2004 GNC MX & TT Banquet

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The Banquet is held just across the Ohio Border in Fort Mitchell, KY. The city of Cincinnati, OH is on the other side of the river, which is where I flew into to attend the event.

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The Banquet has been held for the past few years at the Drawbridge Inn, which is a fairly large hotel, but with other 800 people in attendance for this years event, the facility was quickly filled to capacity. This years crowd was up from just over 700 last year and 600 the year before, so things are definitely going in the right direction for the growth of the sport.

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Guest began arriving well before the 5PM time the gates opened to get a chance to get settled into their hotel rooms and socialize with fellow riders.

Among some the riders in Attendance was Pro Rider Jathan Seale with his wife Kay. Jathan finished third in the TT Pro Class, and he will also be attending the GNCC Banquet in a few weeks to also receive his award for finishing 3rd in the GNCC Pro Am Class.

Congratulations Jathan on such a successful racing year!!!

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2nd Place TT Women's A Class Rider, Amanda Slaton, was looking terrific when she showed up for the banquet.

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MX 265A Champion & 2nd Place Pro Am 265, Jeremy Lawson, had plenty to be happy about this season, and I am sure he can't wait till next season.

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Once inside, many of the riders were quickly approached by David Screws, ATV Ridin XtraATV Racin' Extra looking to find out any big news from the riders as the headed over to the ATV Sport voting.

Darin Ogden revealed some of his news to David

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Jeremiah Jones & Keith Little took some time to talk with each other about their plans in the off season, which from the sound of their conversation. I don't think they will be relaxing much over the winter.

Keith Little will be heading to Arizona to Lonestar Headquarters to begin preparing for next season by racing out on the West Coast, and Jeremiah Jones will be heading to California for testing & training with his New Suzuki Team

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The ATV Sport crew kept busy handling the voting for the "ATV Sport People's Choice Awards." With over 800 people in attendance, they were busy tallying the votes.

Also, they were collecting names of people who were interested in purchasing this season's ATV Sport Television shows on one CD for only $10, which I thought was a great bargain for some great racing action and stories.

If you are interested, please send an email to Jerrod Kelley jkelley@ehlertpublishing.com at ATV Sport and let them know, so they will make this happen.

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The voting took place from 3PM - 5PM before the banquet doors opened, and it was great to see so many people involved in the voting.

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While the Ball Room remained locked, I took some time to a sneak peak at all the work that Sherri Tayler has put in along with the many other volunteers have put into making the banquet possible.

The first thing that caught my eye was the long table full of products donated by various manufacturers including(Fullbore, Laeger, PEP, Baldwin Motorsports, Sparks Racing, Longenberger, JB Racing, and many more).

$5.00 dollar tickets could be purchased at the beginning of the night and placed into the jar that they wanted to take a chance at winning. One lucky ticket for each item would be drawn through out the evening to determine the winner of each prize, and some of the prizes were valued up to almost $2,000