Who’s Who on the Maryland Horse Industry Board, continued...
is also trained as a civil mediator and collaborate law practitioner. In addition to her Bar Association memberships, her current and recent memberships have been with the American College of Equine Attorneys, Maryland Horse Council, Maryland Farm Bureau, the American Horse Council, American Morgan Horse Association, National T oroughbred Racing Association, and the United States Equestrian Federation. She is a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau Equine Committee, as well as one of the founding members of the Animal Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA) and she serves on its Equine Law subcommittee. She also serves on the MSBA Special Committee, Citzenship Law Related Education (CLREP). Kathleen provides speaker services to horse and pony clubs and to breed and sport associations, as well as to her colleagues in the legal profession. She has acted as a speaker, coordinator, moderator, and panelist at many venues, and written articles on various aspects of law related to the equine industry. She authored MHC’s “Guide to County Zoning and Horses” and is co-author of the book, Maryland Equine Law—A Legal Guide to Horse Ownership & Activities. Kathleen currently owns a young Morgan gelding, Statesman’s Midnite Cowboy. She is a pleasure rider, but also enjoys driving. She held a commercial carriage license driving Percherons and Belgians in the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore and also held a pari-mutuel teller’s license with the Maryland Jockey Club prior to entering law school at the University of Baltimore.
State Stable Inspector Keziah Richard
“Kezie” joined MHIB as state stable inspector in July 2011, taking over the position vacated by Bev Raymond. She is responsible for inspecting licensed stable and veterinary hospitals and clinics. Kezie grew up in the Middletown, Delaware area and was active in 4-H Club, Pony Club and was president of her high school FFA chapter. She rides both English
and Western and has worked as an assistant at T oroughbred and Standardbred breeding and training farms as well as working as a vet tech for four years. At a young age, she brings a wealth of good old common horse sense to her job as well as vast experience in both the equine and veterinary worlds. She attended Delaware State University for two years and then completed her bachelor’s degree in animal science at Virginia Tech. She has two horses of her own and lives on a beef cattle farm in Taneytown.
Executive Director Ross Peddicord
A lifelong horseman, Ross grew up on a farm in Howard County, attended the McDonogh School where he was a lieutenant in the school’s mounted cavalry along with future Olympic Gold medalist Bruce Davidson and rode on the McDonogh equestrian team. He then attended Washington College in Chestertown, where he foxhunted extensively with Mr. Hubbard’s Kent County Hounds, and continued to show and to ride in point-to-point races.
After graduating from college, Ross was a freelance writer for the Maryland Horse magazine (today the Mid-Atlantic T oroughbred), an ad manager for the Horsemen’s Journal (now defunct), a racehorse trainer, and the assistant director for public relations at the Maryland Jockey Club for the Laurel/Pimlico and Bowie race tracks. He also had an 18-year career as the award-winning race journalist for T e Baltimore Sun and raised T oroughbreds at his Brush Hill Farm in New Market,
exhibiting six Grand Champion T oroughbreds at the Maryland State Fair and raising numerous winners at the track, including stakes horses King’s Corsair, Wm. Withers, Nor Bay and Arlington Million Steeplechase winner Shy Donald. In 2004, Ross and two partners founded Maryland Life magazine, where he worked extensively with all 25 tourism agencies (county and state), and he serves as the immediate past chairman of the Maryland Tourism Council.
Ross attended classes in the MBA program at Mount St. Mary’s University while serving as the Mount’s Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving and subsequently Director of Marketing for its Continuing Studies programs. While at the Mount, he helped to found the school’s Intercollegiate Horse Show Association riding team and served as its faculty/administrative advisor.
State Stable Inspector Pegeen Morgan
Pegeen, or Peggy as her friends know her, has been working as an Animal Health Inspector with the Maryland Department of Agriculture for the past 30 years. She has been in the midst of all Maryland animal health issues throughout that tenure. Although she has a diverse background with diff erent animal species, she has always been a horse lover and has owned horses for approximately 35 years, from her experiences growing up as a 4-H member up until her present ownership of a small family farm in Upper Marlboro. Many people may have met Peggy in the past through her involvement with the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Open House, having brought her animals to the event, including a miniature horse and a draft horse, for the past 20 years. Additionally, Peggy has regularly been seen inspecting animal health papers at regional agricultural fairs and shows. Peggy is married to Chris and has two children, Rossalyn and Francis, who have grown up helping out on the family farm.
Technical Advisor Crystal B. Kimball
Although not formally appointed to the MHIB, Crystal serves at their request as a technical advisor. Crystal is the publisher and owner of T e Equiery. In addition to her articles in T e Equiery, which have been reprinted in numerous other publications, her writing has appeared in the USCTA News, Sidelines, T e Cecil Whig,
Steeplechase Times and T e Chronicle of the Horse. In college, she rode on the University of Maryland Equestrian Team and has been involved with hunters, combined training, dressage and foxchasing for many years. She has served as secretary for Maryland Horse Council since 1994 and is subchair of the Maryland Horsemen’s Party. She has been a member of MHC since 1991 and serves on the Board of Directors as a director-at-large representing the business membership. She also serves as executive secretary for the Maryland Steeplechase Association, is a member of the MDA Soil Conservation and Pasture Management Committee and the Maryland FFA Foundation, Inc. Board of Trustees, and is an incoming fellow in the LEAD Maryland program.
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