Dateline: 21st September, 2009 - World Rankings - Showjumping

Germany's Marcus Ehning continues to hold 1st place on the Rolex World Rankings list with Canada's Eric Lamaze moving from 3rd place to 2nd.

Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum dropped to 3rd allowing Lamaze to lep frog over to 2nd.

Australia's Edwina Alexander holds firmly onto 4th place still and McLain Ward hold his 5th place for the USA.

Steve Guerdat moves up two places for Switzerland from 8th to 6th while France's Michel Robert drops from 5th to 7th place.

A huge jump from Pius Schwizer for Switzerland sees him move from 23rd to 8th place and the crowd favourite Albert Zoer moves into the top 10 at number 9, a rise of 4 places.

Beezie Madden for the USA has dropped from 7th to 10th but remains in the top 10.

Jos Lansink has dropped out of the top 10, from 6th to 11th and Germany's Marco Kutscher has dropped from 9th to 12th.

The top ten countries:

Germany has 4 in the top 20
France has 4 in the top 20
USA has 3 in the top 20
Swiss have 2 in the top 20
Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Italy and Brazil have 1 apiece in the top 20.

Pictured left - Germany's Marcus Ehning - World Number 1.

Dateline:21st September, 2009 - World Rankings - Dressage

The Netherlands have a firm grip on worl number one with 30 year old Adelinde Cornelissen - pictured below - and Parzival having moved from 4th position to 1st!

Isabel Werth has dropped from 1st to 2nd, due to no competition currently due to suspension.

Edward Gal has made the most impressive jump from 91st position to 3rd with the much talked about and admired Moorlands Totilas.

Again for the Netherlands, Anky van Grunsven and Salinero are ranked 4th, having dropped from 3rd position.

Sitting in 5th place, having dropped from 2nd, is Steffan Peters for the USA and Great Britain's Laura Bechtolsheimer holds 6th position.

Isabel Werth, this time with Warum Nicht has dropped from 5th to 7th position and Anky and Painted Black have dropped from 7th to 8th.

Germany's Matthias Alexander Rath and Sterntaler UNICEF have gone from 10th to 9th in the current list and Monica Theodorescu also for Germany has dropped from 9th to 10th.

Dateline: 21st September, 2009 - New South Wales, Australia

Our best wishes to Matina Butcher who is in hospital with a fractured neck after a nasty fall down a set of stairs.

We hear from our intrepid reporter, Simon Kale, that Matina is in good spirits considering the severity of the injury.

Matina is the mother of the well known New South Wales identical twin showjumpers, Danielle and Greer and also part of Southern Cross horse transport who are wonderful and much appreciated sponsors of Shoalhaven Showjumping Club Showjumping events.

Pictured right - Matina Butcher who we hope to hear is out and about soon.

Dateline: 21st September, 2009 - World Rankings - Eventing

1 - previously 1 - FOX - PITT, William GBR
2 - previously 2 - KING, Mary GBR
3 - previously 4 - OSTHOLT, Frank GER
4 - previously 10 - JUNG, Michael GER
5 - previously 7 - NICHOLSON, Andrew NZL
6 - previously 3 - JONES, Megan AUS
7 - previously 12 - EDGE, Ruth GBR
8 - previously 5 - DIBOWSKI, Andreas GER
9 - previously 15 - TOWNEND, Oliver GBR
10 - previously 8 - DUTTON, Phillip USA