Manstein was an elite stallion with Danish Warmblood Society, a premium stallion with the Oldenburger Society in Germany and graded with the Hanoverian Society.

After evaluation of his off-spring he has been finally graded as siegerhingst, the highest possible accolade.

Manstein completed his performance test Adelheidsdorff in 1982 as no. 15 out of 53 stallions with 114 points.

Manstein was graded by the Danish Warmblood Society in 1990 with the following description: Big impressive stallion of exceptionally good type. Expressive head. Well-set neck. Very good shoulders, withers and top-line. Well-formed muscular cluarters. Limbs straight and correct. Movement exceptionally good. Score 9-9-8 7-7 8-8 9.

Results for Manstein's offspring

The results are from Germany where the book "Jahrbuch Zucht" surmise the results for all stallions. Out of 159 stallions in his age-group Manstein is placed over-all as no.23. Looking at individual disciplines Manstein is placed as no. 6 for showing classes, as no. 5 for dressage, as no. 74 for show-jumping and as no. 29 for eventing.

The data in Jahrbuch Zucht is used to evaluate stallions by calculation of indexes. In this Manstein is in group II, stallions with progeny aged between 7 and 14 years. Manstein's oldest progeny are 10 years old.

Amongst 542 stallions Manstein has achieved an index of 156 ranking him 9th of all stallions for dressage. For show-jumping he is awarded an index of 93 ranking him as 430th out of 719 stallions. 473 stallions have produced progeny in both disciplines and over-all Manstein has an index of 125 ranking him 32nd.