Singapore’s Caroline Chew Earns Omaha World Cup Start on Tribiani
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WELLINGTON, Florida, Mar. 6, 2023–Caroline Chew of Singapore is going to the World Cup Final in Omaha next month on her Olympic mount Tribiani, the rider’s first appearance at the annual global championship.
The history-making Caroline, 30 years-old and based in Britain, qualified as a non-league rider based on results at London’s Excel show in December and at Wellington’s Global Dressage Festival where she is competing this winter for the first time. She is in Wellington with her trainer, Matt Frost.
The partnership of Caroline on the 19-year-old Norwegian Warmblood gelding over the past nine years has created some “firsts:” the first Singapore equestrian at the Olympics, at Tokyo, as well as competing at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, the world championships in Herning, Denmark last year as well as the Youth Olympics as a jumper on Gatineau in 2010, and at five Asian Games in dressage. Omaha will more than complete the lineup of championships she can compete in.
She also debuted at Wellington Blue Hors Zatchmo, the 14-year-old Oldenburg stallion that, coincidentally, was ridden by Blue Hors’s Agnete Kirk Thinggaard of Denmark on Global’s 2020 winter circuit.
Caroline has relished the Wellington experience from her first show which was on Zatchmo for runner-up in a CDI3* Grand Prix.
“There was no better place than here,” to start building the partnership with Zatchmo, she explained, with many shows over three months.
With no championships to aim for this year–the Asians are at Small Tour–Caroline can take her time developing Zachmo with the Olympics in Paris as the next opportunity.
Even though she is in the U.S. to compete, as an antitrust and competition lawyer focused on big tech she has been flying to the Washington office of her multinational firm to pursue cases.
“I enjoy doing it,” she said, “it can get pretty busy… I love it.”
Caroline planned to stay for the season to the end of March that instead of flying back to England with Tribiani will extend to Omaha April 4-8.
