IF YOU HAVE A MEMBER STORY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE, PLEASE SEND IT TO US!\u00a0 WE’LL BE GLAD TO ADD IT TO THE ONES BELOW.\u00a0 PLEASE ENJOY THESE STORIES FROM OUR MEMBERS!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Gerald Pack<\/strong>, longtime Tryon area horseman.\u00a0 \u201cShowing at Tryon\u2019s Annual Horse Show at Harmon Field wasconsidered as highly prestigious.\u00a0 It moved to the nearby FENCE that offered more stabling and competition rings in 1989, and most recently to the Tryon International Equestrian Center.\u00a0 Tryon has always had a little magic in the air: \u201cFor me it has such a history – from being a Cherokee Indian village to a great powerful equestrian community.\u201d<\/p>\n Angie Millon<\/strong>, horse woman, TR&HC Board member.\u00a0 \u201cWe continue to blend our heritage with our future at the nearly week \u2013 long horse show now held in the same way as places like Devon and Wellington are today.\u201d<\/p>\n Caroline Clark<\/strong>,\u00a0 Showing at Harmon Field had such a feeling of nostalgia. The classic hunter ring with hedges surrounding and the box seats. I also loved the way some of the stabling was under the trees.\u201d<\/p>\n Laura Kraut<\/strong>, \u00a0Show jumping competitor and Olympic champion.\u00a0 \u201cThose shows at Harmon Field have so many wonderful memories for me. I remember you Sally Kay with \u2018Motorboat,\u2019 and \u2018Bear Hug,\u2019 Jeffery Welles with \u2018Understudy,\u2019 Molly and Neil Ashe with \u2018Farnley Solo\u2019 and \u2018Frito Bandito.\u2019 The trainers back then were Carol Kent, Sarah Floyd, Eleanor Welles and Sue Ashe, respectively. \u201cWe would show in the hedge ring and then ride our ponies bareback down into the creek behind the barns afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n Jen Barker<\/strong>. \u201cGrowing up, Harmon Field was one of my favorite places to go,\u201d agrees. \u201cThere were fewer venues then, so all of my friends and lots of my family [Parker Haynes Minchin, John T. Barker and the late Val Haynes would be showing there at the same time. Every moment we weren\u2019t competing, my friends and I were trying to sneak our ponies out to ride them bareback in the creek! Even though a lot has changed over the past 30 years or so, showing at Harmon Field still feels like going home.\u201d<\/p>\n Betty Oare<\/strong>, Tryon resident and legendary horsewoman.\u00a0 \u201cWhen we were in school, I would be so excited because we had a half day holiday for the Tryon Horse Show.\u00a0 It would occur on a Wednesday in April. I would be so ready to go watch my Dad ride. All of the stores and schools in Tryon would close at 12 noon. Everyone in the community enjoyed coming out to watch the elegant riders and lovely horses as well as feast on delicious barbeque.\u00a0 Harmon Field\u2019s lovely hedge ring featured top professionals and horses. Spectators donning their\u00a0 Sunday best filled the box seats that lined the perimeter of the ring.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member Stories IF YOU HAVE A MEMBER STORY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE, PLEASE SEND IT TO US!\u00a0 WE’LL BE GLAD TO ADD IT TO THE ONES BELOW.\u00a0 PLEASE ENJOY THESE STORIES FROM OUR MEMBERS! Gerald Pack, longtime Tryon area horseman.\u00a0 \u201cShowing at Tryon\u2019s Annual Horse Show at Harmon Field wasconsidered as highly prestigious.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/tryonridingandhuntclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}