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!
3 comments:
The Brhja is special and different from most horse show organizations. The goals are to provide a competitive, yet user freindly show. It is a 10 out of a 10 in terms of what it has to offer and should serve as a prototype for other non-profit horse show organizations. The USEF has become so unreasonably expensive and completely non-user friendly. For your horse show dollars, you simply cannot miss with the BRHJA. Many thanks to the board (all volunteer) and Lewis Pack and his employees for going above and beyond to make Harmon field the first choice for horse showing.
Our farm had a great time horse showing at Harmon Field. We asked friends to come down from Charlotte with their horses and they were astonished that we had such a beautiful facility hidden in the foothills. Thanks Blue Ridge Board and all of the members.
I think BRHJA did an outstanding job once again for a great mother's day celebration.
Thank you!!!
Erik Olsen
864-990-1217
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