NEWS & VIEWS continued


championship show held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lex- ington,


KY. Zellie


rides for Bridgewater College and became the third rider in the school’s history to win an IHSA national title. Steeplechase jockey


James Stierhoff has been elected to the Maryland State Fair & Agricultural Society Inc.’s board of direc- tors. James is a portfo- lio manager for Brown Advisory,


the Balti-


New MD TB Career Program Students Announced


T e Maryland Horse


Maryland Polo - USPC National Champions!


more-based investment management company, and has been an active member of Business Vol- unteers Maryland’s GIVE program, the Living Classroom Foundation’s Rising Star program and currently serves as a director of the Mary- land Steeplechase Association. Congratulations to the Maryland Polo team of Aidan Tydings, Parker Pearce, Brennan Wells and Jack McLean, who won the 2017 USPC Open Interscholastic National Cham- pionship. T e team is coached by Kelly Wells. On May 11, Boonsboro foxchaser Joe Michael


received a 2017 Leadership in Law award from T e Daily Record for his work as the deputy state’s attorney for Washington County.


Getting social with The Equiery! continued...


wishing Irish War Cry good luck at the Derby in third. T e fourth top post was by us on May 17, announcing that spectators still had time to meet the Budweiser Clydesdales during Sunrise Tours at Pimlico. And fi nally, rounding out the top fi ve tweets of May, was our post on May 9 introducing Sunrise Tour guide and polo player Posey Obrecht.


Instagram (@equiery)


May was exhausting, and we chron-


icled it on Instagram! Steeplechase races, dressage, horse shows, eventing, parties, oh, and Preakness week! T e most popular Equiery photo of the month was a picture of Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming in the paddock before the Preakness. You felt the love for him, but the Preakness would not be his race. Other top like-getting original photos included Katherine Rizzo’s photo of the fi nish of the Maryland Hunt Cup, with Derwins Prospector and Drift Society battling it out to the fi nish line, and a tv screen grab of Savannah Fulton entering the dressage arena at her fi rst Rolex Kentucky T ree-Day Event CCI****. Little kids were also favorites this month, with lots of likes for a photo


of the start of the Sippy Cup Race at the Howard County Cup Races, a photo of Courtney and Ellie Wiggs with their ribbons from the lead- line divisions at the St. Timothy’s Spring Fling Horse show, and Pam Parker’s photo of Aidan Burns riding Carolyn Del Grosso’s Agent 86 at the Southwind Farm PVDA Schooling Show. May wasn’t just about competing, though. We got


to rub elbows with some of the movers and shakers in Baltimore politics when we attended a reception for the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) hosted by Frank Boston. Videos also received lots of looks and likes. Keeping with the kid theme, the most popular video was of the fi nish of the Small & Medium Pony race at the How- ard County Cup Races. Over at Pimlico, T e Equiery’s intern Sara Gordon had a prime spot to catch the fi n- ish of the Preakness, so if you haven’t already seen how close the race was, take a look at Sara’s video on our


Instagram feed. We used the Repost app this month a few times for good measure.


Garnering the top spot again was Savannah Fulton in a repost of USEv- enting’s second jog photo. We also reposted a gorgeous Laurel Park Rac- ing photo (shot by Jim McCue) of horses breaking from the starting gate under a double rainbow at Laurel.


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Industry Foundation an- nounced on May 11 the ros- ter for its fi rst-ever Mary- land T oroughbred Career Program and making the list is former Equiery intern Sara Gordon! Sara, who attends Virginia Tech, is one of six participants for this year’s class. University of Mary- land students Katie Brooks, Megan George and Tabitha Gregory have also made the list as well as John Piassek of


Loyola University Maryland and Sidney Boots of the University of Kentucky. “We were thrilled to receive a large number of applications from high-quality candidates,” said MTCP coordinator Jordyn Egan. “Nar- rowing the group down to six was diffi cult.” T e students will be visiting several locations within the Maryland T oroughbred industry in June including Laurel Park, the Fair Hill Training Center and Sagamore Farm. Look for a story from Sara on her experience as part of the program’s inaugural class in a future issue!


T e Equus Film Festival Tour stopped in Maryland during May, screening 19 fi lms over three days at Clark’s Elioak Farm in Howard County. A variety of local horse people attended the fi lmmaker’s reception on Saturday evening.


The Maryland horse industry’s offi cial greeter, Ross Peddicord (executive direc- tor of the Maryland Horse Industry Board), at the Maryland stop of the Equus Film Fes- tival, pictured here with Elisabeth Salchow, Martha Ann Clark, Nora Crist, JR Vese, George Klopf and Ann James.


Martha Clark shows natural horsemanship trainer and fi lmmaker Bruce Anderson (subject of the fi lm “The Edge”), fi lmmaker Julianne Neal and EQUUS fi lm festival or- ganizer Lisa Diersen around Ellicott City.


USPA’s Mo Petkov


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