{"id":91315,"date":"2019-12-13T21:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/silvertons-skijoring-race-is-officially-a-go\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T21:47:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:47:24","slug":"silvertons-skijoring-race-is-officially-a-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/silvertons-skijoring-race-is-officially-a-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverton\u2019s skijoring race is officially a go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13783dce-adcd-4abe-879c-a3f8969cc8bd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1540\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Event organizers have raised enough money for Silverton\u2019s skijoring race in February.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Event organizers have raised enough money for Silverton\u2019s skijoring race in February.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Silverton\u2019s 2020 skijoring race is officially a go.<\/p>\n<p>In November, <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/302925\">event organizers said they needed to raise about $10,000<\/a> by Dec. 15 or there likely wouldn\u2019t be an event this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Sites, director of the race, said a flurry of donations came in over the past few weeks from local businesses in Silverton and Durango, and even some anonymous donors, raising about $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Then, a $5,000 match from the town of Silverton gave the event the green light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re back on officially,\u201d Sites said.<\/p>\n<p>Every Presidents Day weekend in February, Silverton hosts the popular race, which features riders on skis being pulled by horses on Blair Street. It\u2019s by far the town\u2019s largest event in winter, bringing 3,000 to 4,000 people to the small community about 50 miles north of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>It costs about $30,000 to run the event, which includes money for insurance, announcers, rental equipment and about $10,000 in prize money for the victors.<\/p>\n<p>Sites, who is in her first year as director, has said previously she is looking for more stable ways to fund skijoring in the future, so the event doesn\u2019t rely solely on donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to come up with creative solutions to stop asking all the local businesses for money,\u201d Sites said in November.<\/p>\n<p>Some new things to expect at this winter\u2019s race: a beer festival, with proceeds going to the 2021 skijoring race, and T-shirts and hats for sale with a new logo.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers raise enough money for 2020 event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,327],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-silverton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91315"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}