TRAVERSE CITY--Kent Farrigton on Greya won the $340,000, 5 star Grand Prix at the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival in the first grand prix of the 2025 Major League Show Jumping season.
Kent Farrington on Greya This was his fifth five-star grand prix victory in under one year, and he won in a 15 horse jump-off, going clean in 38.31.
“It just feels great to have a horse like this to ride at all,” Farrington. “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.”
“She’s very fast; she’s almost more like a cat than a horse,” he said. “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.”
Going early in the jump-off, Julien Anquetin of France held the lead on Blood Diamond du Pont until Farrington went, and he ended up second place, with Lillie Keenan placing third on Fasther.
MAJOR LEAGUE Show Jumping was started by parents who wanted to have their children ride and compete with top professionals - paying those pros to compete on a team that they owned.
It's impossible to follow which team is leading as those on the teams keep changing, but now some of the top grand prix with a lot of money do draw top riders.
Anquetin’s second put his team, the DIHP Roadrunners, into the lead after the first week of MLSJ action for 2025.
Sitting just behind in second is Helios, with the Trailblazers sitting in third, all just one point ahead of the next.
Lillie Keenan & Fasther. Photo © Megan Giese Media / TCHS
Farrington has been an MLSJ team owner for three seasons and continues to be a staple along the tour, which allows him to jump at world-class five-star events while staying closer to home.
“I think it’s helping American sport,” he said of MLSJ. “It’s improving every single year. I’m impressed to see higher-level riders coming over from Europe which elevates the level of sport we have here, which in turn then raises everybody’s level of riding. I think that’s really what we need here in America.”
