The 17th Annual Audrey Grace Auction is now open for bidding on the Pleasurehorse.com forum. 

The auction, which runs through 5 p.m. (EST), on Sunday, Dec. 16, 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.

Stallion services, tack, jewelry, horse treats, show clothing and much more will be up for grabs to the highest bidder and InStride Edition has donated a full page, full color camera ready ad to the auction that can be used any month in 2019. 

Each item donated has a minimum opening bid and bidding is set at pre-determined increments. Instructions on how the bidding process works is available at: http://www.pleasurehorse.com/whats-hot/audrey-grace-auction-open-for-bidding/#.XBOCzS3MxcA

Jane Backes, of Dallas, Texas, an AQHA and NSBA breeder and competitor 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.

“Each year, the auction raises more than $40,000, every penny of which going directly to the Audrey Grace House,” Backes said.  “Leon and I have felt a certain comfort watching the love for the Audrey Grace house by the generous donations to the children it has helped.   We found something good from the tragedy of losing a child. Her name and memory will live on through all the children her house will help.”

Tax deductible donations and money raised through the annual online auction continue to help with the full scope of the project. The money is used from purchasing the land, to building the home, maintaining the house, supplying food, clothes, schooling, medical care, hiring Master’s level licensed clinicians who provide the care these children need, and 24 hour caregivers.

EVERY penny made in this Auction goes directly to the Children of New Horizons. The site has been donated by Pleasurehorse.com and all employee hours have been donated. All the items and breedings have been donated as well.

Click here to go directly to the live Audrey Grace Auction on pleasurehorse.com: http://forums.pleasurehorse.com/phj_forum/messages/?msg=281232.1