June 27, 2025 
If fantasy football were played the same way in the sport of show jumping, it would all come down to how much horse power you could draft for your team.
It goes without saying you’d want a proven entity in the big leagues; a horse capable of clearing the technically demanding, 1.60m and higher courses that today’s sport demands.
But you’d also need something sharp and sensitive; respectful not only of the wide, brick-house-type course materials on the sprawling Grand Prix field at places such as Spruce Meadows, but also the delicate poles and planks of a purpose-built ring such as LGCT Ramatuelle, St.-Tropez, or the one-of-kind indoor setting at Saut Hermès.
Week in, week out, though, there’s yet another ingredient separating the “good” from the “great” in our (fantasy) fantasy show jumping league. That secret sauce is speed across the ground, and there are three, deer-like mares—possibly four—jumping out there right now that are currently doing it better than anyone else.
Ready to draft our squad? Here’s our case for three+, fleet-footed mares currently pushing the sport of show jumping to new heights—and speeds.
#1. Caracole De La Roque
The definite OG of the fleet-footed-mares club, Caracole De La Roque returned to her home country of France in 2024 just in time to help Team USA deliver a silver medal at the Paris Olympic Games, bien sûre. As the most ‘senior’ of the mares to follow, the 13-year-old Selle Français, who was produced by Julien Epaillard (FRA), hasn’t slowed down—delivering her first, 5* Grand Prix of the season this spring at Rotterdam.
In her career to date, according to Jumpr, Caracole has earned more than €1,467,000 in total prize money and taken home seven, 1.60m+ 5* Grand Prix wins—putting her among the ranks of such greats as Martin Fuchs’s (SUI) Clooney 51. But the real reason you’d want Carcaole as your MVP? Her standout 80% top 10 finish rate in five rounds this year at 1.60m+.
#2. Greya
Is Greya as good as Kent Farrington’s (USA) other, now retired superstar mare—the winningest 5* Grand Prix horse in decade—Gazelle? That’s a question we’ve asked before, and we’re still, eagerly awaiting the answer. To make her case, the Greya would need at least one 5* win in the next few months, and she may get her chance at CHIO Aachen next week.
But the OS mare is undoubtedly a torchbearer in her own right, having already earned more than €1,325,000 in prize money at just 11 years of age, with six 5* Grands Prix—including the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ at Traverse City in 2024 (pictured)—on her resume. And, with three of those victories occurring this year, alone, Greya is the winningest horse at the 1.60m height so far in 2025.
Her stats paint the full picture. In six rounds at 1.60m+ in 2025, she and Farrington jump clear at 67%, finishing in the top 10 at that same, stellar clip.
#3. Hello Chadora Lady
There’s a brand-new super-mare blazing around the Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) this season, and if fans hadn’t taken note of Scott Brash’s (GBR) Hello Chadora Lady before, they will now. Previously seen under Natalie Dean (USA) and Angelica Augustsson Zanotelli (SWE), Chadora Lady won two CSI5* LGCT Grands Prix already this year in Shanghai and Ramatuelle, St. Tropez.
The 12-year-old OS mare is so talented, in fact, that Brash is already calling her “one of the best [he’s] had.” What’s more: In eight, 1.60m rounds with the Scottish rider this season, Hello Chadora Lady jumps clear and finishes in the top 10 75% of the time she set foot in the ring (Jumpr).
Honorable Mention: Foxy De La Roque
For one of the winningest horses in the top sport in 2024, there’s been a shocking lack of results—zero, in fact—for the French-bred Foxy De La Roque this season. The mare last appeared in international competition under her longtime rider, Victor Bettendorf (LUX) last fall, closing out her 9-year-old year with a defining win in the LGCT Super Grand Prix in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
And what a year it was. To date, the now 10-year-old Selle Français—who was sold to Karl Cook in November—hasn’t been bested as one of the winningest 9-year-olds in the last decade, winning three 5* Grands Prix and one 4* in her first year at the sport’s highest level. And while we can’t in good faith include her in a fantasy league for a competition season she’s not actually jumping, no fleet-footed mares list would be complete without at least a nod to Foxy’s prodigious talent.
The good news? Last month, Cook finally granted us a preview of his first show with Foxy, who he says he’s been “slowly and methodically” doing work with at home. No doubt Foxy will be giving the rest of the mares in the “league” a run for their money in no time at all—and we can’t wait to watch it happen.
