2025 Race Day Schedule

Steeplechase at Callaway Gardens

9:00 AM

Front Gate Opens
Hospitality Tents Open

10:00 AM

Blade & Bow Pavilion opens:  Souvenirs, Silent Auction and Vendor Village
Raffle Tickets on Sale
     Tickets are $100 each, only 500 sold!
     Win a $5,000 Travel Voucher for a Trip of Your Choice planned by Frances Boyce of Columbus Travel!

11:00 AM

Coors Light Infield Pavilion Opens – Live Music Begins
Clingstones Kids Corral Open (The Infield)
Atholl Highlanders Bagpipes and Drums
Midland Foxhounds Parade 

11:30 AM

Race Director’s Welcome- Carolyn Bettin
Past Race Directors Announced
Lampton Bronze Award Presentation Honoring Volunteers  

11:45 AM

National Anthem & Presentation of Colors
     National Anthem – The Northside High School Singers
     Color Guard – Southern Preparatory Academy
Invocation- Rev. Dr. Shane Green

12:00 PM

Race A – Fun Size Stakes
Purse $100
Race runs backwards, starts at the finish and ends at the Turn

12:20 PM 

Race B – Maxine Strupe Perpetual Pony sponsored by Southern Charm Country Feed Store
Purse $200

1:00 PM

Race #1 – The W.C. Bradley Steeplethon
Purse $20,000 

1:00 PM

Steeplechase Hat Contest 
Categories: Best Homemade, Biggest Showstopper, and Most Southern Flare 

1:40 PM

PM Race #2 – The Collie Jennings Mullin Hurdle
Purse $30,000

2:20 PM 

Race #3 – The Blade & Bow Maiden Hurdle
Purse $30,000

Steeplechase Hat Contest Winners Announced to All Patrons 

3:00 PM

Race #4 – The Aflac Supreme Hurdle 
Purse $75,000

3:00 PM

Silent Auction Closes in Blade & Bow Pavilion

3:20 PM

2025 Raffle Drawing
     Win a $5,000 Travel Voucher for a Trip of Your Choice planned by Frances Boyce of Columbus Travel

3:40 PM 

Race #5 – The Standard Concrete Maiden Claiming Hurdle
Purse $20,000

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Racing for the Arts

November 15, 2025