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Frankie Chesler-Ortiz Starts Horse Shows by the Bay Series II with a Win aboard Aslan


Traverse City, MI - July 21, 2010 - The 2010 Horse Shows by the Bay Equestrian Festival continued with its second week of hunter/jumper competition on Wednesday with the start of the professional hunter and open jumper divisions at the beautiful Flintfields Horse Park in Traverse City, MI. The jumpers took main stage in the Grand Prix Ring this morning with wins for Frankie Chesler-Ortiz and Lisa Jacquin in the 1.30m and 1.35m Jumper divisions. The horses and riders showed over tracks set by renowned course designer Guilherme Jorge of Brazil.


“Aslan has had a few breaks in his career with a few minor injuries and so he has been back showing now for about a year and doing really well,” Chesler-Ortiz explained. “He is very com- petitive, and last week’s grand prix was the biggest class that I have done with him so far and he was really good.”


“He really likes to go fast; he is a bit hot, but really rideable, so it is actually a nice ride,” Chesler-Ortiz con- tinued. “He plays a little bit and has fun with it. I know that he likes showing and he


Showing first in the morning, the $1,000 1.30m Jumpers competed thanks to the generous sponsorship of Blue Gate Farm and Denise Wilson of Oconomowoc, WI. The class saw 20 entries and an impressive twelve pairs were able to jump clear in the first round to advance to the jump-off. Five of those entries jumped double clear, and it was the fastest time of 32.297 seconds within the 45-second time allowed, which earned Frankie Chesler-Ortiz and Aslan the top call.


Chelser-Ortiz and Aslan beat out the previously post- ed double clear of Richard Moloney and Olympic Lad in 32.382 seconds to push that pair into second place. Michael Tokaruk and Roger Rabbit made a valiant effort to beat the time, but finished in 32.927 seconds to finish in third place. Kim Farlinger and Bay Street were just a second slower in 33.795 sec- onds to earn the fourth place honors, and Juan Ortiz and Ghandi had the only other double clear round in 34.249 seconds to finish in fifth. Class winner Frankie Chesler-Ortiz is from Orangeville, ON Canada and runs Sher-Al Farm with her husband, Juan Ortiz. Her mount for today’s class, Aslan, is an eleven-year-old chestnut gelding that she pur- chased as a six-year-old.


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really fast from fence one to two,” she said. “Everywhere else I did the same inside turns as everyone else, but I really galloped from one to two hard and then I just fin- ished the rest at a nice coast.” Aslan and Chesler-Ortiz will show in this week’s Welcome Prix and Grand Prix classes. “This was just a class that he could just go in and kind of have fun and play and not make too much of an effort,” Chesler-Ortiz concluded. “He made a few big efforts last week, so I just wanted to give him a class that he could go in and relax


off to finish in third place.


Casa Blanca La Silla and Lisa Jacquin


Frankie Chesler-Ortiz Triumphed in the $1,000 1.30m Jumpers at Horse Shows by the Bay II. Photos © 2010 Lauren Fisher/PMG.


is a good boy, so it is very enjoyable to ride him.”


Frankie Chesler-Ortiz and Aslan


Chesler-Ortiz comment- ed on today’s course, which she noted was a change from Pierre Jolicoeur’s courses from last week. “The course was really nice today, it was very different from Pierre’s courses, but it is nice to change it up each week and do different things,” she noted.


and have fun. He is a little bit sensitive, so he tries really hard.”


Many horses were very close in their times in today’s jump-off, but it was Aslan who stopped the clock the fastest. Chesler-Ortiz thought that her gallop at the begin- ning of the course is what made the difference. “I didn’t really get a chance to watch anyone else go but I was


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Also showing in the Grand Prix Ring this after- noon was the $1,250 1.35m Jumpers with a win for Lisa Jacquin and Casa Blanca La Silla. Jacquin and Casa Blan- ca La Silla completed one of just three clear trips in the first round of the class to jump-off. The pair was first to attempt the shortened course and stopped the clock in 33.358 seconds, which would be the fastest time for the win. Blythe Marano and Askaban jumped off next and finished double clear in 42.300 seconds to take home second place honors. Luke Tokaruk and Lucius 35 jumped clear in the first round, but chose to voluntari- ly withdraw from the jump-


Class winner Casa Blanca La Silla is an eight- year-old gray Holsteiner mare owned by Flintwoode Farms, LLC. The mare was first shown by Anne Kursin- ski in 2009 and then went on to a great partnership with Lisa Jacquin this year. Jacquin has been showing the mare in the Seven & Eight-Year-Old Young Jumper division and the 1.35m Jumpers this winter and spring, including com- peting at the Winter Eques- trian Festival in Florida, the Kentucky Spring Horse Shows in Lexington, and the Devon Horse Show in Penn- sylvania. The mare has placed well all year and shows great talent as an up and coming young horse. The 2010 Horse Shows by the Bay Equestrian Festi- val will continue tomorrow with a full schedule of hunter/jumper competition at the Flintfields Horse Park. In the hunter rings, the pro- fessional hunters will wrap up their division champi- onships for week two and will award championship and grand championship tri-


Lisa Jacquin and Casa Blanca La Silla Won the $1,250 1.35m Photos © 2010 Lauren Fisher/PMG.


colors. In the Grand Prix Ring, the Five-Year-Old, Six-Year-Old, and Seven & Eight-Year-Old Young Jumper will be featured as they compete in qualifiers for their divisions. For more information, please visit www.horseshowsbythebay.c om.


Results


$1000 1.30 Meter Jumpers Table ii, Sec 2 (b)


1/ 644, Aslan, Frankie Chesler - Ortiz, Sher-All Farm, 0, 0, 32.297


2/ 548, Olympic Lad, Lisa Kent Richard Moloney, 0, 0 , 32.382 3/ 280, Roger Rabbit, Michael Tokaruk, Michael Tokaruk, 0, 0, 32.927


4/ 675, Bay Streetkim, Far- linger, Peter Farlinger, 0, 0, 33.795


5/ 645, Ghandi, Juan Ortiz, Juan Ortiz, 0, 0, 34.249


$1250 1.35 Meter Jumpers Table ii, Sec 2 (b)


1/ 71, Casa Blanca La Silla Lisa Jacquin, Flintwoode Farms LLC, 0, 0, 33.358


2/ 98, Askaban, Blythe Marano, Riverview Farm, LLC, 0, 0, 42.300


3/ 279, Lucius 35, Luke Tokaruk, Luke Tokaruk, 0, WD 4/ 667, Caruso Van Paemel Z, Kim Mervyn, Jennifer Foot- man, 4, 70.738


5/ 147, Chanel Z, Brian Shook, Equestrian Endeavors, 4, 71.567


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