Barnes Wins Olde Mill Farm Sprint Enduro
A
fter a chaotic opening to
the 2026 U.S. Sprint Enduro
Series that produced three dif-
ferent winners in three rounds,
Liqui Moly Beta rider Cody
Barnes emerged as the first
repeat victor after a hard-fought
battle at round four's Olde Mill
Farm Sprint Enduro in Charlotte
Hall, Maryland.
Barnes secured the overall
win with a 1-2 result over the
two-day event, edging FMF KTM
Factory Racing's Grant Davis's
2-1 by the slimmest of margins.
Barnes struck early Satur
-
day with a 5.5-second win in
the opening cross test. Davis
answered immediately, claiming
the enduro test by just one-tenth
of a second and trimming off
another 1.7 seconds in the third
test. Cooper Jones (KTM) held
third at the midway point, eight
seconds behind Davis. When it
counted most, Barnes respond
-
ed with wins in two of the final
three tests to take Saturday's
win by just over five seconds.
Jones completed the podium
and earned top Pro 2 honors, fol-
lowed by Husqvarna riders Toby
Cleveland and Brody Johnson.
Colton Shields (Husqvarna) led
the Pro-Am class with a strong
sixth overall.
"I got off to a good start in
the first cross test," said Barnes.
"It was obviously a fresh grass
field, and I was able to roll the
corners and set some stuff
up. But at the end of the day, it
seemed like I went backward in
the cross test while Grant picked
it up. I think I was just trying too
hard to set up my corners more,
and the course had some big silt
berms, and it just didn't work."
Davis struck first on Sunday,
opening with a 3.5-second win
in the cross test over Barnes,
with Cleveland third, again
pacing the Pro 2 class. Barnes
rebounded decisively in test two,
WIND
IN THE
P50
Cody Barnes
captured his second
U.S. Sprint Enduro
win of the season
and now trails
runner-up Grant
Davis in the overall
championship by
14 points.
PHOTOS:
JADE BARNES
