June 30, 2025 
No doubt the Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey said it best in their smash 1998 hit, which claims: “It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.”
Whether he was ever a fan of the song or not, there’s a good chance Scott Brash is hoping the Welsh chanteuse knew what she was talking about.
This week, one of the most hotly anticipated events on the show jumping calendar, the Rolex Grand Prix of CHIO Aachen, returns on Sunday, July 6. And, if one of the names on the startlist happens to belong to Brash, the significance isn’t likely to be lost on him.
After all, it’s been 10 years since the rider for Great Britain took home this same class and the second of his three, consecutive Major wins earning him the title of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping—the first and only time in history it’s been accomplished.
Brash was second in the Rolex Grand Prix of Aachen with Hello Jefferson two years ago, and whether another win or Grand Slam run is in his purview this year (or not), one thing is clear from the numbers: 2025 is already turning out to be a very big season for the 39-year-old Scottish rider.
Brash kicked off his year with a 1.60m, 5* win in Doha aboard Hello Folie, his first victory in a class of that magnitude since the FEI World Cup qualifier in London in 2022. In May, he and the much-buzzed-about Hello Chadora Lady won the LGCT Grand Prix in Shanghai, following it up with another triumph in June with Hello Jefferson in the CSIO5* Longines Grand Prix of Switzerland at St. Gallen.
Brash hasn’t slowed down. Just a few of weeks ago, he and Hello Chadora Lady—owned, along with the rest of Brash’s ‘Hello’-prefix horses, by Lady Pauline Harris and Lady Pauline Kirkham—took the LGCT Grand Prix of Ramatuelle, St. Tropez. That victory earned Brash and the 12-year-old OS mare their second golden ticket of the season toward the Longines Super Grand Prix in Riyadh this fall.
If you’ve been counting along at home, that brings Brash’s total to 4, 1.60m, 5* Grand Prix victories this year, a number the ties him for first place in the rankings with none other than the reigning World no. 1, Kent Farrington, according to Jumpr.
Brash narrowly leads the American rider, however, in earnings this year, topping the chart at €1,118,661 compared to Farrington’s €1,017,750. What’s more, if his luck holds, he’s poised to make more money in 2025 than his own last three years combined: Mid-way through the season, Brash is less than $274,000 away.
But that’s not the only reason that Farrington might want to keep an eye on his six.
If his past performances are any indication, good things happen for Scott Brash after he gets the monkey of a gold-medal-winning-Olympic-performance off his proverbial back. Take his first team gold in London back in 2012 with the legendary Hello Sanctos.
That particular milestone kicked off a series of wins and podium finishes that would lead to Brash taking over the World no. 1 spot, himself, the following December—a position he held for well over a year. Twelve months after that, he would win the first of three, consecutive victories comprising the Rolex Grand Slam at CHI Geneva in 2014.
In other words, if his dramatic climb of more than 40 places up the Longines Rankings to #20 in the world in less than 12 months is any indication, the history repeating for Scott Brash in the next few months could be very big, indeed.
