JULY 2022 THE RIDER /43


Laura Chapot Wins $100,000 Richard M. Feldman Grand Prix at Lake Placid Horse Shows


Chapot is Just Seventh Rider to Sweep Both Lake Placid Grand Prix in Same Year


Lake Placid, NY – July 9, 2022 – Laura Chapot rode Diarado’s Flying Dutchman to the win in the $100,000 Richard M. Feldman Grand Prix at the I Love New York Horse Show, the second week of the 2022 Lake Placid Horse Shows, Spon- sored by Bainbridge Farms, LLC, and Presented by Sea Shore


Stables, LLC.


Chapot’s win made her just the seventh rider ever to sweep both Lake Placid Grand Prix in the same year. Chapot was one of nine


entries to reach the jump-off with a fault-free ride over the 15-effort, first-round course


designed by


Bernardo Costa Cabral, course designer for next year’s FEI World Cup™ Fi- nals in Omaha. First to re- turn for the eight-jump tiebreaker course was Alex Matz on Erdento Van De Leeuwerk. Matz, who won the class last year on David- son, set the mark to beat with a clean ride in 36.557 seconds. Matz’s


lead held


through the next five rides before Chapot returned on her 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding. She blazed to a clean ride in 35.205 seconds in what proved to be the winning ride. Matz’s time held up for second place with third going to Mattias Tromp who finished clean in 36.849 seconds on Infuria P&P. Fourth went to Carly Anthony on Heavenly W


with Matz taking fifth on Ikigai. “With that horse, I just


have to keep him moving and focused on the next jump,” Chapot said. “He’s naturally a very fast horse and his turns have gotten a lot better. We’ve developed a very good level of trust be- tween the two of us and I can be very patient at the jump. As long as I know he’s looking at the jump, then I know he tries his best. “All of our horses love


this field, and it is so great that we get to come up here each year,” she added. “It’s always the best two weeks of our summer!” With her win on Chan-


don Blue in the first week’s $100,000 Great American Insurance Group Grand Prix Presented by Alliant Private Client, Chapot joined a se- lect group of riders to sweep both Lake Placid Grand Prix in the same year. The list in- cludes Show Jumping Hall of Famers Leslie Burr Howard and Margie Gold- stein Engle, as well as Deb- bie Dolan-Sweeney, Jeffrey Welles, Darragh Kenny and Alex Matz who turned the trick last year. Following her win,


Chapot was honored with the Richard & Diana Feld- man Perpetual Trophy for Excellence, awarded to the rider with the most com- bined money won in Lake Placid’s two Grand Prix. Chapot’s mother, Mary, was


ern Hay, Empire Merchants North/1800 Tequila, Equi- Jet, Fab Finds by Sara, Far- mVet, Inc., Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, Great American Insurance Group, Hampton Inn, High Peaks Resort, Hooker Family, Horseshoe Trail Farm, Jeff Lukens Horse Transporta- tion, J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, John R. Steele Me- morial,


Juliam Farm, Laura Chapot and Diarado’s Flying Dutchman © KindMedia


honored with the Leading Trainer award. Prior to the Grand Prix,


Michael Desiderio rode Sterrehof’s Edinus to the win in the $20,000 Deeridge Farms 1.40m Stake. Deside- rio was one of 12 entries to reach the jump-off and he claimed the win with the fastest clean ride in the jump-off,


finishing in


30.295 seconds. Placing second was Jimmy Torano who had a clean jump-off ride in 30.575 seconds on Kochio Z, and third went to Christian Coyle who had a clean jump-off


ride in


31.476 seconds on Heviola. For the second straight


week, Zayna Rizvi and Ex- cellent rode to the win in the $10,000 Show Jumping Hall


Junior/Amateur


of Fame High Junior/Ama- teur Jumper Classic. Riding last of the eight in the jump- off, Rizvi knew she had to beat the very fast time of 31.852 seconds turned in by Hailey Royce on Sonic Boom. She blazed over the course and claimed the win with a time of 30.190 sec- onds. Completing North Run’s sweep of the top three places was Alexander Al- ston who finished third with a time of 32.188 seconds on Prestigious. In the $7,500 Medium Jumper


Classic, Robert Matz claimed the win on Stalando with two clean rounds and the fastest jump-off time of 36.094 seconds. Kathryn McCarthy was second with a time of 36.456 seconds on Carramar C, and third went to Amy Shafmaster who fin- ished in 36.287 seconds on Infante SK. Full show results are


available online. The Lake Placid Horse


Laura Chapot and Diarado’s Flying Dutchman © KindMedia


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Zayna Rizvi and Excellent © KindMedia


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