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Articles: Press Release
Margie Engle Wins The Golden Arrow Open Jump-off at 35th Annual Lake Placid
Horse Show
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Contact: Marty Bauman, (508) 698-6810
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Lake Placid, NY—July 3, 2004—Margie Engle of Wellington, FL rode Nobility to
victory in the Golden Arrow 1.45m Open Jump-off Saturday at the 35th annual
Lake Placid Horse Show.
Engle was one of only four from the starting field of 24 to qualify for the
tiebreaking jump-off by riding without penalty over the 14-jump, first-round
course at the North Elba Showgrounds. She was the third of the four to try
the seven-jump tiebreaker, riding immediately after Christine Tribble of
Suffield, CT who took the class lead with a clean jump-off ride in 37.882
seconds on Vegas. Engle, the Sydney Olympic veteran who has been a
Grandprix champion in Lake Placid six times, beat Tribble’s time, finishing
in 34.549 seconds for the win. Third place went to Ramiro Quintana of
Argentina who finished the jump-off with four faults in 34.735 seconds on
LaBelle.
Saturday’s other big winner was Kate Levy of South Salem, NY who rode
Sampson to victory in the Charlotte Bobcats Amateur-Owner Jumper Classic.
Engle, Tribble, Quintana and Levy are all among the 45 entries in the
$50,000 Budweiser Grandprix of Lake Placid for the Whitney Perpetual
Challenge Trophy that concludes the 35th annual Lake Placid Horse Show on
Sunday afternoon.
Levy, whose win in the Charlotte Bobcats Jumper Classic clinched her the
horse show’s Low Amateur-Owner championship, was one of 12 entries from the
starting field of 62 to reach the jump-off with a clean first round. She
then turned in a second clean round and her time of 29.215 seconds was the
day’s fastest to earn her the win.
Saturday’s other winners included Julie Welles, who won the Adirondack Life
Low Junior Jumper Classic on Lapeti and Jane Silfen who won The Phelps
School North American League (NAL) Adult Amateur Jumper Classic on Mancuso.
Silfen’s win earned her and Mancuso the championship in the horse show’s
Adult Jumper (age 18-40) division.
The Phelps School Adult Amateur Jumper Classic is part of the North American
League (NAL) that runs season-long series in six hunter and jumper
divisions – Children’s Hunter, Children’s Jumper, Adult Hunter, Adult
Jumper, Pony Jumper, and Open Jumper Speed. Each series culminates with a
championship final at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg,
PA, in October. Riders need not be members of the NAL to compete in any
qualifying classes, but only current members earn points toward year-end
finals. For more information and a list of qualifying competitions for
2004, please visit the Ryegate Show Services website at www.Ryegate.com.
The 2004 Lake Placid Horse Show concludes Sunday with its main event, the
$50,000 Budweiser Grandprix of Lake Placid for the Whitney Perpetual
Challenge Trophy. The Whitney Perpetual Challenge Trophy was donated to the
Lake Placid Horse Shows by Mary Lou Whitney, whose horse Birdstone upset
Smarty Jones to win the Belmont Stakes and deny the popular Smarty Jones his
bid to win racing’s Triple Crown. This year, for the first time, the Lake
Placid Horse Shows are presenting the $25,000 Hidden Creek Challenge, with a
$25,000 bonus to be awarded to any rider who wins both the Budweiser Grand
Prix of Lake Placid and next week’s $50,000 Hermes I Love New York Grand
Prix. The I Love New York Horse Show will follow the Lake Placid Horse
Show, running July 7-11 at the same site.
The 2004 Lake Placid Horse Show and I Love New York Horse Show sponsors
include A& M Beverages, Adirondack Life, Adirondack Store, American
Grandprix Association, Anonymous, Ariat International, Inc., Barbara &
Michael Bitterman, Brandy Parfums, Ltd., The Brown Dog Cafe and Wine Bar,
Budweiser, The Charlotte Bobcats, Jane Forbes Clark, C.M. Hadfield’s
Saddlery, Inc., The Cottage Cafe, The Country Saddler, Ltd., David R. Fowler
Custom Tack Trunks, Der Dau Custom Boots and Shoes, Fox Run, Ltd., Golden
Arrow Hotel, Hermes, Hilton Lake Placid Resort, The Hooker Family, Horse
Watch, James Leslie Parker Photography, Juliam Farm, Lake Placid Lodge, Lake
Placid Resort Hotel & Golf Club, Lake Placid/Essex County Visitors Bureau,
The Levy Family, Lonesome Landing Garden Center, M&M Mars, McDonald’s,
Mirror Lake Inn, Moss Communications, Mountain Horse, Mr. Mike’s Pizza &
Pasta, Muirfield Insurance, Inc., Nicola’s Over Main, North Elba Park
District, On a Fence Designs & Rentals, ORDA/Whiteface Mountain, The Pepsi
Bottling Group, The Phelps School, The Phillips Family, Pin Oak Farm,
Practical Horseman, Price Chopper, Red-Kap Sales, Ruthie’s Run, Sidelines,
Shamrock Ventures LLC, SLVR by Aerogear, Trelawny Farm, Turtle Lane Farm,
The Tytel Family, Unusual Silver, U.S. Olympic Spirit Store, Wild Horse
Wines, Woodlea Farms and WPTZ News Channel 5.
Admission to the Lake Placid and I Love New York Horse Shows is just $2.00
on weekdays and $5.00 on weekends. Children under the age of 12 are
admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Tickets are available at the
gate. For more information, please call the Lake Placid Horse Show
Association at (518) 523-9625 or visit www.lakeplacidhorseshow.com.
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