Barcelona 2026 by the Numbers: Who's Entered for the League of Nations Final
Iron Dames Combella, Donatello d'Auge and Cloudio lead the CSIO5* Barcelona entries within three Elo points.
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Top of the entries on Elo
Three horses, three points apart
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773
Iron Dames Combella, Sophie Hinners
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771
Donatello d’Auge, Julien Epaillard
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770
Cloudio, Richard Vogel
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Three Elo points separate the top three horses entered for Barcelona. Iron Dames Combella leads on 773 for Germany’s Sophie Hinners. Donatello d’Auge and Julien Epaillard sit on 771. Cloudio and Richard Vogel are on 770, the highest rating of that horse’s career.
The Real Club de Polo hosts the Longines League of Nations Final from 1 to 4 October. France, Germany, Great Britain, Brazil, Ireland, Belgium, the United States and Italy qualified. Spain joins them as host. Great Britain are the defending champions after Scott Brash and Hello Jefferson jumped the deciding clear in 2025.
There are 62 horse and rider combinations on the entries with results at CSI5*/Major Championship 1.60m Grand Prix and World Cup level. Between them they have jumped 875 career rounds at this level and gone clear in 28% of them.
The top ten entries by Elo
Germany have four of the top eight. Hinners has two of them.
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| Horse and rider | Nation | Elo | Clears |
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| Iron Dames Combella
Sophie Hinners
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GER | 773 | 6/16 (38%) |
| Donatello d’Auge
Julien Epaillard
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FRA | 771 | 18/51 (35%) |
| Cloudio
Richard Vogel
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GER | 770 | 8/16 (50%) |
| Iron Dames My Prins
Sophie Hinners
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GER | 764 | 7/15 (47%) |
| Hello Folie
Scott Brash
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GBR | 764 | 5/12 (42%) |
| Major Tom
Rodrigo Pessoa
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BRA | 759 | 8/24 (33%) |
| GL Events Dorai d’Aiguilly
Olivier Perreau
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FRA | 754 | 9/44 (20%) |
| Toys
Jörne Sprehe
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GER | 754 | 1/13 (8%) |
| Chevaux Primavera Imperio Egipcio
Stephan de Freitas Barcha
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BRA | 752 | 9/12 (75%) |
| Dinozo Imperio Egipcio
Stephan de Freitas Barcha
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BRA | 748 | 4/8 (50%) |
Clears are clear rounds from each combination’s career results in 1.60m CSI5*/Major Championship Grand Prix and World Cup classes.
16 of the world’s top 100
Sixteen of the entered horses sit in the EquiRatings top 100 by Elo. The highest is Iron Dames Combella, joint 13th in the world.
Germany account for six of the 16. Belgium, Italy, the United States and Spain have no top-100 horse among their entries.
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| Nation | In top 100 | Highest ranked | World rank |
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| Germany | 6 | Iron Dames Combella | =13 |
| France | 4 | Donatello d’Auge | =16 |
| Brazil | 3 | Major Tom | =35 |
| Great Britain | 2 | Hello Folie | =25 |
| Ireland | 1 | Chatolinue PS | =66 |
Germany have the deepest entry
The Final runs over two rounds and the best three scores in each team count. So the three strongest horses a nation brings matter most. On the entries, Germany’s top three average 769 Elo. France are next on 757 and Brazil third on 753.
Germany’s nine entered horses also carry 20 podiums between them, the most of any nation. Great Britain defend their title with the fourth-best top three on paper. Brash’s Hello Folie is at a career-high 764.
Cloudio is the form horse
That is seven of his eight career clears at the level, all in the last year. His Elo of 770 is the highest of his career and third best on the entries. He also has three podiums at the level.
Nine clears from twelve
Chevaux Primavera Imperio Egipcio has the best clear rate in the entries among horses with ten or more rounds. Stephan de Freitas Barcha’s horse is clear 75% of the time at 1.60m CSI5* Grand Prix level, on courses that average a 30% clear rate. His second entry, Dinozo Imperio Egipcio, is clear in four of eight.
The most proven horse in the entries
Donatello d’Auge has been classified 51 times at 1.60m CSI5*/Major Championship Grand Prix and World Cup level. Nobody in the entries has more. His six wins and ten podiums are also the most. Epaillard rode him on the French team that won the final qualifier at St Tropez, which put France top of the standings coming into the Final.
Four to watch
Cloudio (Richard Vogel, GER). Career-high 770 and clear in eight of 16.
Iron Dames My Prins (Sophie Hinners, GER). Averages 2.9 penalties a round against a course average of 7.4.
Hello Folie (Scott Brash, GBR). Career-high 764 and two wins from 11 classifications.
Major Tom (Rodrigo Pessoa, BRA). Career-high 759 and averages 3.7 penalties against a course average of 7.8.
Germany have the depth. France have the most proven horse. Brazil have the best clear rate. Barcelona decides which of those counts.
Clear rates, penalties, wins and podiums are career combination results in 1.60m CSI5*/Major Championship Grand Prix and World Cup classes. Elo is each horse’s current EquiRatings rating. World rankings from the EquiRatings top 100 horses by Elo at the time of writing.