McDonogh’s 98 Years of Riding Lessons, continued... Approximately 60 horses and ponies now live
on the property and are turned out on 40 acres of pasture, which includes 25 paddocks for pri- vate turn out. “I like the private turn out much better,” Moore said. “Te horses are calmer that way and no one is kicking anyone else.” Recently, a 50-stall
competition stabling building was added to the facility as well as an auxiliary supply building with a built-in manure pit and plenty of room for shavings and hay storage. “I designed all of this,” Moore said while giving a tour of the facil- ity. “It’s all covered but well-ventilated,” he add- ed. “And the extra stalls are used as a staging area before shows and also to quarantine horses when they return from Florida and other places.” Moore is the driving force behind the design of most of the facility, from the layout of plants and shrubbery to using recycled turf from the athletics field to make walkways from barns to
arenas which cuts down dust and dirt. “We also got a lot of alumni to donate funds by buying pavers with their names or favorite horses on them,” Moore said. Tese pavers are used in high traffic areas where people watch competi- tions and lessons, which again keeps the dust,
team. In addition, there is a physical education program through the school in which students get introduced to horses over a three-week mini program. “Tat’s how Jacob Pope first got inter- ested in riding,” Moore explained. “He was in third grade and told me much later in life that he watched me jump some big fences in a demonstra- tion and decided it was what he wanted to do too.” Pope is one of the
more recent McDonogh graduates who has gone on to national and in- ternational success. After earning many top hon- ors on the A-circuit with McDonogh,
including
Visitors to McDonogh’s stable can see the riding program’s history in the school’s mini mu- seum complete with photographs, uniforms and other memorabilia.
mud, and dirt to a minimum. Today, the riding program offers McDonogh students varsity and junior varsity athletic eques- trian teams as well as a middle school educational equestrian team and a middle school competition
MHSA’s Gittings Final, the Maclay Medal, and after being on a Nation’s Cup winning team and winning the USET Tal- ent Search, Moore set
Pope up as a working student at Heritage Farm in New York. Pope then went on to work for Lauren Hough in England before coming back to Maryland to ride for ESP Farm in Brookev- ille. Pope is now a successful professional rider
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