Lexington, Va. – June 7, 2016 – The historic Roanoke Valley Horse Show has found a new home in the Virginia Horse Center, and is excited for this year’s competition held from June 20-25, 2016. Highlight events during the multi-discipline event for exhibitors and spectators will include the highly anticipated $25,000 Grand Prix of Roanoke on Saturday June 25, and the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby presented by Chatham Hall on Friday June 24.
“We’re excited to be moving to the Virginia Horse Center because it gives us the ability to offer more classes, and it also helps our great staff of volunteers in not having to actually build a venue as we did at our previous location,” said Roanoke Valley Horse Show chairperson Stacey Wright.
“A new addition this year will be all day barrel racing on Monday with $2500 added prize money instead of an invitational, as it has been in the past,” Wright explained. “We are hopeful that our move to the Virginia Horse Center will allow us to grow some of our other classes in the future such as our Arabian division, our Racking Horse division, our Saddlebred/Hackney/Roadster division as well as our Quarter Horse and Hunter/Jumper divisions.”
The Roanoke Valley Horse Show is a nonprofit organization and event, and the funds raised from the annual horse show are donated to health and human service organizations in the region. While the horse show will be moving outside of the area, the event will continue to benefit the Roanoke Valley and to uphold the show’s longstanding traditions of southern hospitality.
“We are really looking forward to moving to the Virginia Horse Center and feel that it will be a great improvement in safety for our horses and our exhibitors as well,” Wright said. “It will allow us to grow our profits so we can contribute back to the charitable organizations that we support such as the Bradley Free Clinic 4-H and the Virginia Maryland Equine Program at Virginia Tech. It’s still the same great horse show, just in a new location. We are there for the benefit of the charities in the Roanoke Valley and that’s where our profits go, back to the Roanoke Valley,” Wright emphasized.
The horse show is an all-breed horse show offering Arabian, Hackney, hunter, jumper, racking, roadster, Saddlebred and western divisions. To learn more about the Roanoke Valley Horse Show and supporting the event in 2016, visit www.roanokevalleyhorseshow.com.
For more information about the Virginia Horse Center, visit www.horsecenter.org.
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