Fundraiser to benefit the Round Barn scheduled on Futurity Day
Friday, September 28, 2012 - from The Red Mile
Lexington, NY --- The annual fundraiser for the Round Barn at The Red Mile will be held on Sunday morning, Oct. 7, prior to the big racing card featuring the Kentucky Futurity.
The event is free and open to the public and will get underway at 10 a.m., eastern with coffee and pastries. There will be many items offered in a silent auction, plus a brief live auction, with proceeds from the sale to be used for the latest capital need, to repair rotted wood structural support beams in the barn.
Among the items to be auctioned are many unique horse-themed items, including benches with cushions in fabric depicting trotters. In addition, prints of works by famed equine artists Philip Berkley, Richard Stone Reeves, George Ford Morris and Helen Hayes will be among the items offered.
A complete list of auction items will be posted next week, and will also be available at The Red Mile program stands and at Fennell's harness shop, adjacent to the The Red Mile and Round Barn.
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The Floral Barn Folks needs to raise 100k for structural repairs to the building, which has existed since the early days of Lexington.
The building was also used for some decades for the Tom Berry Stable at Lexington.
In the late 1800s when wagering was outlawed in the city of Lexington, the Auction Pools were held on the second floor of the Floral Barn, because at that time the building was just outside the City limits of Lexington.
