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Sharon White and Jaguars Duende trotting in a dressage arena

Back in the Start Box: The 2027 US Equestrian Open of Eventing Begins at Bouckaerts

<p dir="ltr"><strong>Christian Simonson</strong> earned all 40 of his series points on <strong>Indian Rock</strong>. At TerraNova on Saturday, the final qualifier of the 2026 US Equestrian Open of Dressage, he&rsquo;ll ride <strong>Fleau de Baian</strong> instead.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Kevin Kohmann</strong> already has the series title, so the fight this weekend is for the prize money behind him. Only five combinations are entered, and the matchup at the top is a good one.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Devon Kane</strong> and Simonson haven&rsquo;t met in a series class this season, but they shared this ring a year ago: Simonson won TerraNova&rsquo;s October freestyle on Indian Rock with 81.405, while Kane finished 5th on <strong>Vamos</strong> with 73.790. A lot has changed since. Kane&rsquo;s score has gone up every time she&rsquo;s ridden here, ending with a win on 75.465 in April. Simonson now returns to TerraNova on Fleau de Baian (barn name &ldquo;Felix&rdquo;), whose best freestyle is 76.570.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kane needs a win to protect her spot in the standings. Simonson moves up just by finishing, and a win would take him from 11th to 2nd.</p>
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<h2 dir="ltr">Kane Has to Ride Like Her Season Depends on It</h2>
<p dir="ltr">TerraNova has been good to Kane and Vamos. Their freestyle score has gone up on every visit: 72.705% in May 2025, then 73.790% at this show last October, then 75.465% in April. That last score is her personal best and her only FEI freestyle win.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Her best results have also been her most nail-biting. She won in April by 0.080 points over <strong>Camille Carier Bergeron</strong>, which ties for the smallest winning margin of the series. At AGDF 5 she landed on the wrong side of a close one, losing to <strong>Pablo Gomez Molina</strong> by 0.255. Her two best series results were decided by a combined 0.335 points, and this weekend could be just as tight.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regardless of what Simonson does, a win moves Kane from 5th to 3rd, or put monetarily, from $4,000 to $6,500. But second gets her nothing. That would put her on 49 points, tied with <strong>Frederic Wandres</strong>, and she&rsquo;d need more than 81.580% to win the tiebreak (unlikely). If she doesn&rsquo;t win and Simonson finishes ahead of her in the top three, she drops to 6th and $3,000.</p>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 12px 16px; background: #001c54; color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.12em; text-transform: uppercase; border-top: 4px solid #83b1d6;" scope="col">Prize Money</th>
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<td style="text-align: right; padding: 12px 16px; background: #ffffff; color: #1a4797; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1px solid #dde1ea; white-space: nowrap;">$5,000</td>
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<td style="text-align: right; padding: 12px 16px; background: #ffffff; color: #1a4797; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1px solid #dde1ea; white-space: nowrap;">$3,000</td>
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<td style="text-align: right; padding: 12px 16px; background: #ffffff; color: #1a4797; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1px solid #dde1ea; white-space: nowrap;">$1,000</td>
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<p dir="ltr">Kane&rsquo;s 75.465% PB is exactly the median winning score across the 23 qualifiers. Both of Simonson&rsquo;s best freestyles on Fleau de Baian beat it, so she likely needs a new personal best this weekend. Her TerraNova trend says that&rsquo;s within reach. If her average improvement here holds, she scores 76.850%, which beats Fleau de Baian&rsquo;s best. But Fleau de Baian is improving too, and when you project both pairs forward, they land within a point of each other. Kane&rsquo;s TerraNova trend needs to hold one more time.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">Simonson Can&rsquo;t Really Lose</h2>
<p dir="ltr">Simonson won both of his 2026 series starts on Indian Rock, scoring 78.840% and 81.445%. The 81.445 is the third-highest score of the series. Those two wins are how he reached 40 points in only two starts and secured a beastly 80.143% freestyle average (handy in the event of a tie). So the scoring pressure is largely off this weekend. Indian Rock already built Simonson&rsquo;s foundation. Fleau de Baian just needs to show up. If Simonson wants to 7x his prize money, though, Felix needs to put down his best.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The good news for Simonson is that Fleau de Baian&rsquo;s best is plenty. That 76.570% beats the winning score in 16 of the 23 qualifiers this season. His 74.450% average beats only seven, but that&rsquo;s because the partnership is new and the early tests are still dragging the number down. The trend tells you more about this pair than the average does, and the trend is good. His freestyle score has gone up at every finish, and his last two were both above 76%. Right now, a finishing score in the upper half of the 70s looks like a safe bet.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Simonson can&rsquo;t really lose this weekend. Right now he&rsquo;d collect $1,000 from the leaderboard race. If he finishes the class, worst case, he doubles that. But if he wins, he ties on 55 points with <strong>Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu</strong>. Since he&rsquo;s got the higher freestyle average, he takes 2nd and the $7,500 payout.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">The Long Shot</h2>
<p dir="ltr">Further down the standings, <strong>Eline Eckroth</strong> is the only rider who can change the list of 18 invited to the US Equestrian Open Final. A win takes her from 19 points to 34. That would put Eckroth 17th, <strong>Leonardo Antonio Godoy</strong> 18th, and bump <strong>Susan Pape</strong> out. That is, well, an unlikely scenario, but wilder things have happened in the US Equestrian Open of Dressage.</p>
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Christian Simonson trotting on Fleau de Baian in a dressage competition in competition gear

Kane Needs Her Best Ride Yet to Stop Simonson at TerraNova

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<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Sharon White</strong> &amp; <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Claus 63</strong> are the 2026 US Equestrian Open of Eventing champions. They finished on 30.8 at Morven Park: 26.0 in the dressage, clear across the country with 4.8 time penalties, clear and inside the time in the show jumping.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was White's first long-format four-star win since <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">The King's Spirit</strong> at Bromont in June 2008. She is also the first woman to win a US Equestrian Open Final in any discipline.</p>

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<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Between Bromont and Morven Park, White started 19 CCI4*-L and 13 CCI5*-L competitions on five different horses: <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Rafferty's Rules</strong>, <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Wundermaske</strong>, <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Under Suspection</strong>, <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Cooley On Show</strong> and Claus 63.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She came close. Fourth at Jersey Fresh in 2010 and again in 2014. Fifth at Bromont in 2011. Second at Tryon in 2021. At five-star, she finished 8th at Kentucky in 2018 and completed at Luhm&uuml;hlen and Pau. The win never came.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The road started long before 2008. White had her first riding lesson at 12. She rode and worked at Deana Vaughn's Tail Wind Farm through high school, then worked for Olympic event rider <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Torrance Watkins</strong> from 1991 to 1994 while studying English at George Mason University. From 1997 to 2000, she worked and trained with <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Bruce Davidson</strong> at Chesterland Farm.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She completed the long-format four-star at Fair Hill in 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 2002 she also completed Kentucky and the inaugural Foxhall, and her family bought what is now Last Frontier Farm in Summit Point, West Virginia.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In August 2005, an accident shattered her pelvis and fractured her sacrum. By May 2006 she was competing internationally again. In April 2007 she was back at Kentucky with <strong style="color:#001c54;font-weight:700;">Ronaldo</strong>. A year later, she won Bromont.</p>

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<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Claus 63 has been with White since his international debut in 2019. He won a team silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago. His record at CCI4*-L was harder going.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eliminated at Jersey Fresh in 2021. Eliminated at Morven Park that October. Second at Tryon a month later. Eliminated at Bromont and at Morven Park in 2022. Last year at Morven Park, they were 2nd after a 25.2 dressage, then picked up 20 cross-country penalties and finished 10th.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year they came back to Virginia for a fourth try. Last Frontier Farm is just over the state line. This time the course gave something back.</p>

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      <tr style="background:#ffffff;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2021</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Jersey Fresh</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">30.1</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">EL</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#f7f8fc;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2021</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Morven Park</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">33.1</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">EL</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#ffffff;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2021</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Tryon</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">29.9</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">2nd</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#f7f8fc;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2022</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Bromont</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">29.7</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">EL</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#ffffff;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2022</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Morven Park</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">29.0</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">EL</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#f7f8fc;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2023</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Tryon</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">32.8</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">8th</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#ffffff;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2025</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Morven Park</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">25.2</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">10th</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#f7f8fc;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2026</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">Bromont</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">31.4</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">WD</td></tr>
      <tr style="background:#f3f0e8;border-top:1px solid #eef0f5;"><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;">2026</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;font-weight:700;color:#001c54;">Morven Park</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:13px;color:#374172;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;">26.0</td><td style="padding:10px 8px;font-size:14px;font-weight:800;color:#c8102e;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">1st</td></tr>
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    <div style="font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6b7280;margin-bottom:8px;">Between wins</div>
    <div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#c8102e;line-height:1.1;margin-bottom:8px;">18 years</div>
    <div style="font-size:13px;color:#1a1a2e;line-height:1.5;">Bromont, June 2008, to Morven Park, October 2026. Her first long-format four-star win since The King's Spirit.</div>
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    <div style="font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6b7280;margin-bottom:8px;">Long-format starts</div>
    <div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;line-height:1.1;margin-bottom:8px;">32</div>
    <div style="font-size:13px;color:#1a1a2e;line-height:1.5;">19 at CCI4*-L and 13 at CCI5*-L in between, on five horses. Best result before Sunday: 2nd at Tryon in 2021.</div>
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    <div style="font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6b7280;margin-bottom:8px;">HPR</div>
    <div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;line-height:1.1;margin-bottom:8px;">97.4</div>
    <div style="font-size:13px;color:#1a1a2e;line-height:1.5;">The highest High Performance Rating of White's international career on record. HPR measures the quality of a single performance, adjusted for field and course.</div>
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    <div style="font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6b7280;margin-bottom:8px;">Claus 63 Elo</div>
    <div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#001c54;line-height:1.1;margin-bottom:8px;">618</div>
    <div style="font-size:13px;color:#1a1a2e;line-height:1.5;">Up from 589 coming into the Final. A career high for the 14-year-old.</div>
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<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:24px 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Across the four previous Finals, women made up 52 of the 123 combinations and took four of the 12 podium spots. Every title went to a man. In a sport where women and men compete as equals, it took five Finals for a woman to win one.</p>
<p style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.72;color:#1a1a2e;margin:0 0 14px 0;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eighteen years. Thirty-two long-format starts. Four tries at Morven Park. White kept going. It paid off in Virginia.</p>
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