Marriet Smit- Hoekstra prize money

A show jumping career does not climb the way a contract does. It moves with whichever horse is sound and in form, so a season with a top horse out of work looks like a collapse and is not one. For Chacco Tn alone accounts for 43.8% of everything Marriet Smit- Hoekstra has won.

Every figure is converted to sterling so the rounds can be added up: show jumping pays in the currency of wherever it is run, which is euros at most of the calendar, sterling at the British shows and Swiss francs at Geneva. Marriet Smit- Hoekstra has won 20 of these outright.

This is the legal destination of the money rather than a sponsor list. Where the owner is a syndicate or a stable the cheque goes to the company; where the rider's own name appears, they owned the horse and kept the lot.

Where to next

The riders around Marriet Smit- Hoekstra, and the rest of the sport