May 4, 2025 
Scott Brash knew he had a star in Hello Chadora Lady, it was just a matter of proving to the world what he saw.
That evidence materialized in the Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) Grand Prix of Shanghai, besting a 16-horse jump-off with the 12-year-old mare (Chacco-Blue x Nintender).
Brash has been chasing his first victory aboard his newest partner, coming up short recently with second placings in Hong Kong and at the Dutch Masters. They’d proven to be fierce competitors, but Brash knew a win was bubbling at the surface.
Last to go over the short course in Shanghai, he had a tall order after watching Gilles Thomas, last year’s winner, put in a quick round aboard Luna van het Dennehof. With agility and footspeed, the pair managed to shave off two-tenths of a second off the time, taking the win. Thomas took second, and Eduardo Alvarez Aznar was third with Legend.
“I managed to watch Gilles’ round because I knew he was one of the favorites in the jump-off,” Brash said post win. “I knew he’d done a fantastic round, and I knew I was probably going to do one more stride than him to the last jump, maybe one more stride somewhere else. But I’m very confident how fast my mare is, so I knew if I could keep the rest smooth it would be close.”
It’s a victory all-but destined for Brash and Hello Chadora Lady after less than a year together. Her stats are impressive, but her jumping form and natural quickness even more so. The Gestut Lewitz-bred mare has jumped five clears out of seven attempts at 1.60m for a 71% clear round rate, scoring a top-10 finish on all those occasions (Jumpr stats).
Brash, the only winner of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping, has had some serious horsepower in the past, and thinks the little mare will be right up there with his past champions.
“She gives her heart for you,” Brash said of the mare, previously piloted by the USA’s Natalie Dean and Brazil’s Marlon Modolo Zanotelli. “She’s such a beautiful mare to work with. Even outside the ring she’s such a lovely character and one of the nicest mares I’ve ever worked with, really. She wants to win as much as me.”
As for that winning feeling, Brash intends to keep chasing it.
“It’s like a drug,” he elaborated. “You want to keep winning. And I love the feeling of bringing a top horse to show the world how good they are. Horses are amazing animals and what they do for us, it’s just great to get the results they deserve.”
Three legs into the 2025 season, the twice LGCT Champion earned enough points in Shanghai to take over third in the overall LGCT rankings, behind Edwina Tops-Alexander and Gilles Thomas. Brash also punched his golden ticket to the LGCT Super Grand Prix in Prague in November.
