THIS week we rewind back to the FEI World Championship for dressage and jumping, hosted in Herning, to see the leading bloodlines and studbooks.

It was an interesting mix of results with both royalty and not-so-fashionable underdogs of the sport horse world seen in the medallists’ breeding; King Edward, the gold medal show jumping champion by the Hanoverian stallion Edward, a sire better known for producing dressage horses, and a whole new range of sires coming through from the Jazz and Sandro Hit era in the dressage ranks, led by Lord Leatherdale.