The Open Weekly: Bicton, Aachen & The Ginny Rattner Memorial

Eventing Knowles & Greengard Head to Europe

The US Equestrian Open eventing Series is on a short mid-season break, with the next qualifier at Aspen Farm in June. In the meantime, US Eventing has named its squad for the Bicton Nations Cupn this weekend:

• Tommy Greengard & That's Me Z
• Quidley Kellermann & Blakeneys Cruise
• Allie Knowles & Montpellier Scais 
• Cassie Sanger & Fernhill Zoro.

Greengard and Knowles both arrive in the UK as current top-10 riders in the US Equestrian Open standings. Knowles is eighth in the standings on 80 points and has built that total across a busy spring campaign. Montpellier Scais delivered her standout result for the 2026 Series so far with a runner-up finish at Stable View in April.

Meanwhile, Greengard sits ninth on the leaderboard with 75 points, all earned from a single qualifier. At Galway Downs in April,. Balladeer Kilbrickens Lad took the win on his four-star debut, adding only 9.2 cross-country time penalties to a 34.0 dressage score. That's Me Z finished second after activating a pin on cross-country day.

With their trip to the UK, both riders will miss several domestic qualifiers at a key stage of the Series. For Greengard in particular, that could prove significant on the West Coast swing later in the season. He won Aspen Farms last year with Joshuay MBF so his absence there opens the door for others to accumulate points meaning a climb up the leaderboard looks less likely than it did when the season started. That said, Bicton marks an exciting Nations Cup debut for the 26-year-old.

Current Leaderboard of the US Equestrian Open of Eventing

#	Rider	Points
1	Tamra Smith	235
2	William Coleman	215
3	Boyd Martin	190
4	Caroline Pamukcu	185
5	Lucienne Bellissimo	175
6	Waylon Roberts	110
7	Mia Farley	85
8	Alexandra Knowles	80
9	Tommy Greengard	75
10	Bruce O. Davidson Jr.	70

Jumping Vogel Wins the Rolex Grand Prix of Aachen

TSCHIO Aachen at the weekend saw the toughest Grand Prix field ever assembled at the venue. Two CSI5* qualifier classes across Friday and Saturday served as the warm-up for Sunday's headline event.

Lillie Keenan & Kick On took the Saturday qualifier, posting the fastest clear in the jump-off at 38.21 seconds. A strong result ahead of the World Championships which will be held at the same venue later this year.

The Rolex Grand Prix, part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping, came down to a three-way jump-off. Richard Vogel & United Touch S (GER) won it in 45.57 seconds to take a second consecutive Grand Slam victory. José María (Jr) Larocca & Finn Lente (ARG) finished second in  with Sophie Hinners & Iron Dames Singclair (GER) third.

Kent Farrington & Greya (the 2026 Rolex US Equestrian Open Champions) were the best of the US riders in the Grand Prix, finishing eighth with four faults in the second round after a clear first. Laura Kraut & Bisquetta finished tenth, Keenan & Fasther eleventh. All three were clear in round one and added four in round two.

Dressage The Ginny Rattner Memorial

In 1998, Justin and Ginny Rattner carved 40 acres of Oregon's Willamette Valley into the Pacific Northwest's first purpose-built equestrian venue. 'Safety, footing, stabling, education' was the brief, and it was Ginny's.

"She really wanted to bring a facility to life in the Northwest that was a safe venue for people to come and compete at," her son Noah recalls. "And beyond safe, she wanted it to be a place for people to come and learn."

She ran DevonWood with that ethos at its centre for fifteen years, right up to the week before her death from breast cancer in July 2013. Following her passing, Noah, alongside his siblings Evin and Jessica, immediately stepped in to continue her work. In 2023, ten years on, the family staged the inaugural Ginny Rattner Memorial CDI3*. It became the only international dressage competition in the Pacific Northwest, and the realisation of Ginny's long-held ambition to bring an FEI CDI to the region.

In 2025, the Memorial joined the inaugural US Equestrian Open of Dressage qualifier circuit. This weekend it returns for a second year, with 15 Series points available to the winner and Final qualification genuinely at stake for two of the four entered combinations.

Cyndi Jackson & Florisson arrive at their fourth qualifier of the season, currently 18th on the leaderboard. A win this weekend lifts her to 44 points and into sixth, almost certainly confirming her place at the Final. Kristina Harrison-Antell & Finley sit on 14 points from two scores. A win would move her inside the top 18 (the qualifying threshold) for the first time.

Current Leaderboard of the US Equestrian Open of Dressage

#	Rider	Points
1	Ashley Holzer	51
2	Frederic Wandres	49
3	Claire Darnell	47
4	Devon Kane	46
5	Geñay Vaughn	45
⋯ positions 6–17 ⋯
18	Cyndi Jackson Win → 44 pts, 6th.	29
34	Kristina Harrison-Antell Win → 29 pts, inside top 18.	14