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Laura Chapot makes another HITS win

Sep 8, 2012

Coming off an enormously successful summer show season at HITS Saugerties, Laura Chapot cruised to another victory in today’s $30,000 G&C Farm Wild Card Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, aboard her and McLain Ward’s Quointreau Un Prince. With Frank Chapot on her mind, who is currently on the mend after surgery to repair a subdural hematoma earlier this summer, Chapot topped a 17-horse jump-off for her sixth HITS-on-the-Hudson grand prix victory this year.

17 riders were clear over the first round and advanced to the jump-off. Chapot set the bar high when she returned first and posted the Great American Time to Beat at 42.19 seconds.

After recently returning from representing Australia in the Olympic Games in London, Matt Williams piloted Samantha Tuerk’s Watch Me VD Mangelaar to a second-place finish. Just five tenths of a second separated him from the win as he crossed the timers 42.65 seconds. 

Again, just fractions of a second off the lead, Aaron Vale rode Amen Corner Farm, LLC’s Palm Sunday to third in a time of 42.73 seconds. Darrah Kenney rode to fourth place in the irons of Ilan Ferder’s Shum CW with a jump-off time of 42.96 seconds. Rounding out a tightly placed top-five was Tracy Fenney. She piloted MTM Genau, one of one of her two mounts for the day, to fifth.

Source: pressrelease HITS