Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Funds being raised to help Kingwood equestrian compete in Slovakia

NJ.com - Full Article

By Lillian Shupe | For NJ.com
on September 02, 2016

Kingwood Township resident Meg Sleeper is headed back to the FEI World Endurance Championships and friends are helping to pay for the trip.

In August, the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) named Sleeper and her horse, Shyrocco Rimbaud, or Rim for short, to the United States team. The championships will be held in Samorin, Slovakia, Sept. 16-17.

Getting a horse and a support crew to Slovakia is not an inexpensive task. Although Sleeper got a grant for $10,000, her friend Robyn Farrington set up a GoFundMe account to raise the more than $18,000 more needed to fund the trip...

Read more here:
http://www.nj.com/horsenews/2016/09/njs_sleeper_named_to_us_endura.html

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