Scott Brash

Britain’s leading showjumper Scott Brash MBE regained his position as the world’s number one showjumper in the official FEI rankings at the start of February 2026. This is the third time in his illustrious career that he has been on top of the FEI leaderboard and he is consistently ranked among the top 10 riders.

Scott Brash’s key achievements

Scott made history when becoming the first rider to win the Rolex Grand Slam of Showjumping in September 2015 with his top horse Hello Sanctos.

Scott is also an Olympic team gold medallist from the London 2012 Olympic Games (Hello Sanctos) and the Paris 2024 Olympics (Hello Jefferson), when his cool final round secured the gold medal.

He also jumped Hello Jefferson, who is owned by his long-time supporters Lady Harris and Lady Kirkham, on the British Olympic showjumping team at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Scott’s other notable successes during his glittering career to date include:

• Won team gold for Great Britain on his Olympic debut at the 2012 Games in London, where he also finished fifth individually

• Won team gold and individual bronze at the 2013 European Championships.

• Topped the 2013 and 2014 Longines Global Champions Tour series.

• Won the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping in 2015 after his consecutive grand prix victories in Geneva (2014), Aachen (2015) and Spruce Meadows (2015). No other rider has achieved this feat.

• Won team bronze at the 2019 European Championships where he helped Great Britain to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

• Only rider to have won the CP International at Spruce Meadows three times (2015, 2016 and 2025)

• Inducted into the British Horse Society Equestrian Hall of Fame in 2015

• Been ranked world number one three times

• Represented Britain at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

• Secured team gold for Great Britain at the 2024 Paris Olympics

• Won the 2025 Rolex IJRC top 10 final

• Won team bronze at the Aachen 2026 World Championships

What nationality is Scott Brash?

Born in Peebles, Scotland, in 1985, Scott and his elder sister Lea spent their childhood riding ponies and competing every weekend. He received training from Paul Barker and joined the Brendon Stud in West Sussex before catching the attention of his current backers Lord and Lady Harris and Lord and Lady Kirkham.

Among the early milestones of the Scottish rider’s career was competing in the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games and he has since gone on to represent Britain at championships, Nations Cups and has won many of the world’s most prestigious showjumping classes.

In 2014, Scott was named the third most eligible bachelor in Scotland by The Scotsman.

Where is Scott Brash based?

Scott is based at a state-of-the art yard in West Sussex. He also has an online showjumping training platform.

Why are Scott Brash’s horses called Hello?

Scott Brash’s long-time owners Lady Harris and Lady Kirkham like to give all their horses the “Hello” prefix so every horse that they buy is renamed as such.

Hello Sanctos, one of Scott’s all-time great partners, was originally named Sanctos Van Het Gravenhof. Sanctos and Ursula XII were widely considered to be two of Scott’s greatest horses and since retiring from the sport in 2019 have remained at Scott’s yard to enjoy their retirement.

Scott’s Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic horse Hello Jefferson (pictured below) is known at home as “Jezz”. Their partnership started in 2018.

“He’s very clever and has such a busy brain that he always wants to be doing something,” says Scott. “But he’s trained on really well and we’ve grown so much as a partnership – we understand each other now and I think he’s a very special horse.”

He has also achieved success with Hello Vincent, with whom he won the Olympia grand prix in 2019, and Hello Chadora Lady, who won the Rolex IJRC top 10 final in December 2025.

He rode Hello Mango to win team bronze at the 2026 World Championships in Aachen.

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