COMINGS & GOINGS
Dr. Carolyn Karlson, Ph.D, has been elected chair of the Retired Racehorse Project’s board of directors. Sue Smith has been elected vice chair. Graham and Anita Motion have also been recently elected to the RRP board.
Valerie Connelly is retiring from the Maryland Farm Bureau.
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EDITOR@EQUIERY.COM KUDOS Congratulations to…
…Former Marylander Sasscer Hill, who won the $10,000 Ryan Best in Racing Literature Book Award this spring;
…Grayson Milliman, Alexandra Cooper and Olivia Wheatley for being awarded 2019 Foal Awards through T e Feather Fund;
...Event rider Ema Klugman (Clarksburg) for being selected for the inaugural Bromont CCI Rising Star program;
...Sophia McCoy of Hampstead on earning the 2019 USHJA Foundation Gochman Grant;
...April 2019 Equiery cover girl Olivia Brown who was the Reserve Champion Varsity Open Championship rider at the IEA Hunt Seat National fi nals in Ohio;
...jockey Trevor McCarthy and trainer
Claudio Gonzalez on claiming the individual meet titles for the Laurel Park winter meet.
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Maryland Will Miss...
T e legendary Louise Este Hollyday died on May 10 at the age of 92. She had a passion for raising and showing Welsh ponies and inspired many young riders over the years through her teaching both here in the U.S and in England. Hollyday has had such an impact on the Maryland equestrian community that she was rec- ognized for her achievements in 2005 as the Maryland Horse Council’s Horse Person of the Year and again in 2011 as a Local Lady Legend during Black-Eyed Susan Day at Pimlico. Known by generations of students as “Miss Louise”,
Hollyday knew the importance of teaching our youth not only how to ride correctly but proper horseman- ship. She specialized in beginner lesson programs, only children, no adults and no teens, ensuring that her work
provided the proper foundation. Many of her students went on to become instructors them- selves such as Betsy Firey, Streett Moore, Sally Shirley, and many others. Born in Baltimore, Hollyday grew up in Roland Park, surrounded by accomplished riders,
including but not limited to her mother, a local teacher, and her grandmother’s chauff eur, who ended up being her fi rst instructor. “Although she was a damn good horse woman, I didn’t learn from my mother,” Hollyday told T e Equiery in 2005. “It is almost impossible for mothers to teach their kids to ride. Always has been.” In a nutshell, we have her business plan! During WWII, Hollyday went to Warrenton Country School where she discovered her
knack for teaching beginners when she was asked to serve as a substitute instructor for the school’s riding program. While in school, Hollyday aspired to be a vet, but as was typical of the time, Warrenton did not off er science classes, which she needed to get into a veteri- nary assistant training program. Instead of moving onto veterinary school, Hollyday began teaching lessons from their family farm in Towson. With her mother, Hollyday began to collect a variety of crossbred ponies to use in the lesson program but they both soon decided that breeding their own mounts would be better. In 1950, they acquired the famed pony stallion Severn Chief. Chief was a good, reliable
sire and the Hollydays soon had a breeding business in addition to the lesson program… thus Ponies for Children, Inc., was founded. With a thriving business breeding and showing Welsh ponies (under the Cylynnen prefi x) and English-style Shetlands, Hollyday and her friend Pat Archer recognized the need for a unifying infl uence on the pony breeding business and, with the help of Humphrey Finney from the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, they founded the Maryland Pony Breed- ers, Inc., in 1953. Despite the fact that for 10 years Hollyday had been operating two successful horse busi- nesses, her father believed that that his daughter’s career would be more legitimate with “a piece of paper that actually said I was an instructor,” she had said. So off she went to England to earn her British Horse Society Association Instructor certifi cate, being one of the fi rst from the US to do so. Back in Maryland, Hollyday was able to fulfi ll a bit of the “vet” dream by serving as a vet
tech every Tuesday to Dr. I. W. Frock, one of the area’s most prominent veterinarians, and the regular farm vet for Alfred Gwyn Vanderbilt’s famed Sagamore Farm. After the deaths of her parents, Hollyday relocated her business to Hampstead. In the
1990s, deciding that it was time for her to scale back the size of her program, she made an arrangement with former student Sharon Schilling to take over the main house. Hollyday moved into the cottage and maintained her ponies in the older barn, while the Schillings built a their own barn on another part of the farm for their horses. Hollyday did not offi cially “retire” from teaching until 2010. Even after her death, Miss
Louise’s legacy will endure through the thousands of students she taught, and in their stu- dents and students’ students… because “a good education is a good education.”
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