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Third Former Wins Equestrian Competition
At the 2012 Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) at Verizon Center in downtown Washington D.C., Oct. 23-28, Nina Montross ’16, a resident of Bedford, N.Y., took first place in the $10,000 WIHS Children’s Jumper Championship aboard Caprifol.
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Thirty-two entries showed in the first round of the children’s championship, and 11 jumped clear to advance to the jump-off. Nina and Caprifol, owned by Palm Meadow Farm LLC, completed the only double clear round to earn the victory in 26.456 seconds, which was also the fastest round. For the win, the pair was presented with The H. Fenwick Kollock Memorial Perpetual Trophy, donated by Friends of Fen.
“It is really exciting to win here,” said Nina after the results. Nina started riding in the hunters when she was younger, but quickly realized how much fun it was to go fast. Her trainer at the time, Jennifer Bliss, got her started in the pony jumpers, and Nina is moving up the levels now riding with Jimmy Torano.
Nina described what she loves about showing in the jumpers saying, “It is really just you and your horse against the course and what you can do out there. I really like going fast. I like feeling speed, and I like the feeling after you go really fast in the jump-off and then stopping. You just feel accomplished.”
“Caprifol is always fast,” she added. “I just have to stay on the speed the whole round and work on not being choppy. Sometimes I’ll either be really fast or really slow, so I just have to work on a happy medium.”
An equestrian tradition since 1958, the WIHS is the country’s leading metropolitan indoor horse show and the pinnacle of the equestrian year with top riders, including Olympic medalists and their world-class horses. More than 500 horses participate in show jumping, hunter and equitation events during the six-day event, with many competing all year just to qualify.
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