BRIDAL PATHS
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Ocean City is now off ering carriage rides during the off -season (October through April) through Randy Davis of Salisbury.
ON THE MEND A speedy recovery to…
Congratulations to Rachel
Minford of Misty Meadows Stables (Cooksville) and Timothy Mullinix of J. David Mullinix and Sons (Dayton) on their recent engagement.
Congratulations to Adam Townsend, fi rst Whipper-in for Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club, and Lori Stambaugh (both of Monkton) on their recent engagement.
Maryland Will Miss
Frances Ann Merryman of Lutherville died suddenly on October 24 after being struck by a car. She was 57. Merryman was born in Balti- more to Fred Miller, Jr., and Barbara Ann Mill- er (nee Appel). Her grandfather, who owned some horses and a small farm in Mt. Washing- ton, fostered Merryman’s love of horses. While her father was busy working in the family res- taurants (Miller Brothers Restaurant and T e Kingsville Inn), her mother would take her to participate in all the local horse shows. After graduating from Notre Dame Preparatory High School in 1973, she attended College of Notre Dame of Maryland and graduated with a degree in Early Elementary Education. With this degree, she got a job teaching third grade at Immaculate Conception in Towson, where she taught for nine years, all the while continu- ing to train race horses at Pimlico Racetrack on a part-time basis. She went on to obtain her Master of Education from Towson State University in 1987, with the idea of becom- ing an elementary school principal; however, all that changed later that year, when she met John Brodix Merryman, Jr., and his family’s racehorse, Rebuff . She began training Rebuff on a part-time basis; then, when Rebuff broke his maiden at Belmont, in a 10-length victory, she quit her teaching job and devoted herself
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to training Rebuff full time. Although Rebuff never repeated the success of his fi rst victory, he continued racing for 13 years and retired as one of two oldest racehorses in Maryland at the time.
In 1995, Merryman’s daughter
Frances Ann Merryman with her daughter Barbara Ann Merryman
Barbara Ann was born. Two years later, Mer- ryman opened her own riding academy, Tack N’ Trot, allowing her to combine her love of teaching young children with her love of rid- ing. Within 12 months, what started out as a small riding academy with individual lessons grew to a full barn. While most other riding
instructors would not take children until they were 6-years-old, Merryman accepted children as young as four, encouraging them to ride and fostering a true love of the horse in even her youngest riders. Merryman’s ponies were known through the Baltimore area for being safe and sweet, and her philosophy was to keep her child riders on smaller ponies to build their confi dence while gaining the skills necessary to ride, and if desired, show, successfully. As Barbara Ann became an accomplished rider in her own right, Merryman once again became a fi xture on the local horse show circuit--this time as a trainer instead of a rider, often tak- ing students to shows hosted by the Baltimore County Horse Show Association. She also was a proud Marylander and was a huge presence every August at Maryland State Fair horse shows. Standardbred breeder Ralph Hayward of
Fort Washington died on October 21 at the age of 82. Hayward was born in Pennsylvania and joined the Army at age 17 after graduating from high school. He later switched over to the Air Force and received a degree in meteorology in 1951 from Oklahoma A&M College. He retired from the Air Force as a Senior Master Sergeant after 20 years of service. He went on continued...
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…new HCIBH Huntsman Kelly Burdge who had an emergency appendectomy one week before opening hunt;
…PHC huntsman Larry Pitts, who is recovering from a broken leg and foot suff ered when he and his horse went down while roading hounds; surgeons inserted a rod into his lower right leg. Honorary whipper-in Allen Forney will carry the horn until Larry returns to the hunt fi eld.
Rachel Minford
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