Eight months into 2025, there have been no shortage of sporting highs in show jumping.
Richie Vogel and United Touch took their first individual title at a European championship. Martin Fuchs and Leone Jei are back in the Rolex Live Contender driver’s seat. Kent Farrington is averaging over a GP win a month.
But there’s one horse that’s raking in more green than any the other this year.
He hasn’t won the most Grand Prix titles in 2025. (That honor goes to Donatello D’Auge with 5). Nor jumped to the most five-star podium finishes (That’s For Gold, 9). But he is trending on the one metric that arguably counts the most (at least for the people paying the bills): Prize money won.
Cayman Jolly Jumper is the only horse to have earned over the million dollar mark to date in 2025.
With $1,330,539 in earnings this year (Jumpr stats), the 13-year-old Selle Français has lined Simon Delestre’s pockets with nearly twice as much prize money as his nearest competitor, Scott Brash piloted Hello Chadora Lady, at $783,098.
Bringing in the bulk of that payday are their the Rolex Grand Prix at ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Grand Prix Hermes in Paris in March. In July, they also captured the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix in Monaco. All five-star Grands Prix. All set at the 1.60m height.
More impressive still, Delestre and Cayman Jolly Jumper have only made 15 international starts this year and have only once competed in two FEI events in the same month (March), which was followed immediately by two months out of the show ring.
But when they do show up, they show up to win. Of those 15 starts, 11 are at the 1.60m height where they jump clear at a 64% clip and into the top 10 73% of the time (Jumpr stats).
It’s a winning combination. And a lucrative one, too.