The video was leaked the night before the official June 25 groundbreaking ceremony so was taken down. But it’s back up now on youtube and between it and Chronicle articles, all should be known.
I was at the groundbreaking ceremony and it is hugely impressive in person. It’s amazing what vision and enthusiastic investors can do. Should be great for our neck of the woods and equestrian sport in general. Fingers crossed!
It sounds great. Can’t wait to hear how things go there. How nice to think that they are planning on a grand scale right from the start! 
That video should work. I cannot believe this is going to be a few hours away from us!! It certainly will change the show scene around here.
Somebody I know who was planning to go to the first week told me that they were never notified that it was cancelled. The only way they found out was 3 days before when their barn called to get an extra stall and they were like, “oh, it’s actually cancelled.” This is just what I was told from the ppl who were going, but kinda weird anyways!
I’m excited to check this place out!
Isn’t it super hot in NC in the summer? And snow in the winter? The place looks great I just don’t know how they can compete with any of the current circuits when the weather gets extreme. I would be interested in taking a trip up there though.
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Isn’t it super hot in NC in the summer? And snow in the winter? The place looks great I just don’t know how they can compete with any of the current circuits when the weather gets extreme. I would be interested in taking a trip up there though.[/QUOTE]
^ Yes, it is. I don’t know what they meant by the “thermal belt” thing, honestly. I mean: Tryon 10-day Weather Forecast
I stay in NC and surrounding states for showing anyways, so for me it’s whatever. But I can see for others looking to travel in it would be undesirable. Although it is nice in the spring and fall.
I guess Charleston and Culpeper are their direct competition for the month of July?
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It is off of 74 Pea Ridge Road. Closer to Rutherfordton than Tryon. [/QUOTE]
Why do they call it Tryon when it’s not really there?
Because Tryon rolls off the tongue better than Rutherfordton? … I’m grasping at straws here lol
I’m going up to check it out this weekend. Any other COTHers going to be there?
Isothermal belt or something like that. We were showing at FENCE June 20-22 = HOT. BUT when I lived near Clemson and rode in Landrum/Tryon area, I don’t remember it being ridiculously hot or cold…but def not New England in June and def not FL in winter…
The area is beautiful and easily accessible off I-26…and there’s great food at Stone Soup. 
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Isn’t it super hot in NC in the summer? And snow in the winter? The place looks great I just don’t know how they can compete with any of the current circuits when the weather gets extreme. I would be interested in taking a trip up there though.[/QUOTE]
You could say the same about the weather in Kentucky, but they seem to run plenty of shows there.
What about the Blowing Rock horse show in July? I sure hope they aren’t competing with that…
The place looks great…but the fact that they are selling it as a “resort” just makes me think it will be overpriced and deflate the competition at other venues (Culpeper, Raleigh, Charleston, Brownland?, even KY maybe) 
BUT…I do love that they will have grass “arenas”! Hopefully some of the derbies, classics, and a few Prixs will be held on the grass!
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You could say the same about the weather in Kentucky, but they seem to run plenty of shows there.[/QUOTE]
Not really. The forecast for Lexington shows a couple days here and there in the low 90s but mostly high 70s and low 80s. Not too bad for the middle of summer. Tryon on the other hand has a day or two in the high 80s and the rest all low to mid 90s.
Also—not sure about Kentucky—but NC always feels like 100%+ humidity in the summer. So 80-90 degrees in one place might feel different than the 80-90 in NC with the ridic humidity.
The place really does look amazing. I hope something there will be semi-affordable! lol. I assume they are hoping ppl will buy surrounding properties and build farms like Wellington?
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Not really. The forecast for Lexington shows a couple days here and there in the low 90s but mostly high 70s and low 80s. Not too bad for the middle of summer. Tryon on the other hand has a day or two in the high 80s and the rest all low to mid 90s.[/QUOTE]
Eh. I’ve been in Lake Placid this week, where it’s been around 90 and sticky. The times I’ve been to Kentucky in the summer, it’s been very hot, including one brutal tour years ago when it was around 100 for a solid week or more.
If you’re going to show anywhere in the summer, odds are you will be hot at some point.
Why do they call it Tryon when it’s not really there?
Believe it or not, due to an odd layout of postal zones here, the new facility actually has a Tryon mailing address - as do all other businesses and residents in that area - so it can legitimately lay claim to the name. And of course Tryon is much better known in the horse world than “Pea Ridge.” (And at least it’s in the same state, unlike the “Links of Tryon” golf course that’s actually in Campbello, South Carolina!)
The place really does look amazing. I hope something there will be semi-affordable! lol. I assume they are hoping ppl will buy surrounding properties and build farms like Wellington?
There are already many, many horse farms in Polk County and the highest per capita horse ownership out of NC’s 100 counties. What has happened already is that some of the nicest farms that have been on the market for awhile due to slow economy have sold recently to some of the new facility’s connections.
As for prices, at the announcement last week, M. Bellissimo said they’d like to have homes at all price points and that it should be much more affordable than Wellington. (Let’s face it, we’re not Palm Beach here…)
As for the weather, summers do get hot although we’re in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains so that keeps it a little cooler than flatter parts of the state; Polk County first became known as a cooler place to spend summers for people from the coast and piedmont.
I would be interested in summering there if the show took off and things were affordable. They seem to have put a LOT of thought into this. I have only experienced NC a few times and it was always super hot or super cold which is what sparked my initial question but you guys are right, everywhere this time of year is hot as hell at one point or another Mid 90s with humidity just sounds painful
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