Diane Randolph is proud of her girls!

Hannah Stephens, riding Hidden Springs Skittles, qualified for Pony Finals in the green medium division this past weekend at Carolina Horse Park in Raeford, N.C. She will be joining Marisa Tetreault and Hidden Springs Jasmine at the Kentucky Horse Park for the National Pony Finals. A Big Congrats to you girls!!!

Harmon Classics in September

Hello all -
The September Fall Festival at FENCE has been canceled. Lewis Pack will be taking that date and doing a show at Harmon Field called the "September Spectacular" September 12-14. There will be a $500 Hunt Teams class at the show and the winning team will get a free entry into the Hunt Teams at the Classic. This show will benefit the PACT Conservany program and they will be offering a silent auction to raise funds for them. That auction will also include a free ride in the Scott Hofstetter clinic that will be on Sunday the 14th. Scott Hofstetter will be judging as well and staying to do a clinic. People can email Lewis at harmonclassics@aol.com for more information. Scott will be doing 3 sessions on that Sunday, but if there is a enough interest Lewis will see if he can stay over for Monday as well. The Clinic will be $125 with a $25 audit fee. Anyone that participates in the clinic will get 2 free audits for anyone with them.
See you at the shows - BRHJA

!!!SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR THE REST OF 2008!!!

Please visit the schedule pages for both BRHJA and Harmon Hopefuls to see some schedule modifications for the remainder of the year.
http://www.brhja.com/ShowSchedule.htm
http://www.farmhousetack.com/Hopefuls/HopefulsSchedule.htm

The FENCE Fall Classic that was scheduled for September 12-14 has been cancelled by FENCE.

Harmon Classics show originally scheduled for September 17-19 has been moved to September 12-14, and will still be held at Harmon Field.

The Harmon Hopeful show originally scheduled for September 13 is now scheduled for September 20th.

Two new Harmon Hopefuls shows have been added to the schedule, July 12th and August 16th. These two additions are special, as the proceeds will be donated to the St. Luke's Hospital Orthopedic Department, so we hope you will turn out in droves to these ones!

Mark

Clemson Equestrian Team has a very successful year!

We missed Katie Maxwell of Sovan Hill Enterprises at this year’s Mother’s Day Show! She is a big supporter of this show and its efforts! She brought 18 horses last year to the show so her presence was missed this year! She had a very good excuse for not being there though – she was coaching the Clemson Equestrian Riding Team in Califorinia!!! Katie is the coach of the Clemson Riding Team and is very proud of the team. The Clemson Equestrian Team competed at the IHSA (Intercollegiate Horse Show Association) Nationals May 8-10. Clemson had three individual riders compete in the three highest divisions at Nationals. All three finished in the Top Ten including an 8th place in the prestigious Cacchione Cup and a win in Open Over Fences. The win makes the Clemson Equestrian Team National Champions in the Open Over Fences Division. The three individuals competing for the team were Ashley Phillips in Intermediate; Charlotte Powers in the Cacchione Cup and Sarah Spainhour in Open. A team competes at regular season shows. Team members who earn enough points to qualify for a try to get to nationals first compete in the Regionals. At the Regionals, the rider must place among the top three riders in the region in their division. Then, they move on to the Zone competition. The top three riders from each region in the zone compete for the top two placings. If a rider is first or second in their division competing against the top riders in the zone, they go to nationals. Just getting to the national competition is difficult. The top ten riders in each division at the Nationals are recognized. The Cacchione Cup is a competition for the high point open rider of each region. There are 30 regions in the country. The class is run like the USEF Medal finals and is, in fact, recognized by the USEF. Clemson had the high point open rider in the region and represented Region II Zone V in the Cup. There are 24 members on the hunt seat show team and approximately 38 on the team all together. The kids raise their own money for lessons and to support the horses. The team's mean GPA is far above average. Most of the team members are high achievers in school (going on to vet school, med school, etc..). Also, one of our fundraisers this year is helping to put on a George Morris clinic at Garrison Arena (on campus) this winter right after GM returns from being the chef d'equipe at the Olympics.
Congratulations Katie and the Clemson Riding Team on a very busy and successful year!

photo 1 - Jumping - Charlotte Powers

photo 2 - Sara Spainhour thanking her partner

This Weekend's Mother's Day Show

Mother Nature did not shine on us on Sunday for the Mother's Day Horse Show, but Saturday was just about perfect! Thank you all for coming and supporting this wonderful show! We will let you all know the total amount that is donated to the St. Lukes Mamography Department as soon as we know the totals. The dinner Saturday night was so delicious and it was the biggest crowd at Harmon Field that we have ever had! There were over 350 people for dinner and we had 18 entries in the Mini Prix. It was definately the biggest event we have ever served! We want everyone to know that the board has made the Spencer ring our next priority! We will be resurfacing that ring to make it as good as our wonderful TR&HC Ring! We also want to thank everyone for complying with the trailer parking requests! It sure makes our small field much easier to get around! We are bound to have wonderful weather for the August Show!
Thank you for all of your support!
BRHJA Board of Directors


Update from Noreen on the show:
Thanks for asking all of this and thank you all for coming and supporting our show!
The dinner was for a state of the art digital mammography machine. St. Luke’s Hospital needed about $30,000.00 more for this purchase and sponsorships for the party and the show totaled $11,000.00! so we are on our way to the purchase of this great machine! BRHJA dedicates our efforts to all equestrian mothers. We served over 350 dinners and many more were on the show grounds that did not eat. Sponsors for the event were Verizon for $5000.00, Bank of America and Bill and Roberta Ratterree for $1,000.00, Hendersonville Radiological for $2500.00, Clover Gallery, Maude Carr and an anonymous donor totaled the above amount.
The riders love the large crowds, and the Vick Russell and Lincoln Russell barns were huge supporters bringing many horses to compete. Dinner was “design your own” fajitas and ice cream Sundays- ice cream scoopers were Sally Frick, Ashley Goodlet, Noreen Cothran and lots of other hands who saw that we needed a break! (Tom Furman was the man who rescued Ashley from the rock hard Ice Cream - THANKS!) St Luke’s Foundation members that helped to get this fundraiser together were Carol Jackson and Carol Meske and were on the showgrounds to give awards out. It was a night to remember! I also want to thank Terry Neves for the beautiful flowers that she donated to us for the mother's day leadline class. That class did not go due to the rain, but we ended up selling the flowers at the end of the show and all of those proceeds as well will go the the St. Lukes mammography department. Thank you Terry!

My Friend Sally

Sally Frick is such a nice person and such a great friend! She and I got to be very good friends on the BRHJA board and sharing an office at the Spartanburg Day School. She is off the board this year, but as a breast cancer survior this show is very near and dear to heart. It was her idea to do the Mother's Day Benefit Show last year to benefit the Spartanburg Regional Gibbs Cancer Center Breast Health Program. She made that show happen! She had the contacts at Regional, and I was her helper! She had so much enthusiasm and energy for that show and it was truly special! The Mother's Day Leadline was a hit and so much fun! We ended up donating $8000 to the Gibbs Cancer Center with the help of the Verizon sponsorship! We hope to up that figure and give even more to our local hospital St. Luke's Mammography Department! Anyway - Sally said she would help me decorate for this show even though she is off the board. She bought all of the decorations, plants, and ordered the lapel pins! I did nothing! She and I met at Harmon Field yesterday and decorated up the place in a pink explosion in honor of Mother's Day. We worked for 3 hours and then had a wonderful lunch out in Tryon! It was such a pleasure to be doing it with Sally! She is fun, positive, and a doer! I love doers! So when you see the decorations and you see Sally - tell her how good they look! She also is bringing a huge crowd from her barn, Motlow Creek Equestrian Center, to support this show!
Thanks Sally for your time and effort!!!
Ashley

photo with flute - by Mark Lehner - http://www.hoofclix.com/

photo with hat - by Erik Olsen - http://www.erikolsenphotography.com/