The Open Weekly: Luke 140 Is Back With a Win, Keenan Takes Second at Spruce, and the Number to Beat

Eventing Luke 140 Wins for the First Time in Five Years

Boyd Martin & Luke 140 won the CCI4*-S at The Fork at Tryon. Martin led the dressage on 26.7 and jumped clear inside the time in the show jumping. The cross country did the rest of the work. Nobody caught the 6:30 optimum, and Martin came home 34 seconds over for 13.6 time penalties. It was just enough to stay ahead of Caroline Pamukcu (HSH Double Sixteen) and Waylon Roberts (Chevalier).

HSH Double Sixteen stopped the clock in 6:43. That was five seconds faster than anything else in the field and worth 5.2 time penalties, the lowest of the day by some distance. Caroline Pamukcu started the cross country 8.5 penalties off the lead but ended up finishing just 0.1 behind Martin. HSH Double Sixteen once again proved himself as the speed horse of the Series.

The Fork was the sixteenth of twenty qualifiers, and a field of 16 put it on the 40 point scale. Only the best six results count, and both Martin and Pamukcu already had six, so their weekend replaced rather than added. Each moved 20 points. Waylon Roberts took 50 from his two rides, third with Chevalier and fifth with Fernhill Salt Lake.

Current Leaderboard of the US Equestrian Open of Eventing

#	Rider	Pts	Fork
1	Tamie Smith	235
2	Will Coleman	215
3	Boyd Martin	210	+20
4	Caroline Pamukcu	205	+20
5	Lucienne Bellissimo	175
6	Waylon Roberts	160	+50
7	Karen O’Neal	100

Only the best six results count. Martin and Pamukcu already had six, so The Fork replaced earlier scores rather than adding to them.

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Martin and Pamukcu are keeping Tamie Smith on her toes. She did not run at The Fork but she has three of the six entries in the CCI4*-S at Twin Rivers this coming weekend. Two of them have already won a qualifier this season: Danito & Jump To Day D. Tamie Smith also brings a nine-year-old called Spiro P.  He is a winner in his own right this year, having taken the CCI3*-S at Carolina in March. Smith already has six counting results, so she needs to finish fourth or better to add anything at all.

Twin Rivers and Plantation Field run the same weekend, a coast to coast double header. Neither Will Coleman nor Martin is entered in Pennsylvania so far. Pamukcu brings HSH Tolan King, and she sits five points off the Series podium.

Jumping Keenan Takes Silver at Spruce Meadows, Team KPF Take Gold

A busy weekend of jumping with US riders on the podium on both sides of the border. Week two of MLSJ at Traverse City ran alongside the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ in Calgary, and Kent Farrington, Lillie Keenan, Karl Cook and Charlotte Jacobs all came away with something.

Team KPF (Karl Cook, Kent Farrington, Cassio Rivetti) won their first of the 2026 season after carrying a rail into round two and winning it on the clock. The Trelawny Trailblazers took silver with Maccabi United in third. KPF now sit at the top of the MLSJ standings.

Nina Mallevaey & My Clementine won in 40.56 seconds. It was only the eleven-year-old’s second five-star Grand Prix. Kent Farrington & Greya went last and stopped the clock at 40.66, 0.10 seconds slower. Shane Sweetnam & James Kann Cruz were third in 40.97, which put the whole podium inside 0.41 seconds.

Twenty-nine started and three of the top five were American. Natalie Dean & Mr Boombastic took fourth and Hunter Holloway & Henry Jota Ariel were fifth.

Leopoldo Palacios built a serious 1.60m track. Nine nations started and the field was cut to six for round two. Sweden missed it on 24 faults, the Netherlands and Canada did not complete the first round, and France went out in the second. Across the whole class one pair jumped double clear: Sophie Hinners & Iron Dames My Prins.

Germany brought three riders from the team that won the World Championship in Aachen in August and finished on four faults, with Daniel Deusser, Hinners and Jörne Sprehe all clear in round two. Ireland were second on 17 and Belgium third on 21. It was not the United States’ week. They went into round two on 16 and came out of it on 46, fifth of the six. Spencer Smith & Keeneland were the most consistent of Robert Ridland’s four, on four faults in each round.

Everybody came to watch Richard Vogel. He arrived in Calgary one win from the Rolex Grand Slam, a third consecutive Major and a one million euro bonus on top of the prize money. Only Scott Brash has ever done it, in 2015, and he did it in this ring. Thirty-nine started, twelve came back for round two, and six were still level on four faults when it went to a jump-off. Vogel and United Touch S were among them. A rail at the double ended the run and left him fifth in 41.92.

The horse that beat him was not the one anyone had really pencilled in. Ben Maher went second into the jump-off with Enjeu de Grisien and set 41.40, twenty-four hours after falling from Catelly in the Nations’ Cup. Four pairs followed him. Nobody caught him.

Lillie Keenan & Fasther were last to go. They jumped clear in 41.85, 0.45 seconds off the winning time, for second. Steve Guerdat & Albführen’s Iashin Sitte took third. Maher now carries the Grand Slam to CHI Geneva.

Dressage The Number to Beat Is 79.930

Benjamin Ebeling & Bellena won the first US Equestrian Open Dressage Final last November on 79.930%. Two combinations in the current Series top 20 have already beaten that in a qualifier this season. Susan Pape & Harmony’s Giulilanta scored 81.745 at Adequan Global Dressage Festival 3 in January. Christian Simonson & Indian Rock scored 81.445 in the World Cup freestyle at AGDF I.

Neither is near the top of the standings. Pape is 16th on 32 points, Simonson 10th on 40. Ashley Holzer & Hawtins San Floriana lead on 51 from five qualifier runs. Points follow volume as much as level, and thirteen of the top 20 still have counting slots to fill.

Four of the current top 20 in the Series have already cleared the 77.830 that earned a podium place in November. We put every contender against last year’s benchmarks. Dressage at Devon is the next qualifier, with only Terranova to follow it.