Hippomundo looks at stats from this strange year where the top-earning show jumper made €281,226 compared to 2019's €1,350,616.

Thirteen five- to eight-year-olds with impressive top-level wins and international placings will go under the hammer November 21st.

The sale, in its 26th year, attracted over 400 registered bidders and saw the top-selling performance horse go for $37,000.

Plagued by internet problems that interrupted the online bidding, clients resorted to telephone bids and the sale recorded a €42,000 top seller.

More than half of the auction's well-bred foals and horses of riding age will take up residence outside of Germany, including Mexico and the USA.

Impeccably-bred foals and horses of riding age will be offered for sale on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3-4; you can review the collection today.

The filly Cergy LVP Z was sold online to undisclosed Canadian clients for 46,000 euro, while a Hickstead colt is headed to South Africa.

This year's collection represents some of the best international pedigrees including Quick Star, Cardento, Concorde, Darco, Donnerhall, and Weltmeyer.

The show jumping legend will begin his retirement as a breeder by dispersing select stock representing top jumping bloodlines.

Hippomundo examines which stallions as sire of the dam have had the most amount of offspring at the international level this past year.