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Hi everyone, thanks for joining us today for the raffle for the Roses official drawing. I'm Jasmine Embers with Maryhurst and joining us is Mark Whitten, community relations director at Churchill Downs. Thanks for being here. Absolutely, Jasmine, thank you so much for having me. We're excited for this. Yes, absolutely. So many people are we've had incredible community support over the last few weeks and each $100 ticket if you don't know about this raffle supports our programs that Mary Hurst whether it's residential renewal, everything that. Supports our families here in our communities and across the Commonwealth. So thank you all for your support. This means a lot for this organization. And Mark, just can you share why you guys have partnered with Maryhurst to make this happen? Absolutely. So Churchill Downs has been a part of our community since 1875. So this is going to be very 152, which is really amazing. And the city of Louisville and the area have really poured into us and we want to do everything we can to pour back into them. Mary Hurst is one of the only organizations in Kentucky. That is older than we are. And so it's kind of a natural partnership and we are really excited to be able to use our product at the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby to really give back to the kids that you guys are serving every day. Well, thank you. Because this raffle would be possible without those packages. Can you share a little bit about what these what's included? Yeah, absolutely. So each one of these. So this one is for the Kentucky Oaks and this is for the Kentucky Derby will include a box for six to those days that will be in Section 324. So you and five of your closest friends can come out for a day at the races. Sit in that. Box, it is located right between the starting gate and the finish line, so you were gonna get a great view of those horses running down the home stretch. You also get all of your food and your drink included for both days. And you have parking included at the Kentucky Expo Center from where we will shuttle you to the track. So it really is an all inclusive experience. You don't have to worry about anything except maybe what you're going to wear that day. And that's the most important thing, right? So if you did miss out on this year's raffle, we do this every single year. So definitely look out for the next one. But I think we are ready to announce the winner. So let's get to it. Let's start with the Oaks package. Alright, this is exciting. There you go. So our lucky winner for the Oaks package is Julie Gearing. So again, Julie Gearing, this is the Champion Oaks package. Congratulations. All right, we're going to move on to that. The Derby. Have a lot of entries for this lot of this one. All right, our lucky winner for the Legend package for the Derby if Connie Reinhardt. Connie Reinhardt, congratulations. Thanks again to you everyone who joined the raffle and thank you, Mark and Churchill Downs for your incredible partnership. We appreciate everything that you do for Mary Hurst and again for the winners for the Oaks under Patches. We're going to reach out to you, confirm your information, send you on over to Mark and the team to get you situated for your your special experiences. Thanks everyone.