From Sally O’Connor:
I have had the privilege of being at Rebecca Farm in one capacity or another for the entire ten years of its existence. And before that for the event at Herron Park.
When Becky Broussard made up her mind to produce the finest event in the country there were no holds barred. Her vision for an international event took off with wings and is still flying.
Each year on arrival I managed to catch up with Becky before the actual start of competition and we would go off in a golf cart, provided by the “golf cart Nazis” from her home state of Louisiana, and inspect all the cross country courses. Each year she delighted in the improvements and all the theme jumps from Jurassic Park, to the Booby traps, to the Trout Pond and the Loch Ness Monster. We enjoyed a good laugh and some serious discussion.
This year she was not there. I did not have the heart to go around a single course alone.
It was the best year ever. There were more horses and international competitors than ever.
At a touching memorial ceremony on the Wednesday before the competition we all stood and reminisced about her life. Sadly, we walked one by one to a lovely graven stone surrounded by lovely plants and trees and laid a carnation in brilliant white red or orange by her stone.
Rebecca Farm will never be the same but Sarah, her daughter, has picked up the reins and as they say in England as one era closes “The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen.”
