Sport & Leisure Company of Maryland introduced Might 6 the ticket on-sale date for the fourth version of the annual MARS Maryland 5 Star at Honest Hill offered by Brown Advisory, shall be Monday, Might, 20, 2024. The occasion brings the world’s most embellished eventers again to the globally acknowledged Honest Hill Particular Occasion Zone in Elkton, Maryland (Cecil County) this October.
Billed because the “Triathlon of Equestrian Sports activities”, the distinguished 5 Star (CCI5*) designation is the top of the Olympic sport of Eventing and distinctive in that women and men full alongside each other. Broadly referred to as one of the crucial acclaimed equestrian occasions, the Maryland 5 Star at Honest Hill is one in all solely two 5 Star stage equestrian occasions of its form in the USA and seventh on the planet. The 4 days of Eventing competitors options Dressage (Thursday-Friday), Cross-Nation (Saturday) showcasing famend course designer Ian Stark-designed programs, and the Present Leaping finale (Sunday).
Tickets and Hospitality choices for THE Place to be in October go on sale to most people on Monday, Might 20, 2024 at 11:00 am ET. Quite a lot of single and multi-day reserved and basic admission ticket packages beginning as little as $15 (GA Tickets free for youths 10 and underneath), together with unique VIP Hospitality and Membership packages, and extra will change into obtainable. Reserved tailgating packages in the course of the exhilarating Cross-Nation part held on Saturday of the occasion shall be obtainable later this summer season. Tickets for this occasion are powered by Tixr.
In 2023, the Maryland 5 Star welcomed greater than 29,000 spectators over 4 days with practically 170 world-class rivals representing 14 completely different nations collaborating within the occasion.
Coming off a banner 12 months, the Maryland 5 Star at Honest Hill noticed greater than $11.6M in direct spending impression and $19.9 million in whole enterprise gross sales within the State of Maryland financial system in 2023, with 73% of ticket gross sales from exterior of the state. The occasion showcases Maryland and Cecil County’s attraction as a premier vacation spot for equestrian fanatics and spectators alike, driving tourism and bolstering native companies. With greater than 34.5 hours dedicated to dwell protection in 2023, it captivated each home and worldwide audiences. The occasion generated practically 5 million video views on social media and practically eight million social media impressions, amplifying its attain and additional solidifying Maryland’s standing as a top-tier vacation spot for sports activities tourism.
In 2023, Maryland Governor Wes Moore proclaimed October Maryland Horse Month in celebration of the Maryland horse trade. The month-long celebration showcases the various methods the state is enriched by it, from the financial advantages to leisure and therapeutic advantages, highlighting the various experiences which have an equestrian connection.
“The Maryland 5 Star at Honest Hill is a world-class occasion, bringing 1000’s of spectators from throughout the nation and everywhere in the world to Cecil County and hundreds of thousands in financial impression to the State of Maryland,” stated Governor Wes Moore. “Maryland’s horse trade has a protracted and proud historical past, and we’re very a lot wanting ahead to constructing upon that legacy with one other spectacular 5 Star occasion in October.”
The MARS Maryland 5 Star at Honest Hill offered by Brown Advisory attracts curiosity from all components of Maryland, the nation and throughout the globe, persevering with to be a driver for impression throughout Cecil County in a large number of the way.
“Final 12 months’s Maryland 5 Star was our most profitable to this point,” stated Danielle Hornberger, Cecil County Govt. “We are able to’t wait to welcome again to Honest Hill rivals and spectators from close to and much this October to take pleasure in all the pieces that Cecil County has to supply – superb eating places, native breweries, stunning parks and waterways, and, after all, 4 days of world-class eventing.”
The fourth version of Maryland’s elite equestrian competitors welcomes again MARS EQUESTRIAN™ and Brown Advisory as its Title and Presenting sponsors, respectively, with the continued assist of Cecil County because the occasion Host Location. Along with their assist, the Maryland 5 Star as soon as once more companions with Tixr because the Official Ticketing Service supplier of the Occasion and Nice Wolf Lodge Perryville because the Official Lodge in 2024.
“It’s our honor to host this esteemed worldwide equestrian competitors in Cecil County and the state of Maryland,” stated Jeff Newman, President & CEO of the Maryland 5 Star Occasion Committee. “Judging by the success of final 12 months’s occasion, the MARS Maryland 5 Star at Honest Hill offered by Brown Advisory is shortly changing into an occasion that folks pencil of their calendar yearly. We look ahead to welcoming the crowds again this October to see the world’s most interesting equestrian athletes, soak up a few of our different ancillary occasions such because the extremely standard Maryland Corgi Cup, pattern nice native foods and drinks choices, expertise our huge retail buying choices and a lot extra. It actually is THE Place to be in October!”
The 2023 5 Star got here all the way down to the wire with Eire’s Austin O’Connor securing the nation’s first CCI5*-L victory in practically 60 years, because the three-time Olympian moved from fourth place at the beginning of Sunday’s present leaping finale and catapulted to the highest of the leaderboard after a mistake-free last spherical along with his longtime horse companion Colorado Blue.
Within the 3 Star (CCI3*-L) competitors, Caroline Pamukcu from the USA completed atop the leaderboard whereas in The Dutta Corp. USEA Younger Occasion Horse East Coast Championships offered by Dubarry of Eire, Pamukcu completed first within the 4 year-old class whereas inaugural Maryland 5 Star winner Boyd Martin from the USA completed first within the 5 year-old class.
— Maryland 5 Star press launch
Photograph Credit score: Courtesy of the Maryland 5 Star
