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The Luray Ruritan Horse Show will mark its 25th anniversary at the Page Valley Fairgrounds in East Luray June 6 and 7.
Show times will be 7 p.m. Friday, June 6, and 10 a.m. and 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 7.
Admission will be $1 per person and a chicken barbecue meal will be served starting at 4 p.m. Saturday for $3 each including admission to the grounds. The meal will include 1/2 chicken, potato chips and apple sauce.
The horse show traces its 25-year history to the old Riverside Horse Show first held at Page Valley Estates in 1961 by a group of local horse enthusiasts and other residents. It was officially sponsored by the Girl Scout organization, but Ruritan members served barbecued chicken at the first show.
Among the early organizers were Maxine Sloat of Luray and her late husband, Bill, and Mildred Minis, also of Luray, and her late father, C. B. Graves, all breeders and exhibitors of prize-winning Tennessee walking horses. A special trophy in the show memorializes Bill Sloat.
The 1962 show was jointly sponsored by the Ruritan Club and other groups and in 1963 the show moved to the Page Valley Fairgrounds under full sponsorship of the Luray Ruritan Club.
Cletus Waters was ringmaster at the first show and continued in that capacity until his death in 19832. He is honored by a trophy in the open wester championship stake. Another show pioneer was Kenneth Wymer, who served as treasurer for many years until his death in 1985. A trophy in the all-day pleasure championship stake will be given for the first time this year in his memory.
Junior Ray Miller, who has served as the show’s secretary for its beginning, noted that the first show had only 16 classes. The second show expanded to 23 classes and this year’s silver anniversary show will feature 58 classes.
The facilities also have greatly improved over the years, Miller said. The fairgrounds now features a 150-by-300 foot show ring with ringside bams offering 100 stalls built in cooperation with the Page Valley Fair Association two years ago.
This year’s show chairman is Bob Linaburg. Others serving on the committee with Miller are S. H. Griffith, long-time show chairman who resigned the position in 1984, bam chairman and Mark Kemp, teasurer.
Judges for the show will be Kim
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