Years ago when the venerable Virginia O’Brien was at the helm of the Saratoga Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame, the Monticello-Goshen Chapter USHWA donated annually to that organization.

Just recently, upon a request from chapter member Kelly Young, USHWA’s Monticello-Goshen chapter donated $500 to the Saratoga Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame.

Young was a longtime member of USHWA’s now-defunct Saratoga Chapter, and when that organization folded, she joined the Monticello Goshen chapter. As an officer of the Saratoga Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, Young knows that organization needs funds to subsist.

And at a recent meeting of USHWA’s Monticello-Goshen chapter, she brought her request to the board and received a positive response for the donation.

Additionally, on July 6, the Monticello-Goshen chapter will again make its annual $3,000 annual donation to the National Harness Racing Museum in Goshen, New York at the Hall of Fame Banquet that evening.

Again, after running a successful awards banquet last November, the chapter also donated $3,000 to Historic Track at its monthly board meeting in December.

The donations are made possible from continued support of industry people and organizations that place ads in the chapter’s charity journal.

“We are very fortunate to be able to raise money, and when we do it is our pleasure to donate the profits back to the industry – especially to the Hall of Fame and Historic Track, which [is] in our own back yard,” noted USHWA Monticello-Goshen Chapter President Chris Tully.

(USHWA)