Maryland Will Miss... Edgar S. Almony of White Hall died on


March 1 as a result of a car accident. Born in Baltimore, Almony ran Dream Catch Equine with his wife Kathleen.


Pat Oliva of Woodbine died on January


21, just shy of her 83rd birthday. Oliva was a founding member of Trail Riders of Today and continued to support the organization at the


COMINGS & GOINGS


Horseman of the Year. Born in Connecticut, Eldredge was passionate about the environ- ment, nature and horses. He started work- ing at the Salvation Army’s Camp Puh’tok in Baltimore County, which was founded by his father in 1942, when he was just 12. He was tasked with taking care of the camp’s horses. He graduated from Baltimore City College


and attended Baltimore County Commu- nity College and Towson State. Eldredge left Towson before graduating to join the Navy, serving on the USS Roosevelt and USS Jason. He served in the 7th Fleet during the Korean War from 1951 to 1955. After the war, he graduated from Springfield College in Mas- sachusetts in 1958, and married Peggy Lee Schoepflin the following year. Eldredge and his family briefly lived in New


Pat Oliva receiving a Touch of Class award from MHIB in 2015.


time of her death. She was also a passionate advocate for preserving open space and main- taining equine access to public trails. Profes- sionally, Oliva earned a nursing degree from American University and practiced emergency nursing care at Holly Cross Hospital in Silver Spring for many years. As an endurance rider, Oliva logged more


than 22,200 miles; over 4,000 of those miles were with her equine partner Colonel Pepper. Oliva was inducted into the American Endur- ance Ride Conference Hall of Fame in 2014. She was 78 when she received this honor. At the time, she had been riding in endurance races for more than 40 years and had logged over 21,000 miles in competitions that were 50 miles or longer. Oliva was one of the first riders to compete at the Old Dominion Ride in 1974. Old Dominion has now become a staple on the U.S. Endurance schedule. In 2015, Oliva was presented with the Touch of Class Award from the Maryland Horse In- dustry Board for her national endurance ride accomplishments. In March of 2017, Oliva and Pepper completed their “Century Ride” by finishing the Blackwater Swamps 25-mile ride with a combined age of 101.


Robert “Bob” William Eldredge died on


February 15 at the age of 90. Eldredge was the Maryland Horse Council’s 2010 Maryland


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York before returning to the Baltimore area and settling in Monkton. He worked at the Middle River Boys Clubs and then returned to Camp Puh’tok. In addition, Eldredge


worked for Te Maryland Horse magazine where he was the managing editor and art director begin- ning in 1986. As an art- ist, his watercolors and oil paintings of Maryland’s fox hunting country and the Maryland Hunt Cup course maps are legendary and found in many equestrians’ art collections. His illustra- tions can be found in the book Jay Trump: A Steeplechase Saga by Peter Winants. To read more about Bob Eldredge, read his Horseman of the Year story on equiery.com.


Patrick G. “Packy” McGaughan by Jennifer Sponseller Webster Patrick G. “Packy” McGaughan, well-known


trainer, clinician and member of the 1987 Pan American Games Gold Medal winning 3-Day Eventing Team, died unexpectedly at his home in Clarksburg, on March 12. He was 56. Packy was born in Texas and relocated east


with his family in the early 1970s where they built Banbury Cross Farm, and enjoyed the sport of riding together. Tey hunted with the New Market Hounds (later the New Market- Middletown Valley Hounds), and Packy and his siblings were members of the Frederick Pony Club. He competed successfully in all the Pony Club disciplines and graduated with an


A sad farewell to Clay Hill Stables in Springdale, which closed its doors in March after 56 years in business. Tim Ritvo, Chief Operating Officer for Te Stronach Group, stepped away from the company as of March 2, 2020, to pursue other opportunities. Katie Street has joined Maryland Terapeutic Riding as Program Manager. Rene D. Heaps has joined the Maryland State Fair board.


“A” rating, the highest level of USPC. During the late seventies and early eighties,


Packy was a student of Torrance Watkins and Jim Wofford, who once referred to him as “one of [his] most talented students.” After a top ten finish at


Bob Eldredge at Camp Puh’tok in 2010.


the Young Rider World Championships on a borrowed horse, he was noticed by Jack Le Goff and invited to become a Rider in Residence at the United States Equestrian Team (USET) once he graduated from St. John’s at Prospect Hall in Fred- erick. Packy had already been accepted to college at Duke University but deferred admission for a


year to accept the opportunity. During his year at USET, Packy worked with some of the team’s great horses, including Blue Stone, who went on to become J. Michael Plumb’s double Gold Med- al partner at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Tough he took some time away from up-


per-level eventing during his first few years of college, Packy still rode for fun, competing from time to time and winning at recognized hunter shows and Hunt Night competitions on Tanzer, a grey Trakehner gelding with as much personality as he had talent. Tanzer was originally purchased as a dressage pros- pect for Packy’s mother, Judy. Brought up through the eventing levels with both Dickcy Boutelle (Gibson) and Olympic medalist Tor- rance Watkins, Tanzer was fit and ready in the spring of 1987 when he and Packy made their first attempt at the Rolex Kentucky Tree-Day Event. Teir second place finish qualified them for the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. Te team of Mike Huber, Nanci Lindroth, Emily MacGowan, and Packy were the even- continued ...


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