FEI North American Youth
ADEQUAN® FEI NORTH AMERICAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS Sophie and Mimi Gochman made their
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first appearance at the Adequan® FEI North American Youth Championships (NAYC) a truly memorable one as the sisters each claimed an individual gold medal in the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) North American Show Jumping Individual Champi- onship. Sophie captured the title in the Young Rider division, while Mimi emerged victorious in the Junior division as the NAYC wrapped up at Old Salem Farm in North Salem, NY, on August 4.
The Gochman sisters decided last summer
to make NAYC a goal for their 2019 season and they both jumped on the USHJA Zone 2 team for their respective divisions. Sophie helped her Zone 2 Young Rider team take bronze, while Mimi helped the Zone 2 Junior team earn silver. “We decided that it’s an important competition and we wanted to go for it. We’re sometimes a little competitive, but we’re also really supportive of each other,” Sophie said. “This week was nice because we weren’t in the same division. We were really cheering each other on this week and it’s so great that we both got [individual] gold.” Sam Walker, 17, from Caledon, Ontario, ended up with the individual Young Rider sil- ver with MarBill Hill Farm’s Coralissa, a nine- year-old Holsteiner mare. Earlier in the week, he’d helped his Canadian Young Rider team win the gold medal.
Natalie Dean, 20, of Palo Alto, CA, rode Marigold Sporthorses LLC and her own Don’s Diamant, an 11-year-old KWPN stallion, to the individual bronze, adding that to the team sil- ver she’d helped her USHJA Zone 10 capture. Sophie also was awarded the United States Equestrian Team Foundation Max- ine Beard Show Jumping Developing Rider Award, which includes a trip to an FEI Nations Cup competition. Sophie will be able to ob- serve what goes on in the stabling, veterinary inspections, schooling, and show office, as well as being able to walk the courses with U.S. team riders and the chef d’equipe.
The Junior individual silver medal went back to Mexico with Maya Ines Denis Chambon, 15, from Valle de Bravo, Mexico, and Carine Chambon’s Fly- ing Dutchman, a nine-year-old KWPN stallion. Ear- lier in the week, Denis had earned team gold with the
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Sophie Gochman & Carola BH
Isaac Parada Urtaza & Tarnot
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Children’s Gold for
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Mexico The youngest show jumper
at the NAYC, competing on the oldest horse in the show jump- ing, claimed the individual gold in the USHJA North American Children’s Show Jumping Individ- ual Championship. Isaac Parada Urtaza,
12, from Guadalajara,
Mexican team. Virginia Bonnie, 15, from Upperville, VA, and
Kimberly Prince’s Corneel, a 12-year-old KWPN gelding, claimed the bronze. Bonnie, who was mak- ing her NAYC debut, had jumped on USHJA Zone 3 team. w
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Mexico, was competing at NAYC as an individual from Mexico and rode Amelia Vernon’s Tarnot, a 19-year-old KWPN gelding, to two clear rounds on the final day of competition to clinch the gold. Last year’s NAYC Children’s individual gold medalist, Olivia Stephenson of Canada, claimed silver this year, while Ella Bikoff from USHJA Zone 2 took the bronze individual medal.w
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