The Open Weekly: Pamukcu Secures Second and Kohmann Takes the Dressage Lead
A weekly update across eventing, jumping, and dressage, covering results, leaderboard shifts, and the next Open qualifiers.
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Eventing
Davis Wins Stable View, Pamukcu Takes Second in the Series
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Mary Bess Davis & Imperio Magic won the Stable View Oktoberfest CCI4*-S on 39.9, the only pair in a field of 21 to finish on their dressage score. It is Davis's first international win, nearly 24 years after her debut.
The Series result sat half a penalty behind. Caroline Pamukcu & HSH Limited Edition finished second on 40.4. The 35 points replaced one of her 25s, a net gain of 10, and took her from 210 to 220, past Will Coleman on 215.
That settles the podium. Tamie Smith wins the Series on 265 and collects $25,000. Pamukcu takes $15,000, Coleman $10,000. Boyd Martin finishes fourth on 210, five points short.
Pamukcu is the only rider on the podium in both seasons. She was third in 2025 on 215, behind Martin and Phillip Dutton. This time she finishes a place higher and five points better.
Woodside Fall International closes the qualifying period on October 2, the twentieth and last qualifier of the season. Smith is the only one of the top five entered. She can add to her 265, but the order stays the same. Nobody heading to California can reach the top three.
The $200,000 Final follows at Morven Park, a CCI4*-L on October 8 to 11.
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Jumping
Bluman Wins Greenwich, Americans Fill Second Through Fourth
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Daniel Bluman & Corbie V.V. won the $340,000 MLSJ Greenwich CSI5* Grand Prix on Saturday with the only double clear of the day. A year ago they lost this class to Kent Farrington by 0.03 seconds. This time Farrington was the one chasing.
Three US riders finished behind them. Farrington & Descartes SR were two seconds quicker than anyone in the jump-off, 41.31, but a rail left them second on four faults. McLain Ward & Lestro vd Valckenborg took third on four in 43.31. Bliss Heers & Christian’s Cash were fourth, also on four.
A Nor’easter pulled the class forward a day. Of 33 on the start list, six pairs reached the jump-off.
Descartes SR came in as the form pick. The nine-year-old won the Kentucky MLSJ Grand Prix in April and started Saturday on a 9% win chance, one of five 2026 Grand Prix winners in the field. Greenwich was his fifth podium at the level with Farrington.
Corbie was joint favourite on 13%, but her 2026 had been quiet: one clear from eight rounds at five-star level. It is her second win at the level, from 29 classifications.
Ward’s horse was the outsider. Lestro vd Valckenborg started on a 3% win chance, with one clear from one jump-off at the level. He had a fence against the clock this time and still made the podium.
Farrington stays top of the MLSJ individual rankings. Daniel Bluman moves up to second, ahead of Shane Sweetnam, with Nina Mallevaey and Mark Bluman completing the top five.
Ward’s third lifted the Roadrunners to second in the team standings on 144, seven points behind Team KPF on 151. Maccabi United are third on 108.
Seven points between the top two teams.
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Dressage
Kohmann and Sonata MF Win Devon and Take the Series Lead
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In an unlikely turn of events, Kevin Kohmann and Sonata MF won Saturday's freestyle at Dressage at Devon on a 77.105% in a brilliant first international freestyle together.
Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu and Jaccardo, her 12-year-old Dutch gelding, took second on 76.515%, same placing as the Grand Prix. Camille Carier Bergeron came in third with 76.505% on Finnlanderin, the 16-year-old Oldenburg mare who'd won her the Grand Prix the day before.
Devon was impactful, producing five new personal bests and rendering last week's leaderboard utterly unrecognizable.
The leaderboard just did exactly what we thought it might, though one of the more unlikely scenarios did play out. Kohmann's win vaulted him from 9th to 1st, a 25 point jump from 40 points to 65 thanks to Devon's large class. This was the exact upset scenario we predicted as unlikely just five days ago.
As predicted, Fraser-Beaulieu climbed too. Her runner-up finish took her 14th to 2nd, 35 to 55. Since Ashley Holzer didn't compete, she's been knocked to 3rd on 51 points.
Ali Potasky and Meagan Davis both punched a last-minute ticket to the Final with their Devon outing, jumping from 23 to 14 and 24 to 16 places respectively. But the cutoff for invitation moved too. It sat at 29 points before Devon, tied between Susan Dutta and Kristina Harrison-Antell. It's 32 now. Neither Dutta nor Harrison-Antell competed this weekend, so got passed. So did Nadine Schwartsman, sitting on 31 points since before Devon and now on the wrong side of the line.
Micaela Mabragaña missed by one. Although she finished last in the class, that still awarded her 8 leaderboard points. With only two starts on the books before this weekend, it pushed her from 23 to 31 leaderboard points, on Belatrix Rh. Just 1 shy of the now 32-point cutoff. Camille Carier Bergeron made the biggest jump of the weekend. 37th to a tie for 19th, alongside Schwartsman and Mabragaña, on the back of a Grand Prix win and a freestyle podium. She's Final-eligible now, as Devon was her second qualifying start. She's also sitting on that same 31, one point outside. If a rider above her declines an invitation, she's got an in.
Sonata MF's freestyle was Made in America, start to finish. The mare is American-bred. Her music, picked by Kohmann's wife Devon Kane and her mother-in-law, was built to celebrate exactly that.
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