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9 Year Olds - Developing Horse Series

Vision of the USEF Eventing Developing Horse Series

The USEF Eventing Developing Horse Series seeks to strengthen the U.S. Eventing Pathway by providing an accessible and engaging platform that identifies and tracks promising young horses as they progress towards the upper levels of the sport. The Series aims to cultivate a deeper talent pool of horses capable of achieving Pathway Program criteria and ultimately participating on future U.S. Eventing Teams.

Understanding the Leaderboard

The Nine-Year-Old leaderboard is open to horses that are nine years old, per their FEI recorded age. The final score on the leaderboard is identified in December of the respective calendar year and utilizes the average of the two lowest finishing scores as outlined below:

From January 2026 through December 2026 - Scores can be achieved at any U.S. CCI4* or CCI5* competition.

Competition Year

Ranking	Horse	Rider	Owner(s)	Breeder	Score 1	Score 2	Average
1	MONTPELLIER SCAIS	Alexandra Knowles	O'BRIEN, KATHERINE B	BEN WENTINK	35	68.1	51.5
2	DHI ROCKETMAN	Rory Frangos	FRANGOS , RORY		47.6	64.3	56
3	CONNER	Isabelle Bosley	MARTIN, KAREN	WERNER BEHRENS	44.8	74.7	59.7
4	SPIRO P	Tamra Smith	SYKES, MEGAN WALLACE, DONNA	M.N. VAN DER PAS	49.4	114.3	81.9
5	THAT'S ME Z	Tommy Greengard	PFEIFFER, ANDREA GREENGARD, TOMMY	SIMONS ROELAND	45.5		45.5
6	FERNHILL ESMERELDA	Jonathan Holling	HOLLING, JONATHAN MCGRATH, CHUCK TEAM REBECCA, LLC	GEMMA STACK AND ANNA DUNNE PURCELL	71		71
7	MONBEG ZEBEDEE	Allison Springer	SPRINGER, ALLISON THE ZEBEDEE GROUP	MARTI RUDD	80.6		80.6