To honor Liz Haverty, a memorial trophy is in the works to be created by Marrita Black who is a renown equine bronze sculptor located in Gainesville Texas. Her award winning style and her attention to realism has led her pieces to be on display at galleries and museums across the country; including the American Quarter Horse Association Heritage Center and the American Paint Horse Foundation.
“With Clint’s blessing we are hoping for a beautiful bronze trophy horse statue that will be awarded yearly in remembrance of Liz at a major horse show,” says Mary Anne Hall, who set up the Liz Haverty Memorial Trophy Facebook page. “Funds are coming in–please donate when you feel that you can. We need at least $3000 to get this done and if we want to cast it in Bronze the cost is more.”
Go to Paypal.com and send funds to [email protected].
If you would rather send a check. Please send your check to:
Mary Anne Hall
2530 CR 123
Gainesville Texas 76240
Make your check out to Marrita Black.
Special Thanks to Sandy Jirkovsky and Cindy Katona for their help in getting the word out and helping with this memorial trophy.
From Clint Haverty:
Liz had two horse families in the horse communities–many in the reining are not aware of that as some of you weren’t born yet when she and I met. She thought so much of both. She was very active in the pleasure classes with the Appaloosa Horse Club when I first met her, when that breed was the second largest registry, behind AQHA. In fact, that’s one of the reasons we got married. I used to watch this pretty girl ride this bald faced mare around the arena just down the hill from my house in Corpus Christi, Texas. Well, I was pretty sure how she was bred, so I went over to visit with her to try to buy her as I knew where I could sell her.
Well, she wouldn’t sell me the mare so, I courted her, married her and didn’t have to buy the mare. The mare’s name was, Sweet Pearl, whom she won the worlds on in pleasure that fall. She traveled like a coyote, just slipped along. Liz went on and won quite a few World and National tiles in different pleasure classes over the years. Twenty five or so? I’ll try to figure them out. She decided that it was time for her to quit the pleasure horses and get her Non Pro card. The last pleasure class she showed in was Ladies Pleasure–big class full of beautiful women. She rode a mare we raised named Alchemy–won it and retired from riding pleasure horses to ride reiners. That’s why the people that started this, Sandy J. and several others came up with the idea to give it as a traveling memorial trophy for that class. The winner will keep the it for a year then keep the bronze and small base, then we’ll put a new horse on and go again.
Hopefully this can be set up so it will continue for many years. In regards to NRHA, she truly enjoyed the reiners and her reining family. From the breeding shed to the Futurity and beyond, she truly lived, breathed and loved the ride. I haven’t talked to Frankie yet about where the money is to go that has been donated to the Foundation in her name, but I’m sure she would want it to go towards a scholarship fund. She always enjoyed working behind the scenes on different projects, taking no credit for the results, just enjoying the ride. But I want her name attached to this scholarship fund. If anyone wants to donate to the fund, send a check direct to NRHA and direct it the the Foundation in Liz’s name and it will go to the appropriate place. Thank you everyone, for all your kind words about Lizzie.
