Rider Support | PVDA Ride for Life

Supporting PVDA Ride for Life as Riders

Ride for Life asks you, our riders, to help us raise money for the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center—by asking friends for pledges, selling show program tributes, advertising, sponsorships, and collecting Silent Auction and Rider Raffle items.

We have some exciting benefits for participating riders!

Rider Raffle open to riders raising a minimum of $100
Overall High Pledge awards to Third Place in four categories
Phantom Horse Class for participants that don’t show dressage or have a horse to ride
Gift certificates for sponsored breed awards

Your help and support is greatly appreciated! Since its inception, the PVDA Ride for Life Show has raised over $320,000. With your continued help, we can make a difference in the quality of life for breast cancer survivors and the women who mean so much in our lives.

Rider Donations

Riders – Take the Challenge!

Since 2004, the Potomac Valley Dressage Association has dedicated one of its four annual licensed Dressage Shows to raise funds in support of Breast Cancer Research. Through your continued support, PVDA has raised over $320,000 in funds for the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center.

Historically, only 25% of the riders competing in the Ride for Life licensed competition have participated in the fund raising efforts, themselves raising upwards of $35,000. Take the challenge this year and set a personal goal to help raise donations, even if it’s just $100. If everyone participated with that pledge goal, we would increase our rider donations by almost $20,000! A huge contribution to helping make a difference in someone’s life.

How it Works: Riders raise donations* while competing for High Pledge Ribbons and Overall High Pledge Awards. This year, there are several new benefits for riders raising donations for the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center. Raise a minimum of $100 and you are eligible for a Special Rider Raffle. Win lessons with top-level clinicians and sponsor-donated items and logowear.

Rider Donations consist of:

Credit is also given for:

*Pledges, tributes and silent auction items benefit Johns Hopkins directly. Rider raffle items, all sponsorship, and advertising donations are used to offset the costs of the holding the benefit.

Rider Donation Forms

Rider Raffle

Here’s how it works: For every $100 in donations collected, you will receive one raffle ticket. If you raise $1,500, you receive 15 tickets; raise $3000, and you receive 30 tickets, etc. Drawings will be held throughout the show for lessons with clinicians, sponsor-donated items, and logowear.

To improve everyone’s odds of winning, you are limited to a maximum of 10 raffle tickets per clinician—your choice of clinicians, and, of course, you can choose more than one clinician!

Phantom Horse Class

When a call went out for ideas to increase fundraising participation for the PVDA Ride for Life, the concept for this class was suggested by a PVDA member. This class provides the opportunity for those not competing at the Ride for Life show, who ride another discipline, or who are volunteering to still raise funds for the Quality of Life Research Fund. Now everyone can participate!

Download the entry form for the Phantom Horse Class

“Riders” compete on “phantom horses,” but instead of placing by score, class ribbons are awarded based on the amount of donations collected.

Entrants are eligible for: