LAKE PLACID, N.Y.--Laura Chapot rode Chandon Blue to win the $30,000 Open Jumper Classic Thursday. July 8 at the I Love New York Horse Show, the second of two weeks of the 2021 Lake Placid Horse Shows.

Laura Chapot on Chandon Blue (Photo by KindMedia)Ten of 30 entries reached the jump-off by going clean over the 14-jump, first-round course designed by Ken Krome.

Chapot was the second to return for the eight-jump tiebreaker course and she set the mark to beat with another clean ride and a time of 40.233 seconds.

 

THE REMAINING eight entries tried and failed to catch he,r with Hardin Towell coming closest on Joris VD Bisschop.

Towell finished clean in 40.677 seconds for second place.

Jordan Coyle actually beat Chapot’s time, finishing in 39.286 seconds on Centriko Volo, but a rail down cost him four faults and left him in ninth place.

“I wasn’t really sure if my score would hold up but I was really happy with how my horse performed in the jump-off,” Chapot said. “He was fast, he was careful and he took a stride out to the last fence. I thought I did as much as I could do with him and I just kept my fingers crossed that it would hold up.”