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Louis Jacobs Wins the 1.45m at Week Three of the Winter Equestrian Festival

January 28, 2010

Wellington, FL --– The competition was close in the $8,000 1.45m class held in the International Ring at Palm Beach International Equestrian Club in Wellington, Florida. Louis Jacobs beat out Jeffery Welles by a hundredth of a second with a time of 32.122 seconds during the jump-off. He won the class riding his eleven-year-old Belgian warmblood Kachina. Jacobs rides for Deeridge Farm located in East Aurora, New York and Wellington, Florida.

Forty-one people competed in the International Ring during the 1.45m class over Olaf Peterson Jr.'s difficult track. Jacobs completed the first round without fault and moved on to the jump off and also left all the jumps standing with the fastest time. “Kachina was a good girl today," commented Jacobs. "The course today truly favored a horse like Kachina with a big stride.”

Jacobs won the 2009 Amateur-Owner High Jumper Circuit Championship, and has been slowly moving Kachina up in the levels since the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) started. During Week One, Kachina and Jacobs entered the Amateur-Owner Medium Jumpers and ended up in the top of the class. Then in Week Two Kachina and Jacobs entered the class of Amateur-Owner Jumper High Power and Speed where he placed second in the competition.

This week the fences were as high as 4’9” with spreads to 5’3” in the 1.45m class. “I am gradually moving Kachina up in fence height as we move through each week of WEF,” Jacobs continued. “I am looking forward to Saturday’s event in the 1.50m Suncast Classic II.”

Jacobs will compete with Deeridge Farm throughout the Winter Equestrian Festival before returning to their farm in East Aurora, New York.

RESULTS

ORDER ENTRY # HORSE NAME RIDER NAME OWNER TIME 1 TIME 2

1 2357 KACHINA LOUIS JACOBS DEERIDGE FARM 84.348 32.122

2 1419 ZYCARLA Z JEFFERY WELLES ABIGAIL WEXNER 0.000 32.161

3 1757 UTAN ANGELA COVERT-LAWRENCE EASTWOOD GROUP 83.047 32.321

4 1945 RADIO CITY GEORGINA BLOOMBERG GOTHAM ENTERPRIZES 0.000 33.126

5 3078 TORTOLA LAURA KRAUT BEVERLY WIDDOWSON 86.456 33.878

6 2984 MURKA'S MR. BACARDI PETER CHARLES PETER CHARLES 85.768 34.280

7 1312 TORONTO CANDICE KING AAA EQ. LLC 0.000 35.011

8 2491 CREDIT CRUISE ALEXA LOWE WINDSOR FARM SALES 84.345 36.424

9 1112 Q'S CHARM RAMIRO QUINTANA KATHRYN QUIRK 0.000 32.222

10 1809 VERDETT MCLAIN WARD MCLAIN WARD 0.000 32.365

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