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NEWS & VIEWS continued


Former Marylander Guilty of Cruelty & Embezzlement


A little over two years ago, we reported on the October 26, 2015 arrest in Orange County, VA, of Anne Goland (a.k.a. Anne Shumate Wil- liams) on 27 counts of animal cruelty after 7 horses were found dead, and 89 that were emaciated, on her prop- erty known as Peaceable Farm. According to Orange County Sheriff Mark Amos (as reported by NBC Channel 29), “What I saw was one of the most hor- rendous sights I’ve ever seen in 28 years of law enforcement.” Goland allegedly relocated horses to this farm


from her Dickerson, Maryland, property after nu- merous complaints were made about her animals to Montgomery County authorities in early 2015. In November, Goland was found guilty on 22 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty; she was appealing the verdict. According to authorities, Goland ostensibly operated a for-profi t breeding business in con- junction with the not-for-profi t rescue known as Peaceable Farm. As a result of the cruelty charges, law enforcement expanded the scope of the investigation, eventually charging Go- land with 13 counts of felony embezzlement from funds donated to help the horses. On December 7, Goland entered a plea agree- ment, pleading guilty to one count of felony embezzlement, with the other embezzlement charges were dismissed. As a result, Goland was sentenced to fi ve years in jail, all of which were suspended. However, also as part of the embezzlement plea deal, Goland agreed to drop her appeal of the animal cruelty charges, and was sentenced to serve 18 months in jail with 90 months suspended, according to news sources. Upon release, she will serve a supervised probation for fi ve years, is prohibited from owning ani- mals for fi ve years, and must undergo a mental health evaluation.


Fire Claims Life of 1 Horse Fire claimed the life on 7 year old T orough-


bred Pappa Portmore on the evening of De- cember 6. T e gelding was stabled in one of the bright, new barns at Laurel Park when, accord- ing to various news sources, a fi re broke out in a stall being used as a tack room, and which was adjacent to his. Anne Arundel County Fire Department reacted quickly, and there were no other apparent injuries. T e new stables are considered fi re-retardant, and news sources report that there was no structural damage as a result of the fi re. As of press time, the cause of the fi re is still being investigated.


In a public statement, Maryland Jockey Club Who gets the $$?


president and general manager Sal Sinatra stat- ed: “I speak for everyone at Laurel Park and the Maryland Jockey Club when I say how devas- tated we all are by this loss. T e safety of our horses is our priority at all our tracks. One loss is too many.” Pappa Portmore, by Good


See equiery.com to fi nd out who will receive this year’s MHIB grants!


Reward, was owned by Super C Racing after being claimed for $5,000 on Dec. 1 by train- er Anthony Farrior.


ASPCA Gives $185,000 in Grants


T e ASPCA announced in December that $185,000 in grant funds was given to ten equine rescue groups to assist in their eff orts to rescue and rehabilitate retired racehorses. Making the list was MidAtlantic Horse Res- cue, Inc., from Cheasapeake City. Each of the ten rescue organizations were awarded grants ranging from $10,000 to $36,000 to help in- crease their capacity for recuing more horses.


How the ELD Mandate will aff ect the Horse Industry


Will the Federal ELD Mandate aff ect YOUR Horse Trailer?


On December 18, 2017, a new federal man-


date went into eff ect requiring many, if not most of us, to install an electronic logging de- vice (ELD) in our trucks. T e American Horse Council (AHC) is work- ing in collaboration with the rest of the animal agriculture community to request that the De- partment of Transportation (DOT) grant a one- year enforcement delay followed by a waiver and


The Equiery’s Social Side


As reported in our lead article, our combined social media posts about the cancellation of Expo just blew up, with an extraordinary reach of over 61,000 on Facebook. We’ve all heard teenagers say, “No one uses Face- book anymore,” but not according to our numbers! Our Decem- ber 7 posts were both incredibly sad, and shared throughout our community:


our


share of the Capi- tal Gazette story about the Laurel Park barn fi re reached 3,700 concerned and upset horse- people, and our share from our friends in California about the wildfi res reached 3,800. Meanwhile, our little in-house video on December 9 of T e Great Lisbon FARMERS


FEED THE HUNGRY Christmas Parade had a reach of over 18,000. If you liked that video, make sure you check out the semi-professionally-produced-and-set-to-music Parade video that we will have shared on Christmas Day! See you in 2018!


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limited exemptions from compliance; as of press time, no delay has been announced. T e AHC/ag community coalition has re- quested the DOT address the signifi cant prob- lems with the mandate that will occur if the compliance deadline is not extended. T e wel- fare, safety, and health of the animals in transit, together with the safety of other drivers on the road, are top priorities for the equine industry and its enthusiasts. T e livestock sector has consistently been one of the safest of the commercial hauling sectors. T e Large Truck Crash Causation Study, con- ducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffi c Safety Institute, showed that of 1,123 accidents involving trucks hauling cargo, only fi ve involved the transportation of livestock. Similarly, the report titled Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents Fact-book 2005, conducted by the Transportation Research Institute, shows that livestock transporters accounted for just 0.7 percent of fatal accidents. T e ELD mandate it- self, which is the subject of this petition, does nothing to improve that record of safety over pa- per logs. While this fi gure is not irrelevant, and any safety improvements should be considered, the trajectory of this rule’s implementation has left much to be desired.


Despite its being issued nearly two years


ago, awareness for this rule among livestock haulers and the equine industry is nearly non- existent. For instance, FMCSA’s recent change to include livestock in its interpretation of the 150-air mile exemption for agricultural com- modities, a change that the industry strongly continued...


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