There’s not much time left to score a great deal on a stallion service or do some last-minute holiday shopping to benefit a great cause over on the Pleasurehorse.com forum.

The 15^th Annual Audrey Grace Auction will remain open until 5 p.m. (EST) on Sunday, Dec. 18. The auction helps raise funds for the New Horizons Audrey Grace House in Abilene, Texas, part of the Community Center of Care, which provides residential treatment services to children, ages 5 to 17, suffering from emotional, behavioral, and attachment or relationship problems.

InStride Edition has donated a full page, full color camera ready ad to the auction that can be used any month in 2017. As of Saturday morning, the high bid on the ad was only $250 – that’s less than half the regular price….so act now!

The stallion roster of donated breedings includes star-studded sires like One Hot Krymsun, Lazy Loper, Machine Made, Willy Be Invited, How Bout This Cowboy, Certain Potential, Huntin For Chocolate, Only In The Moonlight, A Scenic Impulse, Good Machinery, Red White N Good, The Rock, Righteous Invitation, Hes A Cool Hotrod, DGS IndyGo, HBF Iron Man, Invite The Artist, VS Code Blue, The Next Detail, Strutten On The Range, Hez Plum Poison, Coats n Tails , Good Time to Shine , Blazing Hot, Extremely Hot Chips, Nite Moves, Certainly A Vision, A Touch Of Sudden, Whata Vested Asset, Hotti In The House, Zipped Cash, Repeated In Red, VS Code Red, and VS Flatline, just to name a few.

Jane Backes, an AQHA and NSBA breeder and competitor, from Dallas, Texas, started the auction after she and her husband, Leon, lost their daughter, Audrey Grace, at birth in 2002. Since then the auction has raised over $700,000 through the online bidding event and the Backes family matches the money raised, making the total raised $1,400,000. Thanks to sizable additional contribution from the T. Boone Pickens Foundation and the Reese Jones Foundation, the dream for the Audrey Grace House became a reality in 2009 when the first children moved into the facility.

“Each year, the auction raises more than $50,000, every penny of which going directly to the Audrey Grace House,” Backes said.  “Our daughter’s memory will be long lived helping children in hard times find nurturing and therapeutic care, in the home named after her. Please know it takes a team effort to accomplish this.  Not one donor or bidder, but a family of caring individuals coming together for a common goal – putting children first.”

Check out this year’s auction at: http://www.pleasurehorse.com/content/audrey-grace-auction/#.VmmdFGCYGMj

To bid on the InStride Edition ad click here: http://forums.pleasurehorse.com/phj_forum/messages

To learn more about the Audrey Grace house visit http://www.newhorizonsinc.com/home