Bill Text: NY K00629 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Lake Placid Horse Shows on June 30, 2019

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-19 - adopted [K00629 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-K00629-Introduced.html

Assembly Resolution No. 629

BY: M. of A. Stec

        COMMEMORATING  the  50th  Anniversary  of the Lake
        Placid Horse Shows on June 30, 2019

  WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to honor  and  pay
tribute  to  those  establishments whose commitment and creative talents
contribute to recreational American tradition and the  entertainment  of
their community and the entire State of New York; and

  WHEREAS,  Attendant  to  such  concern,  and in full accord with its
long-standing traditions, this  Legislative  Body  is  justly  proud  to
commemorate  the  50th  Anniversary of the Lake Placid Horse Shows to be
celebrated at its Grand Prix of Lake Placid on Sunday,  June  30,  2019;
and

  WHEREAS,  The  Lake  Placid Horse Shows, two of the nation's premier
Hunter and Show Jumping competitions, feature ten  days  of  world-class
competition around the Fourth of July holiday; and

  WHEREAS,  For  the  past  50 years, the Lake Placid Horse Shows have
brought the nation's top show jumping horses and riders to the beautiful
Adirondacks and historic Olympic town of Lake Placid, New York; and

  WHEREAS, After fabulous growth in the late 1970s, the shows overcame
much adversity in the mid-1980s, and today, Lake Placid is recognized as
one of the premier  stops  on  the  nation's  hunter-jumper  horse  show
circuit; and

  WHEREAS,  Lake Placid's start as a horse show host came in the early
1930s, when the Lake Placid Riding Club sponsored gymkhanas,  races  and
summer meets; these early shows were elegant, highly competitive and the
social event of the celebrity calendar; and

  WHEREAS,  Lake  Placid  stopped hosting horse shows during World War
II, and did not host a horse show again until the summer of  1970,  when
the  first  of  the  current  version of the Lake Placid Horse Shows was
held; and

  WHEREAS, This initial Token Horse Show was  held  as  a  preliminary
step  towards  accreditation  with  the American Horse Shows Association
(AHSA), and was hosted by the East Kiln Pony Club of  Ausable  Forks  at
Ruth Newberry's farm; and

  WHEREAS, The following year, with the help of her daughter, Jessica,
a three time Olympic dressage rider, Ruth Newberry approached the United
States  Equestrian  Team's  top  riders  and  asked them to come to Lake
Placid; and

  WHEREAS, Personally telephoning Olympians  Frank  and  Mary  Chapot,
George  Morris  and  Bill  Steinkraus, Ruth Newberry convinced them, and
other noted riders, to bring what amounted to 145 of the best horses  in
the country to the first official Lake Placid Horse Show; and

  WHEREAS,  Today,  the  Lake  Placid  Horse Shows boast a world-class
venue with state-of-the-art footing set in  an  unrivaled  vacation-like
setting,  making  it a favorite stop for competitors and families alike;
top barns regularly include the Lake Placid Horse Shows  as  a  featured
stop on their competition calendar; and

  WHEREAS,   Furthermore,  the  Lake  Placid  Horse  Shows  have  been
recognized by the National Show Hunter  Hall  of  Fame  as  one  of  the
country's  Top  Ten Horse Shows; this year, the US Equestrian Federation
has designated the Lake Placid Horse Shows as an  elite  "USEF  Heritage
Competition"; and

  WHEREAS,  The  Lake  Placid  Horse  Shows has created a show jumping
tradition which has attracted the attention and admiration of  virtually
everyone  in  the show jumping world; it has truly earned its moniker of
"the best two weeks of a horseman's summer"; and

  WHEREAS, It is  the  custom  of  this  Legislative  Body  that  when
establishments of such noble aims and accomplishments are brought to our
attention,  they should be celebrated and recognized by all the citizens
of this great Empire State; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
commemorate  the 50th Anniversary of the Lake Placid Horse Shows on June
30, 2019; and be it further

  RESOLVED, That a copy of this  Resolution,  suitably  engrossed,  be
transmitted to the Lake Placid Horse Shows.
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