Kim to Ride for Moffitt Cancer Center at Dressage Under the Stars Cancer Challenge!

We are so thankful to Horse Junkies United for helping to proliferate information on the upcoming Dressage Under the Stars Cancer Challenge.  As many may know, raising awareness and funding for cancer research is near and dear to Kim’s heart, as she lost her mother to the disease last year.

Kim is honored to have the ride on Marilyn Sherwin’s Soraya II, while she is recovering from an injury.  Marilyn is an amazing inspiration to those fighting cancer, as she battled back from stage IV ovarian cancer at the young age of 19.  Marilyn is now 70, and an example that there is hope for those diagnosed with the disease.

Once again, thank you so much to Horse Junkies United for the press on the upcoming Fundraiser.  Excerpts from the article are below.

Kim Herslow will ride for the Moffitt Cancer Center for their work with ovarian cancer at the Dressage Under the Stars Cancer Challenge presented by Invictus Farm on February 1. This will be Kim’s debut on Soraya II, a 2002 Hanoverian mare who was competed internationally with Stella Hagelstam. Now, Soraya is owned by Marilyn Sherwin, who beat cancer many years ago.

Kim Herslow will ride for the Moffitt Cancer Center for their work with ovarian cancer at the Dressage Under the Stars Cancer Challenge presented by Invictus Farm on February 1.

This will be Kim’s debut on Soraya II, a 2002 Hanoverian mare who was competed internationally with Stella Hagelstam. Now, Soraya is owned by Marilyn Sherwin, who beat cancer many years ago thanks to the Moffitt Cancer Center .

“Moffitt Cancer Center was selected since my father was treated there for melanoma and liver cancer,” Marilyn explained. “I wanted the funds to go to ovarian cancer since I was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer at age 20 and given a 5% survival chance. After surgery, radiation and chemotherapy I was cured and will be celebrating my 70th birthday next week.”

“She’s such a fighter,” said Kim who spends the majority of her year in Stockton, N.J. “She’s probably 85 pounds soaking wet, so she’s a tiny lady, and she’s as tough as they come.”