Last week the Moore County Hounds, our local hunt, held its annual Hunter Pace. The Hunter Pace is basically just a fun filled day of cross country riding--about 10 miles--and there are three classes--Fast--which ivolves jumping all jumps and is timed, Medium--a slower pace and you can choose to go over jumps or not--and short--a course of about 6 miles more for novice riders. The day was beautiful--about 54 degrees and sunny.
I could not help but notice how may volunteers it takes to put on something like this. We had over 300 horses entered from across the Carolinas. By my estimate it took over 40 people volunteering thier time to pull this off. First, the courses need to be laid out and flagged. Then the registrations have to be processed, starting times assinged, caterers for the lunch hired and paid, the starting gate timers and finishline timers set up and ready, servers for the lunch have to be ready, and trophys bought and presented. It is quite an undertaking, all done by umpaid volunteers for the good of the whole. The money that is raised is used to care for our pack of hounds and improve the fencing etc. in our hunt territory. Without community spirit and caring people this would ot be possible, and my hats are off to all who so graciously contribute thier time and effort to all community events.
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