PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
January 31, 2012
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Home of the World's Richest Weekend in Show Jumping - September 8-9, 2012
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Mary Verrandeaux’s “Show Ring” selected as cover art for the 2012 HITS Ocala Official Show Program
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OCALA, FL(January 31, 2012)—HITS is pleased to announce that accomplished equine artist Mary Verrandeaux, a longtime supporter of HITS Ocala, has been selected as the cover artist for the 2012 HITS Ocala Official Show Program that is available now at HITS Post Time Farm.
Verrandeaux, who lives in Ocala, has been featured on the cover of several HITS Official Show Programs, including the cover of the 2009 HITS Ocala Winter Circuit Program. This year’s illustration is entitled “Show Ring” and features a hunter rider turning the corner when on course in a cool, calm and collected manner.
“I took the photo [that formed the basis for the final artwork] at HITS Ocala a couple of years ago,” said Verrandeaux. “It’s a neat illustration because the horse and rider are looking in the same direction and focused on the same goal. It’s one of my favorite pictures that I have ever painted.”
The HITS Ocala Official Show Program will be distributed to exhibitors starting this week and will be available to spectators on the weekends. The program features articles and content focused on life at the horse show with submissions from sponsors and popular lifestyle magazines, as well as photo galleries from the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix and the 21st Annual Marshall & Sterling League Finals. Exhibitors will also find lots of helpful information in the show program on where to go and what to see during their stay in beautiful Marion County, including information on restaurant and lodging partners.
“Mary does wonderful work and being from Ocala she knows first-hand how beautiful the property is and her paintings display that. We love having her back for another year,” said Leslie Phillips, of HITS.
An honors graduate from Sarasota’s Ringling College of Art and Design, Verrandeaux paints everything from still lifes to landscapes and portraits. Originally from upstate New York, she moved to Marion County in 1978 to be closer to her parents. As a child, she and her sister grew up showing and riding horses. The girls learned responsibility through the process.
“It taught us how to work hard and when we won, it meant so much more. Now at HITS, I see many of the people I grew up with still working, riding, and training horses. Marion County is blessed to have such a great horse show,” she said.
Verrandeaux says she comes to HITS every year. This season she will have a booth to display her artwork located in the vendor courtyard during the Ocala Winter Festival. Art collectors and equine enthusiasts can find her work by visiting HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala or through her website mverrandeaux.com.
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About HITS, Inc.
HITS, Inc. produces high-quality, international-level hunter/jumper horse shows. Based in upstate New York in the village of Saugerties, HITS has been producing shows since 1982 and is now a nationwide company with world-class circuits in California, Florida, Arizona, New York and Virginia. In 2010, HITS took the industry to new heights when it hosted the first-ever Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix. In 2011, HITS hosted the richest weekend in show jumping with the return of the Pfizer Million and the introduction of the Diamond Mills $500,000 Hunter Prix Final. In 2012, the historic weekend will get even sweeter with the addition of the $250,000 HITS 3’ Hunter Prix Final September 8-9.
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Media should contact the HITS Media Team at 845.246.8833 or e-mail Media_Info@HitsShows.com.
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