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<\/a>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\nThe 80th annual Pennsylvania National Horse Show is taking place at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, continuing a tradition that began in 1946. <\/p>\n
This year\u2019s event started on Oct. 8 and will hold its final day Sunday, showcasing a mix of equestrian competitions and performances. Horses like Swampy are showing off their moves for the audience.<\/p>\n
“We want people to get to experience all the different emotions, from laughter to joy being amazed,” said trainer Dan James. <\/p>\n
“Everyone’s getting to see the highlights of when it’s going really well and when sometimes it doesn’t go well,” he added. <\/p>\n
Caitlin Boyle, an equestrian competitor, shared her journey in the sport. <\/p>\n
“She’s such a fighter, she loves to compete,” Boyle said about her horse, Tahiti. <\/p>\n
Boyle began riding at the age of five and entered her first show ring at six.<\/p>\n
“At this point, these are just big dogs to me,” she said. <\/p>\n
Boyle and Tahiti won the $30,000 prize at the show on Friday. <\/p>\n
“I just love the animals. I think they’re so special,” Boyle said. <\/p>\n
Susie Shirk, executive director of the Pennsylvania National Horse Show Foundation, highlighted the significance of the horses to the event. <\/p>\n
“Those horses mean so much to all these people,” Shirk said. <\/p>\n
She explained the foundation\u2019s mission to support therapeutic riding groups and horse rescue programs. <\/p>\n
“The money that we’ve raised from this event tonight will go towards all those volunteer groups,” Shirk said. <\/p>\n
Shirk also described the effort involved in organizing the show. <\/p>\n
“Just the transformation of this building is pretty amazing. It takes a lot to put this horse show together,” she said. <\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania National Horse Show Foundation has released the dates for next year\u2019s event, which will run from Oct. 14 to Oct. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 80th annual Pennsylvania National Horse Show at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg features equestrian events, performers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[126637,2211,126638,126639,126641,5609,107,37,61823,18371,5421,103,28,30,126636,29,523,1132,126640,126643,126642,78],"class_list":["post-309094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-caitlin-boyle","tag-competition","tag-dan-james","tag-equestrian","tag-equestrian-competition","tag-event","tag-group","tag-harrisburg","tag-horses","tag-mission","tag-mix","tag-oct","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-national-horse-show","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-people","tag-performance","tag-susie-shirk","tag-swampy","tag-tahiti","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}