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Letter from the Publisher


YOUR MARYLAND HORSE COUNCIL PUBLICATION


From the President By Neil Agate, Maryland Horse Council President


Recently the Maryland Equine Transition Service (METS) released


its Annual Report for 2020. As its last year of a three-year grant from T e Right Horse Initiative and the Arnall Family Foundation, 2020 was supposed to be a breakout year for the program as two large events were planned to jumpstart fundraising and introduce the program to a much larger audience and insure the program’s sustainability. As many of you will recall, METS began as a result of the Maryland Horse Council’s vocal support of the SAFE Act, which aimed to ban shipping horses to Mexico and Canada for slaughter. We realized that if the act were passed, there would be a large number of horses that would need to be taken care of in other ways. Over several months in 2017, MHC and our partners looked at many ways we might be able to help those horses in Maryland. T ese included setting up our own rescues, supporting existing rescues and many others alternatives. We elected to set up METS as a single resource for anyone in the state of Maryland who, for whatever reason, could no longer keep their horse (or horses). Not only did this structure allow us to quickly scale up to support the whole state, but also complemented our existing network of horse rescues in Maryland. In early 2018, we were fortunate to receive a grant from T e Right Horse Initiative/Arnall Family Foundation to support the creation of METS and cover our operating expenses for the fi rst three years. We are now nearing the end of the grant funding and as a community, we need to determine if METS will just be a three year fl ash in the pan or if it can be sustained through support of the Maryland horse community. In the last the three years, METS has helped transition over 200 horses


to new homes. While not all of these horses were in immediate danger of ending up in inhumane situations, they all had the potential of having


In April, T e Maryland Fund For Horses (MFFH) and METS banded together to assist horse owners throughout the state aff ectedby the COVID-19 economic crisis. T e MFFH and METS


collaboration was to provide an expanded safety net geared toward keepingas many horses as possible out of danger during this challenging time.


Neil Agate, MHC President / MHCF Board member, meeting with Dr. Chris Smith, DVM of Foxhall Equine to discuss METS and talk about ways that the Maryland horse community can sustainably support METS moving forward.


much worse outcomes than they did through METS support. In 2020, the management of METS was transitioned to the new MHC


Foundation, a 501(c)3 non profi t organization that will allow all dona- tions to be tax deductible. We are quickly approaching a time when we will have to make a deci-


sion on whether to continue METS beyond the middle of 2021. I feel it would be a tragic loss to the Maryland horse community if we are not able to sustainably fund the program. It has been a huge success in every way but fund raising. We have had discussions with neighboring regions about expanding the program which would increase our network reach as well as our potential funding opportunities. We all love our horses and I know we all feel that we will not desert our horses as they get older or as our lives change as we get older. However these issues often require fi nding our horses new homes and once they leave our ownership we usually have very little control or visibility into their future care. T is is the reason to fund METS and keep it going. To have a program like METS as a resource for future owners of our horses that can insure they have the best chances of avoiding bad situations is an invaluable resource for our Maryland horse community. Please read the one page summary of the METS Annual Report on


page 6 of this issue and the full report on the METS website at https:// www.mdequinetransition.org. If you are able to support the program fi nancially or have ideas and sug-


gestions on keeping METS functioning please reach out to our METS Development Offi cer, Jessica Avila-Franco at jessica@mdequinetransi- tion.org or 202-258-2226.


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