Welcome back! We’re here with our third installment, highlighting and celebrating the awesome men and women who make this iconic event possible! The weeks and months leading up to the legendary Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event are packed with planning, organizing, and lots of collaboration.
From course layout to crowd control and literally everything in between, our stewards and volunteers are the backbones of the Best Weekend All Year! Come help us pay homage to them, as we learn about why they’ve stuck with the event, their favorite memories, and learn a bit about them outside of the LRK3DE!
Sheila has been with the Kentucky Three-Day Event for 30 years! While many of our stewards and volunteers work tirelessly behind the scenes. Their work, while not visibly obvious to spectators and attendees, this particular Steward and her team have one of the more visible tasks during the event! You’ve seen their work on the course and throughout the event since 1992 when Sheila began volunteering by assisting with course decoration.
It’s a tough job (they all are!) but someone has to help make sure our hundreds of volunteers and staff are well cared for! Debbie Hinkle began volunteering with the event in 1990. She started out by assisting with weight scales at the start of Phase A. and in 2012 Debbie took over as co-chief for the XC hospitality, and that’s a monumental task in itself!
As you can imagine, competitors, mounted stewards, outriders, and event horses still need their feet managed during such a big week! Thomas Gable is the man for the job! Thomas has been with the K3DE since 1993 when he started as a farrier, and moved into the chief position in 1996.
When we say our collective volunteers and stewards have combined decades of experience, we actually mean over hundreds of years worth of collective volunteer work with this incredible event. Carolyn has been volunteering with the Kentucky Three-Day Event for 40 years! In 1982, Carolyn signed on as an Assistant Fence Judge, and in 1992 she became the Chief of 4 incredibly important groups of volunteers.
We want to thank you all so much, for everything you do! Stay tuned for the fourth and final part in our series, featuring even more of the incredible Kentucky Three-Day Event volunteers!