NORTH SALEM, NY. .--Stella Wasserman on Myjorka won the $32,000 FEI 1.45m Two-Phase on week two at the Old Salem Spring Horse Shows on Thursday, May 14.
Stella Wasserman on Myjorka (Photo by SEL Photography)Wasserman went second of 47 entries over the course set by Alan Wade and set an early time to beat of 26.58 seconds, that held onto the top of the leaderboard through the rest of the class to win.
First to go, Jessica Springsteen on Naomi Van Het Keizershof had set an early clean round score of 27.19 seconds to ultimately place second.
Charlotte Jacobs on Cristiano Obolenskwas the only other rider to catch Springsteen’s time without a fault, placing second place behind Wasserman in 27.15 seconds.
“To be honest, I didn’t think our time would hold with so many others coming after us,” Wasserman said. “We had people like McLain Ward and Daniel Bluman, and Charlotte Jacobs was very fast today. It was such a strong field that I honestly thought someone was going to beat us, but I’m grateful it was our day.
“FOR THE gray mare that I won on, this is like her bread and butter,” she saidd. “She really excels in classes like this, so I knew I had a good chance as long as I stuck to my plan and executed well. My other horse is preparing for bigger things in the future, so we just wanted to use today as a warmup round. The mare I won on will jump again on Saturday, the other horse will jump tomorrow, and then we’ll go from there.”
Wasserman on her second horse, A Man After Midnight Z, was clean in phase one but didn't go in phase two to save the horse for Sunday's grand prix.
Sam Hutton of Great Britain on WKD Toronto was fourth, clean in 27.24, with McLain Ward on Le Louvre 5 fifth in 27.40 and Pieter de Brabandere of Belgium on Dothraki Warlord sixth in 28.11.
