OUT &ABOUT
DEC 2018
at AppyFest 2018 October 6-7 • Eldorado Farm, Mechanicsville • photos are courtesy of APPY FEST On the weekend of October 6-7, ten trainers took
part in the fi rst ever AppyFest, a competition for Ap- paloosas rescued from the Pilchard Farm seizure this past March. “T e idea started when Last Chance Animal Rescue contacted the Maryland Fund For Horses to help with 29 horses they took in from the Pilchard Farm seizure,” said Vicki Carson of Mary- land Fund For Horses. “As with most mass seizures, the goals were to fi rst rehabilitate the horses to good health, then address behavioral issues and training so that the horses become adoptable, and fi nally connect adoptable horses with appropriate potential adopters and then re-home these horses.” Carson and MFFH worked with LCAR to place some of these horses with approved trainers through- out the region with the goal to bring them back for a friendly competition so that the horses could then be adopted. “T e plan included raising funds with which to compensate the trainers,” Carson added. Nutrena Horse Feed joined MFFH and LCAR as the orga- nizing team behind Appy Fest.
Although the idea for the competition started with
LCAR, it was open to all the horses involved in the seizure, not just the ones at LCAR, and all rescues involved were invited to participate. “Sadly, no non- LCAR horses were entered in the show,” Carson ex- plained.
Come competition weekend, all horses entered
were required to participate in the unmounted class- es, which had specifi c requirements. More advanced under saddle classes were off ered for those horses ready for that sort of competition. Bob Ciri and Carol Spicknall, DVM, were on hand Saturday as judges, and Annmari Ingersoll and Elizabeth Farina were the judges on Sunday. “T e event was fabulous and exceeded everybody’s expectations in many ways,” said Ciri. “All the trainers who had taken a rescued Appaloosa horse from the Eastern Shore of Mary- land did an incredibly fantastic job in a very short time.” T e overall Grand Champion of the weekend was
10-year-old Christian Embry and the mare Nya. “T is was not a surprise to anyone as he and his little mare Nya were an amazing pair,” said Carson. By the end of the weekend, 14 horses had been ad- opted, and six more horses were being placed into the second round of the competition, set for sometime in the spring of 2019. “I hope that many of the wonder- ful rescue farms in our area will be inspired and come next year with any of their rescue horses so that we can increase the number of adoptions,” Ciri added. Carson said the group intends to speak with rescues throughout the region over the winter and hopes to expand the competition to include all breeds from rescues throughout Maryland.
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Ten-year-old Christian Embry came all the way from Morgantown, KY to win the overall Grand Champion award with the mare Nya. The pair are pictured left in the in-hand class and on the right with his brother DJ, who also had a horse entered in the competition.
AppyFest trainers, from left: Jennifer Yamnicky of Waldorf with Amaretta, Veronica Green-Gott of Ellicott City with Blossom, Nicki Carson of Union Bridge with Maggie
Vicki Carson of the Maryland Fund For Horses with Saturday’s AppyFest judges Carol Spicknall, DVM and Bob Ciri
Elizabeth Schneider of Huntingtown showing off Valor’s dressage skills.
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