Laura Chapot Sweeps Both Open Jumper Classes Friday
at 34th Annual Lake Placid Horse Show
Lake Placid, NY—June 27, 2003—Laura Chapot of Neshanic Station,
NJ rode to victory in both featured open jumper classes Friday at
the 34th annual Lake Placid Horse Show. The 31-year-old daughter of
Olympic veterans Frank and Mary Chapot won the Lake Placid Resort
North American League (NAL) Speed Stake on Three Coins and the Turtle
Lane Farm Welcome Stake on Little Big Man.
Chapot
earned her win in the speed stake by completing the 13-jump one-round
course at the North Elba Showgrounds in the day’s fastest time
of 57.441 seconds. The 26th of 28 entries, Chapot took the win away
from Sydney Olympic veteran and seven-time American Grandprix Association
(AGA) Rider of the Year Margie Goldstein Engle of Wellington, FL
who had been leading throughout most of the class with a time of
58.257 seconds on Camille.
In
the Welcome Stake, Chapot edged another Olympic veteran with a fast
ride at the end of the class. One of only three entries from the
starting field of 20 to reach a tiebreaking jump-off by riding without
penalty over the 15-jump first-round course, she also rode fault-free
over the eight-jump second-round course and her time of 35.357 seconds
proved good enough to edge four-time Olympian Anne Kursinski of
Flemington, NJ. Kursinski had been leading with a time of 36.072
seconds on Indeed.
Chapot,
Engle and Kursinski are expected to be among the star-studded field
competing Sunday when the 2003 Lake Placid Horse Show culminates
with the week’s main event, the $50,000 Budweiser Grand Prix
of Lake Placid for the Whitney Perpetual Challenge Trophy. Prior
to the Grand Prix, Sunday’s schedule features the Salamander
Farm High Junior Jumper Classic and the Mirror Lake Inn Amateur-Owner
Jumper Classic, both member events of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame
Jumper Classic Series. The Juliam Farm Lead Line class and C.M.
Hadfield’s Saddlery Parade of Champions will then be held immediately
before the Grand Prix which is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m.
Sunday’s
action also features a full day of Hunter Classics including the
$3,000 Junior/Amateur-Owner Hunter Classic, the $3,000 NAL Adult
Amateur Hunter Classic as well as the $3,000 NAL Children’s
Hunter Classic. Saturday horse show action features the Hilton Resort
Open Jumper Stake.
Sponsors
for the 2003 Lake Placid and I Love New York Horse Shows include
A&M Beverages, Inc., Adirondack Life, American Grandprix Association,
Anonymous, Ariat International, Inc., Bayer Legend, Brandy Parfums,
Inc., Budweiser/Anheuser Busch, Inc., C.M. Hadfield’s Saddlery,
Inc., David R. Fowler Custom Tack Trunks, Der Dau Custom Made Boots
& Shoes, Enterprise rent-a-car, Fox Run Ltd., Golden Arrow Hotel,
Hermès, Hilton Lake Placid Resort, Jane Forbes Clark, Juliam
Farm, Kiehl’s Since 1851, Lake Placid Resort, Lake Placid/Essex
County Visitors’ Bureau, Lisa A. H. Cudahy, Lonesome Landing,
M&M Mars, Mirror Lake Inn/The Cottage, McDonald’s of Lake
Placid, Moss Communications, Nicola’s Family Restaurants, Barbara
Nugent and Michael Bitterman, On a Fence Designs and Rentals, ORDA-Whiteface
Mountain, The Country Saddler, The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., Pin
Oak Farm, Price Chopper, Red Kap Sales, Inc./CITGO, Salamander Farm,
Sand Castle Farm/The Dammerman Family, Shamrock Ventures LLC, Sidelines,
The Brown Dog Café & Wine Bar, The Hooker Family, The
Levy Family, The Phelps School, The Phillips Family, Town of North
Elba Park District, Trelawny Farm, Turtle Lane Farm, Unusual Silver,
U.S. Olympic Spirit Stores, Wild Horse Winery and WPTZ News Channel
5.
Admission
to the Lake Placid and I Love New York Horse Shows is $5.00 on Saturday
and Sunday with children under the age of 12 admitted free. Tickets
are available at the gate.
The
Lake Placid Horse Show is featured each morning at 9:00 a.m. on
Adelphia cable channels 2 and 22. For more information, please call
the Lake Placid Horse Show Association at (518) 523-9625 or visit
www.lakeplacidhorseshow.com.
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