Kent Farrington Strikes Again in $340,000 B&D Builders CSI5* Grand Prix
In the first grand prix of the 2025 Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) season, world no. 1 Kent Farrington (USA) returned to the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival, presented by B&D Builders, and did what he does best by capturing his fifth five-star grand prix victory in under one year with his special mare Greya. In the $340,000 B&D Builders CSI5* Grand Prix, they left nothing to chance in a 15-horse jump-off, and took home the title.
Farrington and Greya are comfortable in the Turtle Creek Casino & Hotel International Ring, where they have now won two five-star grand prix in under one year, capturing one of the final classes of the 2024 season in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Traverse City and now the first of the 2025 season.
“It just feels great to have a horse like this to ride at all,” Farrington said of the 11-year-old Oldenburg mare (Colestus x Contender). “No matter what venue I take her to, she can always deliver and she did that again today. I’m thrilled with the horse and I feel very privileged to have an athlete like this underneath me.”
Farrington had seen half the order take on Marina Azevedo’s (BRA) short course before stepping in, so he knew which areas could be problem spots, but the pair effortlessly sped around in 38.31 seconds. His confidence in Greya was high since the beginning of their partnership, but as the mare gains experience she just keeps getting better.
“She’s very fast; she’s almost more like a cat than a horse,” he continued. “She’s really quick across the ground, incredibly careful at the jumps—she’s just a different level horse which is an advantage in a jump-off like today.”
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