Selection Criteria for mares
- Mares with a breeding value evaluated from the data of the mare performance test of at least 125 points and with a score of at least 8,0 for free jumping or
- mares, whose dams and sires take part in the programme for breeding Hanoverian show-jumpers and who received a score of at least 8.0 for freejumpung in the mare performance test or
- dams and full sisters of horses which are internationally successful and are ranked by the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) or
- mares with own show records and/or with show records of their offspring.
Selection Criteria for stallions
- The scores for jumping ability in the stallion performance test. The average score for jumping must be at least 8,5 points and/or his overall score for jumping at least 125 points. Additionally the stallion must have jumper sires in his pedigree.
- A qualification at horse shows with the following results: 5 placings in open jumper classes on first to third place or with five- and six-year-old stallions a qualifikation for the Bundeschampionat for show-jumpers.
- Stallions with successful offspring. This mainly applies to stallions who qualified already in the year before.
- A breeding value based on the data from mare performance tests is at least 120 points.
