What the world ranking might tell us about Olympic hopes

With serious show jumping team action still some time away in 2020, there are no early season pointers to go on seven months out from the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Last week in this column it was mentioned that Irish show jumpers notched more clear rounds in team competitions in 2019 than those from any other country— with the qualification that the competitions concerned were not just the top-level events but across all categories, and it had to be taken into account that not all nations contested the same number of events.