The Night Records Could Fall: What’s at Stake in Tryon

Tryon stages one of the most statistically significant MLSJ Grands Prix of the season, with major rider and horse records in reach across the field.
Published
18 OCT 2025
Est. reading time
3 min
Article from Equiratings.com, written by Charlotte Smet, published on October 18, 2025. Click here to read the original.
Some Grands Prix are just big; others arrive with history attached. Tryon is shaping up as the latter.
Between record-breaking win streaks, podium consistency at the highest level, and a remarkable clear-round profile emerging across the MLSJ calendar, tonight’s Grand Prix has more on the line than just leaderboard points. Several of the world’s most in-form combinations are approaching statistical territory rarely seen in modern five-star sport, and multiple all-time marks could move tonight.
THE RIDER RECORD: Farrington chases his own history
Kent Farrington enters Tryon with the chance to rewrite a record he already shares. The benchmark for most CSI5* Grand Prix / World Cup wins in a single calendar year currently stands at eight, set by Farrington himself in 2017 and matched again in 2025. A win tonight would move him to nine, establishing the outright all-time record.
The significance is twofold: not only would it separate his 2025 season as the strongest winning year in modern five-star show jumping, it would also underline the extraordinary longevity of his peak, eight years apart, but again at the ceiling of the sport. No other rider has touched this number once. Farrington has done it twice.
THE HORSE RECORD: Greya & a season for the history books
Where Farrington is chasing a rider record, Greya is positioned for the horse equivalent. The mare already sits at six Grand Prix / World Cup wins in 2025, equalling the all-time single-season record held by Gazelle in 2017, also piloted by Kent Farrington, and now herself.
A seventh victory would move her into unprecedented territory, no horse has ever delivered seven five-star wins inside a 12-month window. In statistical terms, she is now operating in “only one horse in history” space. If she converts tonight, the new record becomes not the benchmark, but her benchmark.
THE PODIUM RACE: James Kann Cruz & the numbers behind consistency
While the spotlight often falls on wins, podium frequency is one of the clearest predictors of long-run excellence. James Kann Cruz comes into Tryon chasing his eighth CSI5* 1.60m podium of the 2025 season, already at the sharp edge of the field.
He has finished on the podium in all four of his most recent five-star Grand Prix starts, including last weekend’s MLSJ Grand Prix of Hudson Valley. He currently sits in a three-way tie (7) with Monaco, Hello Chadora Lady, and Cayman Jolly Jumper. Another top-three tonight would move him clear of that group and continue one of the most reliable 1.60m formlines in the sport this year.
THE CLEAR-ROUND OUTLIER: Corbie V.V. & the perfect MLSJ profile
Daniel Bluman’s Corbie V.V. has quietly built one of the most compelling statistical profiles of the MLSJ circuit: four starts in the league’s 2025 Grands Prix, and four first-round clears.
Even without a podium tonight, the reliability story stands alone, a near-perfect strike rate of clears at height and pressure. Should that trend extend again in Tryon, Corbie V.V. becomes the season’s most bankable first-round jumper on paper.
WHAT TONIGHT COULD MEAN
With multiple all-time records in play, Tryon offers a kind of statistical convergence that sport rarely delivers, not one storyline, but several running in parallel. Whether history shifts tonight will come down to execution inside two minutes on course, but the thresholds are already defined. If the results fall the right way, Tryon will not just be another Grand Prix on the calendar, it will be one the record books return to.
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