WINNER OF THUNDER HARLEY DRAWN
2004-05-05T16:57:33
The Kentucky Derby Festival is pleased to announce the winner of the one-of-a-kind Harley-Davidson Sportster with Custom Maker's Mark Paint. Derek Page of Illinois won the Harley raffle. His name was drawn during Fox News @ 10 on Friday, April 30th at the Derby Festival Chow Wagon. Derek purchased his raffle ticket at the Maker's Mark Mile Ambassador Party at Keeneland in early April.
The Harley was raffled to help raise funds for the 2004 Kentucky Derby Festival Opening Ceremonies: Thunder Over Louisville. The new fundraising concept was developed by FOX41. The Sportster, sponsored by Fox41 WDRB-TV, Kentucky Derby Festival, Louisville Harley Davidson, and Maker’s Mark, made its debut at the first Thunder Into Louisville Poker Run in November 2003.
The magnificent machine was displayed at local events, as well as during the 2004 Kentucky Derby Festival. Raffle tickets were sold at $10 each and raised more than $20,000 to help support Thunder Over Louisville.
Directors, officers and employees of Kentucky Derby Festival, Independence Television Company, Maker's Mark, their distributors, divisions, affiliates, and subsidiaries, licensed retailers, the game's promotional partners, their immediate families, and directors, officers and employees were not eligible to win.
Thunder Over Louisville – the Derby Festival’s Opening Ceremonies -- is the largest single-day event in the region. It’s one of the more than seventy events produced by the Derby Festival in the spring. The 2004 show was sponsored by Caesars Indiana, Ford Motor Company and UPS.
The Derby Festival is an independent community organization supported by 4,000 volunteers, 325 businesses and civic groups, Pegasus Pin sponsorships and event participation. It entertains more than 1.5 million people in a two- week period and has a local economic impact of more than $93 million. Thunder alone contributes $31 million of that estimate to both sides of the Ohio River. This involvement has made the Festival the largest single attended event in Kentucky and one of the leading community celebrations in the world.
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