn tour. Last week Maher was competing at HOYS in Birmingham, but a few days before he also won the second Vilamoura GP aboard the AES mare Diva . Laura Renwick placed second in the final one. Katty King was in third.