Saturday Schedule for MLSJ in Thermal, California
$340,000 Grand Prix is the Day's Topper
14 December 2025 at 4:33 amBy a.dunne
The first class of the afternoon is the $62,500 1.45m FEI 2* Grand Prix by Cabana Coast. The winner of this class last week (Karl Cook) is competing at CHI Geneva. However, Israel's Daniel Bluman and Rebelline de Kwakenbeek are among the 50 entries and finished second last week.
The second Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) class today is the $62,500 1.50 Winning Round by BrainJava. Mexico's Arturo Parada Vallejo and Bordeaux are in the lineup of 38 competitors and finished second last week. Last week's winner (Gregory Wathelet) and third and fourth-place finishers (Cian O'Connor and Lillie Keenan) are competing this week in Geneva.
ClipMyHorse is broadcasting MLSJ in Thermal HERE.
Eyes Will Be on the Grand Prix
The culmination of Saturday's MLSJ in the desert will be the $340,000 1.60m FEI 5* Grand Prix by GoRentals. Last week's exciting jump-off left Laura Kraut and Bisquetta with the win, just 0.03 seconds faster than fellow American McLain Ward with High Star Hero.
Kraut is entered in today's Grand Prix, but with Una Mariposa JPS, a 9-year-old Westphalian mare. The pair won yesterday's $62,500 1.50m FEI5* Individual Speed class and were the only clear round in the field of 10.
Ward, last week's runner-up, returns with the 12-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding High Star Hero as one of 34 entries.
Skylar Wireman of the U.S. finished third last week with Barclino B, and is in tonight's lineup, but with a different partner. This evening she enters the ring aboard Tornado, an 11-year-old Swedish Warmblood gelding.
Coming in fourth last week, Israel's Daniel Bluman will be back with Corbie V.V., and last week's fifth-place finisher - Nina Mallevaey with Dynastie de Beaufour is also returning.
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