Sunday,
June 27th - Show Jumping
Advanced/Intermediate
Division
Corinne
Ashton and Dobbin jumped a double clear in the Show Jumping Phase and rose from
third place overnight to win the Advanced Intermediate Division at Groton House
II, on Sunday. Their winning score was 38.47.
(Corinne and Dobbin are pictured at the right Show Jumping at Southern Pines,
in March, 2004.)
Laine
Ashker and Eight Saint James Place, who had made a bottle rocket rise from
seventeenth after Dressage to fifth after Cross Country, on the strength of the
only double clear scored all day Saturday, continued towards the stratosphere
with a Show Jumping double clear to finish in second place on 41.74.
Jan
Thompson upheld the honor of the Short Listed Riders and Alternates for the Athens
Olympic Games by placing third with Task Force, who also jumped a double clear
for a final score of 42.21.
Ten
double clears were scored from 24 competitors in the final phase. Abigail Lufkin
and Kildonan Tug, also from the Short List, placed fourth on 43.07. Kildonan Tug
left all the colored tails in place; but, incurred 1 time fault on the course.
David O'Connor, second overnight with Outlawed, had two rails and 3 time faults
to drop to fifth, while the overnight leader, Jessica Moore riding Fibber Magee,
dropped to sixth place when her mount pulled three rails.
The
top placings in the A/I were:
1.
Corinne
Ashton, Dobbin - 38.47 (Dounle Clear)
2. Laine Ashker, Eight Saint James Place
- 41.74 (Double Clear)
3. SL, Jan Thompson, Task Force - 42.21(Double
Clear)
4. SL, Abigail Lufkin, Kildonan Tug - 43.07 (1 time fault)
5.
SL, David O'Connor, Outlawed - 45.52 (8 jumping, 3 time)
6. Jessica
Moore, Fibber Magee - 45.93 (12 jumping)
The
other Short Listed and Alternate Competitors Scored as follows:
12.
A, Karen O'Connor, Upstage - 55.57 (8 jumping)
13. SL, Heidi
White, Northern Spy - 58.85 (3 time faults)
16. A, Jan Thompson, Shared
Dreams - 63.25 (8 jumping, 4 time)
20. SL, Darren Chiacchia, Windfall
- 72.73 (Double Clear)
Mark
Weissbecker and Decordova won the Open Intermediate with a final score
of 47.88. They pulled one rail. Liza Horan placed second with The Silver Prophet
on a double clear, for 48.28. Darren Chiacchia, the overnight leader with San
Salvador, had two rails down to drop to third on a score of 49.62.
Laine
Ashker won the YR/OI riding Frodo Baggins on a score of 43.83.
Winners
of Open Preliminary Divisions were:
A.
Sally
Cousins, Top Deck II - 38.80
B. Mark Weissbecker, Top Gallant - 37.50
C.
Jessica Kiener, My Boy Bobby - 30.90
Jr/YR. Alexandra Wikstrom,
LeQuel - 35.50
For
Complete Scores please click on Event Results at the upper left.
