The weather was balmy, and cute beribboned kids, surrounded by enthusiastic clutches of cooing, photo-snapping parents and relatives, abounded Sunday morning as trainers readied them for the 2-to-4 and 5-to-7-year-old leadline classes, the first of the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show’s competitions in the Grand Prix ring.

East End Stables in East Hampton, owned by Andre and Christine de Leyer, had seven kids there, led by Jen Santacroce, their trainer.

One of them, Layla Weinstein, 8, had won a leadline class here four years ago. Two others, Hannah Hilton and Isla Moskowitz, 6-year-olds, said, when questioned before going on, that they were excited. This writer said he hoped, when it came to naming the various parts of a horse, that they knew what a fetlock was, for he didn’t. 

“They were practicing posting yesterday,” said Hannah’s mother, Pamela. Both, she said, were to ride China, a pony whom they loved caring for.

“They learn everything about horsemanship in pony camp — it’s not just about riding,” Pamela Hilton said, “but about creating relationships with the horses. They brush them, bathe them. . . .”

Marisa Bush, who had brought eight kids from Stony Hill Stables in Amagansett, said the ponies, Darla, Pumpkin, Oscar, Snickers, and Wiz, who’s 30, loved their jobs. 

Stony Hill’s owner, Wick Hotchkiss, an award-winning dressage rider, had stayed behind to give lessons, she said. When asked why the Classic didn’t have any dressage competition — there was to be a dressage demo by Stephanie Brown Beamer of East Hampton later that day in the Grand Prix ring — Bush said, “I don’t know, it would be nice.”

“The fourth generation,” Harriet de Leyer said with a smile after she had led her 3-year-old granddaughter, Addison Bixler, around the ring under the watchful eye of Joe Fargis, a gold-medal-winning Olympian who has been judging the leadline classes for years. 

De Leyer, who when she was a kid named her father’s Hall of Fame jumper, Snowman, teaches at the Topping Riding Club, where Addison rides, and at Wolffer Estate Stables.

One of her adult students, having borrowed this writer’s notebook for a moment, wrote in it: “Harriet is the best trainer ever,” praise that was to be borne out later that morning when de Leyer received the Long Island Sportsmanship Award from the Classic’s president, Dennis Suskind, and from its vice president, Emily Aspinall.

 They said that as the longtime president of the Long Island Professional Horsemen’s Association she had “touched the lives of countless Long Island horse people.”

“What’s a rugby player doing here?” Gordon Trotter, who had stepped out of a spectator tent, was asked. “My daughters,” he said, with a broad smile. 

The younger one, Zoey, who is 5, rides at Firefly Farm in Bridgehampton, where 20-goal polo used to be played. Her mother, Dana, who was to have begun riding in amateur-owner classes Tuesday, was getting her ready, as the Trotters’ 9-year-old daughter, Reese, a short stirrup competitor, looked on.

“It’s really fun,” Reese said, when asked about riding. “I love to hang out with the horses.” She had done little jumps, but wanted to jump the big ones some day, she added.

Zoey and Reese’s father once rode too, as a kid growing up in New Zealand, though it was more of a hands-on endeavor there — “a lot of work,” he said — than was often the case in the Hamptons.

As for jumping, which he did “long ago,” when they were first married, “it’s a thrilling experience,” he said.

By the same token, Dana was not thrilled when Zoey’s pony stepped on her. “No shoes, thank goodness.”

How long had Zoey been riding? Since before she was born? “Basically,” her mother said.

So, what were the odds on Zoey’s winning, Gordon Trotter was asked.

“Who knows?” he said, adding, with a smile, that “everyone gets a blue ribbon.”

The leadline place-winners, it was later announced, were, in the 2-to-4 class, Vivienne Van Lith of Brooklyn, with Thumbalina, Ian Luca Roman of Wellington, Fla., with Buttons & Bows, and Mariela D’Agostino of New York City, with Ledinjedon Exclusively Dun. 

And, in the 5-7 class: Isabelle Perkins of New York City, with Strawberry Smoothie, Ava Patino of Bridgehampton, with Longacre Red Rhapsody, and Olivia Levine of Bridgehampton, with Cocoa Caliente. 

Georgina Bloomberg, topping a field of 42 entries, won the day’s major event, the $30,000 Boar’s Head Open Jumper Challenge, on Paola 233, in a jump-off. Mario Deslauriers, on Cherrypop, was second, and Molly Ashe Crawley, on Picobello Choppin PC, was third.

Hemingway with Sandra Ferrell aboard won the $10,000 Marders Local Hunter Derby, and O. Edward ridden by Holly Orlando won two East Hampton Star-sponsored Local Hunter Pro sections, and Bonaparte, also ridden by Orlando, won a third.

Thursday, August 30

HAMPTON CLASSIC, featured events include $40,000 speed stake, amateur-owner, junior, and children’s jumper classes, as well as small and large junior hunter classes, the adult amateur hunter championships, and the adult amateur classic, Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, showgrounds, from 8 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, East Hampton at West Islip, mandatory nonleague, 4 p.m.

 

Friday, August 31

HAMPTON CLASSIC, featured events include $10,000 junior/amateur welcome stake, the $10,000 SHF Enterprises 7-and-under jumpers championship, the $15,000 speed derby, the $75,000 Douglas Elliman grand prix qualifier, adult-amateur, amateur-owner, and junior jumper championships, and small and large junior hunter championships, Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, showgrounds, from 8 a.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, Hampton Bays at East Hampton, scrimmage, 8:30 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Half Hollow Hills West at East Hampton, nonleague, 10 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, scrimmage, 10 a.m.

 

Saturday, September 1

HAMPTON CLASSIC, featured events include the $10,000 equitation championship, the $5,000 Carolex junior/amateur-owner jumper classic, the $70,000 Longines Cup, the $12,500 amateur-owner jumper classic, the $12,500 junior jumper classic, the $5,000 adult amateur jumper classic, the $5,000 children’s jumper classic, and the $2,500 pony hunter classic, Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, showgrounds, from 8 a.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at multi-team scrimmage, Bay Shore High School, 9 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, Bay Shore at East Hampton, mandatory nonleague, 4 p.m.

 

Sunday, September 2

HAMPTON CLASSIC, featured events include the $10,000 Hermes hunter classic, the $25,000 jumping derby, the amateur-owner and junior jumper championships, and the $300,000 Grand Prix, Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, showgrounds, from 8 a.m.

SWIMMING, East Hampton Village Ocean Rescue Squad Red Devil one-mile, half-mile, and quarter-mile ocean swims, Atlantic Avenue Beach, Amagansett, 5 p.m.

 

Monday, September 3

RUNNING, Great Bonac 10 and 5Ks, benefit Springs Fire Department scholarship fund and the Old Montauk Athletic Club, Springs Firehouse, Fort Pond Boulevard, 9 and 9:20 a.m. 

 

Tuesday, September 4

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Sayville at East Hampton, league opener, 10 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Riverhead at East Hampton, scrimmage, 4 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Hauppauge, league opener, 5 p.m.

 

Wednesday, September 5

GIRLS TENNIS, East Hampton at Southampton, league opener, 4 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Sayville at East Hampton, league opener, 4:30 p.m.

August 19, 1993

The pen again proved mightier than the palette knife Saturday as the Writers won the Artists-Writers Game for the first time in three years.

Seven homers, steady pitching, and some heads-up defense helped the Writers to their 9-6 victory. The win made it 17 for the Scribblers to 8 for the Etchers in the 25 years that the game has been played as a benefit.

. . . Howard Stringer, of CBS-TV, who was in the broadcast booth with Peter Stone, the playwright, Sherrye Henry, the radio personality, and Elaine Benson, the gallery owner, drew a laugh when he asked anyone on the field with actual skills to leave. Still, it was serious business.

. . . When the next batter lofted a fly ball to shallow left that was caught by Ken Auletta, the syndicated columnist and chronicler of greed in the political and financial worlds, Alec Baldwin took off for the plate. The Writers’ captain rifled a throw to Jay McInerney that was on the money. Baldwin dove head-first into the slim catcher’s midsection, bowling him over, but McInerney, who had made the tag, held on. “That is officially,” Stringer said, “a writer’s block.” — Jennifer Peltz

Fred’s Big Guns dispatched Tipperary Inn, the two-time defending East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball league champion, by scores of 13-4 and 13-9 in a semifinal round series this past week. 

Tipperary could have retired the Terry King Cup with a third-straight championship, but was thoroughly beaten by the younger Guns. Rob Marto, the Inn’s chief home run threat, provided a ray of hope when he tied Friday’s game at 9-9 with a grand slam home run in the sixth inning, but the Guns came back fiercely with four runs in the top of the seventh, putting the game and the series away.

. . . Marto was heard to say, as he reached home plate after his grand slam, “They ain’t nothin’.” He was wrong. The Guns are something.

 

August 26, 1993

Joe Dooley, a Civil Service trainer who has been testing lifeguards on the East End since 1959, stood in front of 50 young swimmers last Thursday at East Hampton’s Main Beach, yelling through a bullhorn. Turning to the crowd, he boomed, “Ladies and gentlemen, these are some of the finest lifeguards in the U.S.A.!”

Among them was Robin Streck, of East Hampton, one of about five women taking the grueling test.

This summer, East Hampton Town has employed more women to guard swimmers on its ocean and bay beaches than ever before. Eight young women are ocean-certified, and at least five are working at East Hampton ocean beaches.

. . . Robin, who was recertified last Thursday and is a guard at Main Beach, practiced for the test with a 220-pound friend, Tom Cooper. As it happened, she was paired in the test with a 180-pounder, whom she had to carry out of the water and up the beach several times.

. . . Over all, she said, her male colleagues have been very supportive — it’s the bathers who have given her a hard time. — Sarah Koenig

Only one team, Fred’s Big Guns, was left standing following a shootout Friday at the Terry King ball field that decided the East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball league’s final playoff series.

When the dust cleared, it was the Guns 19, Bistrian Gravel 16, a hard-earned victory that gave the Guns the championship three games to one.

. . . “Who’s better than us?” the jubilant Guns asked of each other as they received the handsome Terry King Cup from Rich Schneider. Answer: “No one!”

No one in this league, in this season, at any rate. The Guns, as was the case all summer long, simply had too much power for the opposition, even for the stiff opposition that Bistrian Gravel provided. 

Nine West’s two-hour “World of the Horse” celebration on the Hampton Classic’s opening day will feature a parade of breeds that will include an Arabian costume group, Roman and trick riders, miniature horses, Icelandic horses, Paso Finos, Bashkir Curlys, Andalusians, Lipizzaners, and Percherons.

Masters swimmers who participate in Tim Treadwell’s classes at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter and at Albert’s Landing met in a competitive meet at Bill and Dominique Kahn’s house in Georgica Close Saturday, the chief winner of which was the Lustgarten Foundation for pancreatic cancer research, which netted $8,000, twice as much as had been raised in the inaugural event last year.

Treadwell, whose mother died of the disease two years ago, made sure that there was an event for everyone — age-group masters swimming begins at 18 — including some unorthodox feet-first sculling, wet T-shirt, and river raft relays.

If there were a prize for the most frequent participant it would have gone to Dr. Charlie van der Horst of the University of North Carolina, who was to have returned to Chapel Hill the next day.

Van der Horst, as was the case with many others competing Saturday, has swum in the open water group Treadwell oversees at Albert’s Landing in Amagansett three mornings a week. “I swam 40 miles in August!” he said before taking part in the first event, the 60-to-70-year-old 200-yard freestyle.

As van der Horst executed a neat flip turn at the end of the first lap, a spectator said, “He’s very competitive.” And then, as the eventual runner-up arrived, “He’s competitive too, but not that good.”

No matter, for, as Treadwell — who assures that “there’s a lane for everyone” in his Y classes — said, “Everyone’s a winner today.”

“What we’re hoping,” said Joe Viviani, a masters swimmer and the meet’s publicist, “is that some day we’ll have a test for pancreatic cancer like the P.S.A. test for prostate cancer. As it is, when you find out you have it, that’s pretty much it.”

The spring issue of Progress & Promise, the foundation’s newsletter, which was on the check-in table, made note of the promising initial results of a CancerSEEK blood test “that can detect the presence of pancreatic cancer as part of a panel of eight common cancers.”

“We know,” said Dr. Anne Marie Lennon of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, “that in 80 to 85 percent of pancreatic cancer cases, it’s detected too late. . . . Developing a blood-screening test for pancreatic cancer has been an urgent goal.”

The encouraging results of the initial research, Kerri Kaplan, the foundation’s president and chief executive officer, said, “lays the foundation for a single blood-screening test for multiple cancers that could be offered as part of routine medical checks. . . . This test marks a significant first step toward a new era in how pancreatic cancer is diagnosed.”

When Tom Cohill, whose Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes, continues to feed into and strengthen East Hampton High’s girls and boys varsities, was asked if there weren’t some ringers there that day, he said, “Anyone with N.Y.A.C. [the New York Athletic Club] on their suits.”

One of them, Kristin Gary, identified the others, all recent college graduates, broad-shouldered and slim-waisted: Cameron Hood of the University of Pennsylvania, Brian Hogan of Yale, and Paul-Marc Schweitzer of Texas A&M.

“We swim with Bill all the time,” said Gary. “It’s great out here, and it’s such a worthwhile cause. . . . It’s unique having a fund-raiser in a 25-yard pool.”

In fact, this writer could think of none other like it, at least hereabouts.

As for swimming, Gary said, “It’s a sport that brings together people of all walks of life, people who share a passion, something bigger than themselves.”

Swimmers at their best were “in the zone,” agreed Cohill, who was reminded of the masters runner John Conner’s view that “you are your toughest competitor.”

“You forget about everything else, everything you can’t control, and focus on what you can, on executing and doing your best.”

As for his Hurricane girls, he’ll be missing Maggie Purcell, Caroline Oakland, and Isabella Swanson this season, all of them college-bound, and all “big personalities.” There were, however, “a talented group of boys and girls going into the 13-year-old group,” Cohill said.

Spencer Schneider, a long-distance swimmer who’s expected to try a Montauk-to-Block Island crossing in the coming weeks (he made it halfway there last year), was a no-show, having apparently been pressed into lifeguard duty in the absence of some fellow guards who had to go back to college. 

But Lori King, who stands at about 5 feet 2 inches and has swum around Bermuda, around Manhattan, and around Key West, and has conquered the Catalina Channel, was there.

She would do the Bermuda 10K soon, and she was wait-listed, she said, for Gibraltar. 

While in Bermuda, King said she would, armed with some fun facts supplied by Woods Hole scientists designed to pique their wonder, talk again with junior and high school students about the appeal of open water swimming. 

“I’ve told them it’s not as if you’re leaving the planet earth or anything,” she said with a smile. “All you have to do is put your face in the water.”

Thursday, September 6

FIELD HOCKEY, Port Jefferson at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, Southampton at East Hampton, nonleague, 4:30 p.m.

GOLF, East Hampton at Center Moriches, 4 p.m.

 

Friday, September 7

GIRLS TENNIS, William Floyd at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Islip, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at Connetquot, mandatory nonleague, 5 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton junior varsity at Hampton Bays, 6 p.m.

 

Saturday, September 8

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at East Islip, 10 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Babylon at East Hampton, noon.

 

Sunday, September 9

MIGHTY HAMPTONS TRIATHLON, Steve Tarpinian Memorial, Long Beach, Noyac, 1.5K swim, 40K bike, and 10K run, 6:40 a.m.

 

Wednesday, September 12

GOLF, William Floyd at East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Southampton at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Miller Place, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4 p.m.

Isabella Tarbet broke a toe on “something” in the surf the day before an ocean lifeguard test that she wanted to take this summer, but it’s all right now, as she proved in the Great Bonac 5K in Springs Monday, finishing fifth among the females in Great Bonac’s 5K.

“We’ll be competitive,” Diane O’Donnell, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls cross-country team, for which Tarbet runs, said before the Labor Day races in Springs began. “But we’re in a powerhouse league, with Shoreham-Wading River, Miller Place, Mount Sinai, and Westhampton — with county and state champions. Still, I think this is the most talented team I’ve had in a while.”

While O’Donnell will have nine on her varsity, led by Ava Engstrom, Monday’s third 5K female finisher, Kevin Barry, the boys coach, will have two score or more, and he too thinks he’s got a very good group, most of whom were in Monday’s 5K, using it as a practice run. 

“For some of them,” said Barry, “it’s their first 5K.” He added that he had nine to 10 freshmen, up from the East Hampton Middle School team that Nick Finazzo and Bill Herzog, East Hampton’s former varsity boys coach, have overseen.

The teams’ only meet at Cedar Point Park is to be Sept. 18, a Tuesday. Otherwise, they’ll be at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, and in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. 

“We’ll be going up against half of our league’s teams here,” said Barry, who plans to take his seven top runners to the Disney Classic outside Orlando, Fla., this fall. O’Donnell hopes to take all nine of her runners, though, according to Tarbet, whose goal is to go to the state meet, “we’ve got to raise more money to do so.”

The Springs Fire Department’s scholarship fund and the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s grants program for young athletes benefited from the Great Bonac 10 and 5Ks, which drew almost 200 participants — 43 in the 10K and 139 in the 5K.

The 5K’s top three were Carter Weaver, 16, of East Hampton, in 17:37.1, Omar Leon, 19, of East Hampton, in 17:53.6, and Ethan McCormac, 17, of East Hampton, in 18:50.7. McCormac is on East Hampton’s boys team, and Leon, who’s awaiting a decision by Section XI, may be. 

Other members of Barry’s team, both freshmen, Aidan Kalman, 14, of East Hampton, and Evan Masi, also 14, of Amagansett, placed fifth and sixth, in 19:37.4 and 19:47.6. Ryan Fowkes, Barry’s top runner, was absent inasmuch as he was on lifeguard duty that day.

Barbara Gubbins, the 10K’s top female, said she had trouble breathing in the first mile owing to the high humidity. “I saw the U.S. Open last night, and they were saying that some players did well in high humidity and that others did not. I’m one of those who does not,” she said. Her time, 44:30.2, was about two minutes slower than last year, she added.

Michael Anderson won the 10K, in 39:11. Steve Cuomo, whose father, Steve Sr., of Shirley, oversees the Rolling Thunder Running Club made up of competitors who are challenged in various ways, was second, a little more than a minute behind.

Seventeen Rolling Thunder members came out for the race, continuing a tradition that began with an invitation from the Great Bonac 10K’s former race director, Howard Lebwith, years ago.

Tyler Gulluscio was the third-place finisher in the 10K, in 40:40. He was followed by the executive director of the East Hampton Library, Dennis Fabiszak, in 41:44.8.

Gubbins, who owns the Gubbins Running Ahead stores in East Hampton and Southampton, was sixth over all. Craig Brierley, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls and boys swimming teams, was seventh, in 46:23.5, Beth Feit was ninth, in 47:10.8, and Caroline Cashin, who runs Truth Training with her husband, Ed, was 11th, in 48:04.4.

It should not go without saying that Harriet Oster, 76, of Amagansett, was 68th in the 5K, in 29:33.6.

Rose Hayes, 14, was the first female in the 5K, in 20:37. Unfortunately for East Hampton, she lives in East Moriches, and tennis, not cross-country, is her fall sport. Although a freshman, she is playing number-one on Westhampton Beach’s team. Her mother, Maria, said her daughter was all-state in tennis in her seventh and eighth-grade years at Mercy High School in Riverhead.

Patricia Salamy, 51, of Springs, was the second female finisher in the 5K, in 20:54.3. Ava Engstrom, 15, Tarbet’s teammate and younger sister of Erik Engstrom, a county champion when he was at East Hampton who is running at the University of Massachusetts now, was third, in 21:37.9.

Craig Brierley said before departing for lifeguard duty in Montauk that his girls swimming team would be competitive this fall, though how competitive he couldn’t say at the moment. The team was to have practiced Tuesday, yesterday, and today at the Maidstone Club, and is to have its first meet, at Connetquot, tomorrow. Oona Foulser and Emma Wiltshire are the only seniors.

Michel Vaillancourt, who designed Sunday’s Grand Prix course, one that he thought was “tough, but not super tough,” predicted during the walkthrough that the 34 horse and rider combinations would have trouble at the next to last fence, owing to the fact that after having pushed their mounts through an in-and-out preceding it they’d have little time to collect themselves for the penultimate one.

And that turned out to be true, for 14 competitors had rails down at that 12th fence, an oxer in front of the row of spectator chalets. But it was the triple — two verticals leading into an oxer — fronting the V.I.P. tent that proved to be the chief bugaboo, with 23 rails down there, 11 of them at the oxer leading out of it.

Only five riders of the 34 — Mario Deslauriers, McLain Ward, Lindsay Douglass, Lucy Davis, and Shane Sweetnam — scaled the 5-foot-2-inch fences cleanly, advancing them to a timed jump-off. Georgina Bloomberg, on Chameur 137, came close, with a rail down at the final jump, the Longines fence, as the crowd sighed. 

A crowd favorite, Bloomberg was applauded on entering the ring, and was applauded even more loudly after leaning over and giving her 10-year-old Westfalen bay gelding some reassuring pats lest he take it too hard.

Ward, 42, who has been at the top of the show-jumping world since the age of 14, emerged as the winner in the eight-obstacle timed jump-off, earning him his seventh Grand Prix title — worth $99,000 this year — more than twice the number of wins, the show’s publicist, Marty Bauman said, than any other rider in Classic Grand Prix history. He has long since left the show’s three-time winners, Rodney Jenkins and Margie Goldstein-Engle, in the dust. 

And he did it in classic Ward style, taking a risk that his four competitors were to eschew, as he and HH Gigi’s Girl, a 10-year-old gray mare he’s had for a little more than a year, made a hard right-hand turn slanting toward the Jaguar fence, the jump-off’s next-to-last one, thus cutting precious time off the clock.

Ward and Gigi’s Girl were the second to go, behind Deslauriers and Bardolina 2, who had gone clean, but with 

Douglass, Davis, and Sweetnam, who had won numerous big classes heading into the Grand Prix, coming after them, and knowing Gigi’s Girl was brave, proved persuasive.

Douglass and Butterfly Tibri Z had two rails down. Davis and Caracho 14 and Sweetnam and Main Road went clean, with the latter pair finishing second, about two seconds behind Ward and Gigi’s Girl. Davis and Caracho 14 were third, about three and a half seconds behind the winners.

At a press conference afterward, Ward said that while Gigi’s Girl, who had come to him from South America, had been greener than he’d thought, she had shown with her recent results that she’d turned the corner.

Vaillancourt, when asked if he was somewhat surprised by the trouble his triple had caused, said he’d tried to make it both aesthetically pleasing and reasonably challenging, which was why, rather than have two spreads (oxers) and a vertical, he’d gone with two verticals and one oxer.

It was a particularly good week for Sweetnam, who will represent Ireland in the F.E.I. World Equestrian Games in Tryon, N.C., later this month, inasmuch as he copped the Grand Prix runner-up’s $60,000 prize and the Longines $30,000 rider-of-the-week award, not to mention winning the $75,000 Douglas Elliman Grand Prix qualifier, netting him $24,750, Friday (about $10,000 of which went to the Group for the East End), and the $70,000 Longines Cup Saturday, whose first-place prize was $23,000.

Four of the riders who will represent the United States in the World Equestrian Games — Ward, Devin Ryan, Adrienne Sternlicht, and Beezie Madden (an alternate) — were at the Classic this past week. Ward, Ryan, and Madden were in the Grand Prix.

Daniel Bluman, last year’s Grand Prix winner, will represent Israel in the Games. He rode Bacara D’Archonfosse, an 11-year-old Belgian warmblood mare, in Sunday’s main event, though they didn’t clear the water jump and, as was the case with so many others, knocked down a rail at the next-to-last fence.

In other featured events this past week, Leslie Burr-Howard, on Donna Speciale, won the $40,000 Sovaro Speed Stake; Bloomberg, on Paola 233, won the $30,000 Boar’s Head Open Jumper Challenge; Taylor St. Jacques, 19, rode Qantor Des Etisses to victory in the $25,000 DAWTS Show Jumping Derby for junior and amateur riders, and Sloan Hopson, on Costa Rica Vh Waterschoot Z, won the $15,000 Carolex junior/amateur-owner jumper classic. 

Samantha Wight, on Edison, won the $12,500 amateur-owner jumper classic; Gracie Allen, on Rivage de Lormay, won the $12,500 junior jumper classic; Mimi Gochman won the $10,000 equitation championship; Molly Ashe-Cawley, on Cassandra, won the $10,000 Palm Beach Masters open jumper class, and Erynn Ballard, on Maestro Vica V/D Ark, swept through three $10,000 classes to top the 7-and-under young horse jumper division.

Of the local barns, Swan Creek reported that Clint One, ridden by Lucy Beeton, a Pierson High School sophomore, won the 15-to-17-year-old children’s hunter classic, that Caroline Jungck, also of Sag Harbor, won the large children’s pony classic aboard Phoebe Topping’s pony, Rumple Minze, and that Chinou, ridden by Emma Siskind, was the local junior hunter champion. Clint One, ridden by Beeton, was that division’s reserve champion.

Several of East Hampton High’s fall sports teams saw action in the past week.

The girls tennis team, coached by Kevin McConville, the head pro at Hampton Racquet, defeated West Islip 6-1 in a mandatory nonleague match with everyone playing 10-game pro sets.

The sole loss, by 10-6, came at first doubles. Otherwise, Rebecca Kuperschmid, Juliana Barahona, Cateline Micallif, and Katie Funicelli, and the doubles teams of Olivia Baris and Kaylee Mendelman and Ciara Bedini and Eva Wojtusiak were winners. 

The boys soccer team, coached by Don McGovern, lost 2-0 to Half Hollow Hills West, a fellow Class A school, in a nonleaguer played here Friday morning.

“Match their physicality and your skill will take over,” McGovern told his team during the halftime break, by which time the Bonackers trailed 1-0 because of a successful free kick that followed upon a failed clearing attempt and a foul, the ball being backheaded, or “flicked,” into the nets over the goalie Kurt Matthews’s outstretched arms near the end of the period.

East Hampton went against the wind in the first half, and went with it in the second, though the presumed advantage didn’t pan out. 

Alex Pantosin, a senior midfielder, hit a hard, ground-hugging shot that was saved in the early going, though the momentum was not to turn inasmuch as Hills West’s bigger players were also the more aggressive ones that day.

The visitors had half-a-dozen set plays, either corner kicks or free kicks — the latter taken by Hills West’s goalie — in the second half, though Matthews foiled all of them. He was beaten, though, by the visitors’ Marcus Fraser, a hard-working forward, in the 70th minute, the low partly screened 15-yard shot coming to rest in the left corner of the cage.

East Hampton got off a few shots on goal during the course of the game, but the visitors’ four defenders were tenacious, and their goalie was not really tested.

“They disrupted everything,” McGovern said afterward. “We just didn’t match up physically. But I’m very optimistic regarding the season. I thought our backs played well, but we’re young in the midfield — you can see that.”

He’s carrying 28 on the roster — 11 seniors, 12 juniors, four sophomores, and a freshman, Hedrys Palencia, a forward and the tallest player on the team — but only has several starters from last year returning.

Hills West, he said, was in League IV. East Hampton is in League V. East Hampton’s league-opener is to be here tomorrow with Sayville, presumably another physical team that pretty much eschews short passes in favor of long ones and set plays.

Kevin Barry has the largest boys cross-country team he’s ever had, with 25 to 28 on the roster, including Ryan Fowkes, who’s heading into his senior year and hopes to continue running in college. Diane O’Donnell has far fewer on the girls team, nine to be specific, but, nevertheless, expects the team to be the most competitive one she’s had in a while. 

Craig Brierley, the girls swimming coach, will have a young team, with only two seniors, Oona Foulser and Emma Wiltshire, but given the continued success of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes, it ought to be good again. There are 25 on his roster, including four eighth graders — Alyssa Brabant, Margaret Breen, Jane Brierley, and Camryn Hatch — and three ninth graders — Julia Caldwell, Corrina Castillo, and Emily Dyner.

Women were prominent in competitions here this past week. Caroline Cashin, for the second year in a row, outdid everyone in the Pump ’N’ Run, her 133 bench press reps sending her off on the 1.7-mile beach run three minutes and nine seconds ahead of her nearest competitor. Paige Duca, a Boston College all-American and all-A.C.C. miler, her best being a 4:37, topped some 500 female registrants in placing fourth in Sunday’s Ellen’s Run, in 17 minutes and 18 seconds. And Maggie Purcell, heading for the University of Richmond, where she will swim, won among the milers in Saturday morning’s Fighting Chance distance swims in Sag Harbor.

Not to say that males didn’t fare well too, Erik Engstrom in particular, who set a record as Ellen’s overall winner, in 15:39.97. That’s no mean feat considering that Troy Taylor, a former Gubbins Running Ahead employee, and a 4:02 miler, crossed the line in 15:40.96 last year, paring 14 seconds from the previous record, set by another former Gubbins employee, Nick Lemon, in 2015.

The last time out, at Jordan’s Run in Sag Harbor, Duca, a Montauk summer resident who will captain B.C.’s women’s cross-country team this fall, and who, like Engstrom, competes in the steeplechase, failed to make a U-turn at the end of the Jordan C. Haerter Memorial Bridge, resulting in an 18th-place finish. This time, she stayed on course, cracking the top five, behind Engstrom, Dylan Fine, and Carter Weaver.

The women’s top 10 at Ellen’s, whose proceeds help fund cancer prevention, treatment, and post-operative services on the South Fork, included Tara Farrell, Barbara Gubbins, Megan Gubbins, and Erik’s younger sister, Ava Engstrom. Barbara Gubbins’s time of 20:07.55, which works out to a 6:33-per-mile pace, was of particular note given that she is 58.

Used to running a half-marathon at a 7-minute-per-mile pace, it showed the track work she’s been doing lately with Farrell at Southampton High has been productive, said the elder Gubbins, who is in the 89th percentile when she’s “age-graded,” i.e., when her times are compared to the best possible ones for women her age.

Farrell, Barbara Gubbins, and Megan Gubbins, who lives in Brooklyn and comes out on weekends, have formed a formidable trio in recent road races, always finishing in the money, as it were. Geary Gubbins, Megan’s brother, and Geronimo, her Portuguese water dog, have been their chief cheerleaders. Geronimo was the first dog over the line in the 2015 Turkey Trot in Montauk, after which he went into a self-imposed retirement. “The pressure’s been too much,” Geary said. Megan Gubbins said, though not ruefully, that her mother “still beats me.”

There were 812 registrants — pretty much the same number as last year — and 665 finishers. The cool, overcast day was perfect for running, Dr. Julie Ratner, the race’s founder, said. 

Debbie Merrick, 47, of New Providence, N.J., repeated as the top breast cancer survivor to finish, for which she received a Tiffany sterling silver heart necklace with sapphires. She was 34th over all. Another breast cancer survivor, Debbie Donohue, an East Hampton librarian, was the first female in the 65-69 division.

Other female division winners were Ava Engstrom, 12-15; Farrell, 35-39; Laura Brown, 50-54; Gubbins, 55-59, and Susie Roden, also a breast cancer survivor, 60-64.

Male division winners included Eng-strom, 20-24; Jason Hancock, 40-44; Arthur Nealon, 70-74, and Robert Goldfarb, who’s 88, 80-plus. Tony Venesina, 76, who was one of the South Fork’s top distance runners some time ago, placed fourth in the 75-79 division, and Perry Gershon, 56, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the First District, was second in the 55-59 division.

The Stony Brook Southampton Hospital team, numbering around 25, was the day’s largest, meriting a prize. Two tickets on the floor to Billy Joel’s Madison Square Garden concert tonight and four tickets to Meredith O’Connor’s Arts Against Bullying Gala concert in Philadelphia next month were awarded to silent auction bidders. 

O’Connor, who Ratner said “has a huge following among teens,” came to the race. “She’s a terrific, caring, wonderful young woman,” she added.

Ratner began this race, and the Ellen P. Hermanson Foundation, 23 years ago in memory of her sister, an advocate for those with breast cancer who died as a result of the disease. Ellen’s daughter, Leora Moreno, an assistant public defender in Charlotte, N.C., said after the race that she’s been a participant “since the age of 6, the same year my Mom died. . . . It’s been amazing to have watched this run become such a celebratory event, and to have watched it grow into what it is today. Seeing my Mom’s name over Southampton Hospital’s Breast Center makes me feel incredibly proud of what the foundation has accomplished.”

Fighting Chance Swims

The swims for Fighting Chance, a nonprofit organization in Sag Harbor that offers free counseling and services to families affected by cancer, did not draw as well as they have in the past, owing, apparently, to several factors, Saturday’s iffy weather being one. Jim Arnold of the East Hampton Village Ocean Rescue Squad had tried to obtain permission from Southampton Town to hold the swims at Long Beach in Noyac, but could not, and so settled again on Sag Harbor’s Havens Beach. The ripple-less water couldn’t have been more inviting. It was like swimming in a pool, everyone agreed. 

As aforesaid, Purcell, a Southampton Town lifeguard at Cooper’s Beach, was the one-mile winner, followed by a fellow lifeguard, and East Hampton Y.M.C.A.-RECenter Hurricane teammate, Caroline Brown, who’s going to Syracuse this fall. Purcell will swim the 100 breaststroke at Richmond. They were joined by another Hurricane, Summer Jones, an eighth grader, in the one-miler. Craig Brierley, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls swim team, which is expected to be strong again this season, had given her the green light to join the varsity, but, her mother, Anne, said, her daughter, who swims the 50 freestyle and the 100 butterfly, had decided to wait until she’s a ninth grader.

 Didric C. Ceder Holm, a 40-year-old native of Sweden and father of four who summers in Bridgehampton, won the 2-miler. “It is beautiful and well organized,” he said on exiting the water, arms raised. He also liked it, he said, that the route, marked by buoys, was straight out to Barcelona Neck and back. Ely Dickson, 14, who is in East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard program, won the half-miler. Soon after, he was on the way out to the Rell Sunn surf contest in Montauk. Of the two sports, the young Californian said he liked swimming better.

Rich Kalbacher, who served as the swims’ M.C., said that the Ocean Rescue Squad’s Red Devil swims, a fund-raiser for the volunteer organization, which numbers 68 at the moment, will be held at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Sept. 2 at 5 p.m.

“With a donation of $2,000 you can pick out the lifeguard of your choice and swim with him or her the whole way,” he said. The Red Devil distances are to be one mile, a half-mile, and a quarter-mile. “We want families to come out,” said Kalbacher, “little ones, moms, dads . . . we want it to be a family event.”

Pump ’N’ Run

As for the Pump ’N’ Run, held at Atlantic Avenue on Aug. 15, it was the second year in a row that Caroline Cashin, who combines three strength workouts and three running workouts per week, won it. Until last year, no female had won the 16-year-old bench-press-beach-run event, which requires that women lift 35 percent (40 pounds in Cashin’s case) of their weight and men 60 percent of theirs, each rep resulting in a three-second credit on the run to and from Indian Wells Beach, about 1.7 miles all told. 

This year, runners were sent out in order, based on their time credits. Cashin, who had 133 reps, consequently was the first to go out, three minutes and nine seconds ahead of the runner-up, Alyssa Bahel, a Denison University student whose father, Mike, Body Tech’s owner, oversees the competition.

“We used to have a mass start on the run” and the time credits were figured in afterward, “but it’s better this way,” said Cashin. “You get to see who you have to chase down. The first to cross the line wins.”

Besides Cashin and Bahel, who did 70 reps, Geo Espinoza, Mike Bahel, Ryan Fowkes, Omar Leon, Thomas Brierley, Matthew Maya, Christina Winters, and Paul Hamilton rounded out the top 10.

The proceeds will help fund the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s scholarships and its youth athletic programs, Jennifer Fowkes said.

Cashin, who has three children and is training for the New York marathon in November along with Sinead FitzGibbon, Holly Li, Beth Feit, and Sue De Lara, said with a sly grin on Monday morning, that “women are taking over.”

Nine Sag Harbor sailing crews participated in this year’s Antigua and Barbuda Hamptons Challenge sailing regatta on Aug. 18, with the Breakwater Yacht Club boat Seventh Heaven, captained by Greg and Jennifer Ames, coming in second place. Osprey, another boat from Sag Harbor and captained by George Martin, finished third.

The crew of the winning boat, August Sky, captained by Phil Walters, won a free trip to Antigua for the 2019 Antigua Race Week in April, courtesy of the government of Antigua and Barbuda. August Sky races out of the Lloyd Harbor and Centerport Yacht Clubs.

The race was held in Noyac Bay. There were 24 boats in three divisions.

Following the nearly two-hour race was an award ceremony and party at Havens Beach in Sag Harbor, where the Honorable H. Charles Fernandez, the Antiguan minister of tourism and development, announced the regatta’s winners. The event included a fundraiser for i-tri, a local charity that works to empower young girls and women through triathlon training.

There also was a moment of silence for the late Rob Roden, who organized the regatta each year. Mr. Roden, 70, died on Aug. 11 of cancer.

2018 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA HAMPTONS CHALLENGE REGATTA RESULTS

OVERALL

SKIPPER

Boat

Club

1

Philip Walters

August Sky

Lloyd Harbor/Centerport

2

Greg and Jennifer Ames

Seventh Heaven

Breakwater 

3

George Martin

Osprey

Sag Harbor/Breakwater

4

William Coster

Silent Passage

Peconic Bay Sailing Association

5

Andrew Ward

Bravo

Shelter Island YC/NYYC

6

Peter Carroll

Firefly

Peconic Bay Sailing Association

7

WIlliam Rogers

Big Boat

Breakwater Yacht Club

8

James Sanders

Team Tonic

Ocean Yacht Club

9

Bob Voelkel

Shamrock

Peconic Bay Sailing Association

10

Peter Kreiling

Yawateg

Peconic Bay Sailing Association

11

Jody LoCascio

Boogie Van

Breakwater Yacht Club

12

Beth Fleisher

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Peconic Bay Sailing Association & Southold Yacht Club

13T

Daniel Montero

Gracious

Breakwater Yacht Club

14T

Louis Grignon

Street Fighter

Sag Harbor Yacht Club

15

Daniel Whelan

Angel Under the Moon

Breakwater Yacht Club

16

Blake Marriner

MilfordSailingFoundation.org

Windjammers Sailing Club

17

Steve & Liam Kenny

Gossip

Breakwater Yacht Club

18

Dan Corcoran

Strider

Loyd Harbor Yacht Club

19

Lee Oldak

Purple Haze

Breakwater Yacht Club

20

Greg Cukor

Corossol

Peconic Bay Sailing Association 

21

Paul Kreiling

Zoop!

Peconic Bay Sailing Association

22

Adam Sandberg

Embla

Manhattan Yacht Club

23

John Breuer

Tangled Up in Blue

Wet Pants Sailing Assocation

24

Tom Wacker

Trading Places

Old Cove Yacht Club