Greya the Great: Five Wins and Chasing History
The mare of the moment, Greya’s fifth five-star victory of 2025 puts her among the sport’s all-time greats, with history still within reach.
A Season Like No Other
Greya’s rise to the top of the sport reached new heights in Traverse City, where she and Kent Farrington captured the North American leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™. The win marked her fifth five-star Grand Prix/World Cup triumph of the season, a feat that only a handful of horses have ever achieved.
Following in Famous Footsteps
Since 2010, just two horses have managed to win five or more five-star Grand Prix classes in a single year: Hello Sanctos (Scott Brash, 2014) and Gazelle (Kent Farrington, 2017). Both are legends of modern show jumping. Sanctos for aiding Scott Brash to become the first-ever winner of the Rolex Grand Slam, and Gazelle for her six-win record-setting season.
Now, remarkably, Farrington finds himself guiding another mare to the same level of greatness. With Greya, he has not only equalled his own history-making success, but set the stage for an extraordinary repeat of one of the sport’s rarest achievements.
The Numbers Behind the Wins
Greya’s five-star victories this year have come across three major American venues: Wellington, Lexington, and Traverse City. Winning twice in Wellington, once in Lexington, and twice again in Traverse City, she has shown she can dominate on different stages and under different pressures. Her 2025 campaign is a showcase of adaptability and consistency at the very highest level of the sport.
Chasing Gazelle’s Record
The parallels with Gazelle’s 2017 season are impossible to ignore. Then, Farrington and Gazelle achieved an unprecedented six Grand Prix wins in a single year, a record that still stands. With more than three months of the 2025 season remaining, Greya now has the chance to match or even surpass that milestone, making Farrington the only rider to guide two different horses into this rare territory.
A Legacy in the Making
For Greya, 2025 already marks a career-defining season. But with the chance to chase down Gazelle’s record, her story is still being written. What is certain is that she has joined an elite group of horses and that Kent Farrington’s name, already etched in history, may soon be attached to not one but two of the greatest five-star campaigns the sport has ever seen.
