The Silver Oak Jumper Tournament is BACK, and with proper social distancing and plenty of sanitizer on deck, we’re elated to be to be holding this year’s events in what will hopefully become the new home of SOJT in Traverse City, Michigan! A monumental and stunning venue, the Flintfields Horse Park is a marvel of the equestrian sport in this country, so impressive in size, beauty and functionality that even the strong winds off of the lake today couldn’t take away from the sheer enjoyment of being on the new grounds!

We at Silver Oak, including our CEO Jeff Papows are extremely pleased with the results so for for our collaborative efforts with the Morrissey Management Group. And we’re not the only ones since this is truly a space that fulfills all of the needs of our riders and of course the horses, if the well over 1,100 horse turnout is any indication so far… Classes are overflowing with upwards of seventy, eighty, and even over ninety riders in some rings. Even in the Grand Prix arena, where the competition is already warming up for the GGT Welcome Stakes on Friday, one of the 1.20m classes alone had 92 riders! We can’t wait to see things continue to vamp with Sunny and seventies forcast for the rest of the week as we approach the Welcome and even more over the weekend, including the 1.35m Kevin Babington Benefit Classic Saturday, and the final $75,000 Agero Grand Prix on Sunday.