FEI Classics

The FEI Classics ™ were created in 2008 by the International Equestrian Federation FEI as a series of events in the eventing sport . The five most important eventing tournaments in the northern hemisphere were selected as venues, all of which are held as CCI **** . In 2011, the sixth CCI **** tournament in the world was added with the Australian International Three Day Event . From 2008 to 2013, the major British bank HSBC was the title sponsor of the series (HSBC FEI Classics ™). In June 2017 it was decided to suspend the tournament series for the 2017/2018 season.

Venues

With the start of the series, the calendar year was selected as the season of the FEI Classics. This was changed with the start of the Australian special stage, now the season began in October and November with the CCI **** Pau.

• Les Etoiles de Pau (Aquitaine, France)
• Australian International Three Day Event (Adelaide, Australia)
• Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event (Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America)
• Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (Gloucestershire County, UK)
• Luhmuhlen CCI **** presented by E.ON Avacon (Lower Saxony, Germany)
• Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (Lincolnshire, UK)

Scoring system and prize money

The ten best riders at each station received evaluation points according to the following system (for each rider, only the result that he had achieved with his horse that was best placed here was evaluated ):

• 1st: 15 rating points
• 2nd: 12 rating points
• 3rd: 10 rating points
• 4th: 8 rating points
• 5th: 6 rating points
• 6 .: 5 rating points
• 7 .: 4 evaluation points
• 8 .: 3 evaluation points
• 9 .: 2 evaluation points
• 10 .: 1 evaluation point

The five best placed riders on this ranking list (regardless of the horse) received a total of US $ 333,000 in prize money after completing the annual ranking . This was the largest prize money that was paid out annually in eventing.

The prize money was distributed as follows:

• 1st: US $ 150,000
• 2 .: US $ 75,000
• 3rd: US $ 50,000
• 4th: US $ 33,000
• 5th: US $ 25,000

List of ranking winners

season	Ranking winner	Runner-up	Third place
2008	William Fox-Pitt 40 rating points	Nicolas Touzaint 27 rating points	Frank Ostholt 22 rating points
2009	Oliver Townend 36 rating points	Dirk Schrade 25 rating points	Andreas Dibowski 24 rating points
2010	William Fox-Pitt 39 rating points	Andreas Dibowski 37 rating points	Caroline Powell 21 rating points
2011	Mary King 46 rating points	William Fox-Pitt 40 rating points	Andrew Nicholson 26 rating points
2011/2012	William Fox-Pitt 40 rating points	Andrew Nicholson 39 rating points	Alison Springer 17 rating points
2012/2013	Andrew Nicholson 67 rating points	William Fox-Pitt 44 rating points	Jonathan Paget 42 rating points
2013/2014	William Fox-Pitt 38 rating points	Sam Griffiths 25 rating points	Oliver Townend 23 rating points
2014/2015	Ingrid Klimke 42 rating points	Michael Jung 40 rating points	Jonelle Price 26 rating points
2015/2016	Michael Jung 42 rating points	Tim Price 26 rating points	Andrew Nicholson 18 rating points
2016/2017	Michael Jung 39 rating points	Maxime Livio 33 rating points	Nicola Wilson 20 rating points

Web links

• FEI Classics website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Following the Eventing Committee's proposal and FEI Bureau's approval in June 2017, the FEI Classics ™ Eventing is suspended as of 2018 for further review to integrate the new event classification and to allow redefinition of a series concept.", See FEI Classics website