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• Anne Arundel County Fair: $2,000 For up- grades to improve the safety and functionality of the show announcer stand. • Mid-Atlantic Equitation Festival: $2,000 To expand the Maryland-based scholarship op- portunities within the Mid-Atlantic organiza- tion via activities at the Prince George’s Eques- trian Center. • Trail Riders of Today: $1,775 To have a pro- fessionally designed interactive booth that will allow visitors to virtually explore trails, maneuver obstacles, understand threats to trail sustainabil- ity and to learn how new trails are created. • Community Media Center of Carroll Coun- ty: $1,500 Production of a 10-minute infor- mation video (along with two-minute and one- minute highlight reels) to promote and develop sponsorship for the 4-H T erapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County. • USPC NEWCO Seneca Valley Pony Club: $1,381 to create a MHIB-branded stadium jump. • Maryland Eventing Team: $1,304 To pur- chase Maryland Terrapin branded
equipment such as team stall guards, dressage and jumping pads, polo shirts, browbands and a pop-up tent to promote the University of Maryland. • LEAD MD Foundation: $1,000 To under- write the equine education segment of this all- ag program. • Maryland Agriculture Resource Council: $1,000 To purchase a model horse, and com- mission an artist to paint the internal skeleton and organs of the horse. • Circle of Hope T erapeutic Riding: $1,000 For a fi eld trip for the patients and families at Children’s Inn of the National Institutes of Health to visit a horse farm in Maryland. • Maryland Horse Council: $1,000 For the acquisition of grassroots lobbying software “Voter Voice.” • Greenwell Foundation, Inc./T erapeutic Riding Program: $1,000 To develop a map of the 650-acre campus in order to be able to ex- pand programming and develop new opportu- nities to access riding. • Potomac Pony Club: $700 For a new website and promotional materials to help recruit new members. • Fair Hill NRMA (Louisa Emerick): $700 For the printing and distribution of carriage trail maps on waterproof/tearproof paper. • Tuckahoe Pony Club: $550 To help host a Daniel Stewart clinic at a reduced rate for members and the public. • T e Children’s Home, Inc. of Baltimore: $750 For a fi eld trip to a horse farm. • T erapeutic & Recreational Riding Center, Inc.: $450 For the acquisition of special hel- mets to suit riders of diff ering abilities. • Harford County 4-H Horse Council: $400 To acquire materials to help prep members for Horse Bowls and Horse Judging and Hippol-
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On December 8, 2016, Talbot Special Rid- ers (TSR) had a ribbon cutting for their new location at Timber Grove Farm in Easton, Maryland. Pictured are Kim Hopkins, TSR Executive Director and Head Instructor; Ann Jacobs, Caroline County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director; Mary Lynn Hsu, TSP rider; and representing Gover- nor Larry Hogan, John Brennan, Assistant Secretary of the Maryland Department of Disabilities. TSP was established in 1981; the new facility will allow it to expand its programs. (Photo by Greg Sharp)
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ogy competitions. • John Carroll High School Capstone Project/ Second Chances Save Lives Benefi t Horse Show: $400 To hire a judge for a benefi t horse show to help rescue horses, which will serve as the capstone project for three students. Any proceeds will go to local horse rescues. • Pony Express 4-H Club: $370 To acquire sagittal cross-sections of equine fore and hind legs for equine anatomy and ailment education.
Let The Games Begin!
Bills to Watch T e 437th session of the General Assembly of
Maryland (“the legislature”) opened on Wed., Jan. 11, 2017 with a roaring start, both political sides vowing that the gloves have come off . T e mad 90-day dash has begun, and we can expect to see approximately 2,000 bills fi led before the session adjourns for the year on April 10. As we put this issue to press, it is still quite
early in the game, but below is the list of bills that are on the radar so far, per the Maryland Horse Council. We will keep you updated, in these pages and on
equiery.com, when there is something compelling to report. · HB 16 would designate the Saturday of the Belmont Stakes as “Maryland Equestrian Day.” · HB 21/SB 52 would allow tax fi lers to exclude the value of their Olympic medals from their taxable state income, which would be in accor- dance with the federal rules. · HB 109/SB102 would repeal the requirement in St. Mary’s County that joint fence farms be built to certain specifi c standards, and repealing the requirement that neighboring farmers must maintain joint fencing. · HB 155 would make it more diffi cult to ter- minate MD Ag Land Preservation Foundation easements fi led prior to 2004. · HB187/SB103 would repeal a prohibition against trapping or shooting fox. T e repeal would also include a prohibition against shoot- ing hounds in pursuit of fox. · HB 216/SB 269 is a type of “Good Samaritan” bill that would grant vets who are assisting at the scene of an emergency immunity from civil
liability. · SB 57 would extend the tax credit for farm- registered vehicles. · SB 80 would ramp up the penalties for those convicted of animal abuse when it involves 10 or more animals, from a misdemeanor level to a felony level. · SB 178 would allow the state to purchase or otherwise acquire the track if the track owner ceases to use it for T oroughbred racehorses. · HB 171/SB99 is a composting bill that could increase opportunities for the composting of horse manure.
Maryland’s Senator Tydings Honored Maryland resident and former U.S. Sena-
tor Joseph Tydings has been recognized by the Humane Society of the United States as the 2016 Humane Horseman of the Year. T e HSUS selected Tydings for the award
primarily because of his dedication to protect- ing horses from the practice of soring, the in- tentional infl iction of pain to a horse’s limbs to produce an exaggerated, artifi cial gait known as the “big lick.” After learning about soring in the late 1960s, Sen. Tydings introduced and co- sponsored the Horse Protection Act to ban the practice, which was enacted and signed into law in 1970. T e situation improved somewhat, but soring continued. In recent years, Tydings has supported the
new USDA rules and new legislative eff orts to strengthen the agency’s regulations under the Horse Protection Act by ending a failed indus- try self-policing scheme and banning the use of devices integral to soring. Tydings also contin- ues to support the passage of the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act, federal legislation that would permanently codify these changes into law, increase penalties for soring and make the underlying act of soring illegal. Marty Irby, senior director of equine protec- tion for HSUS, said: “Senator Tydings is a true hero, passionate horseman and dedicated pub- lic servant who has spent close to fi ve decades
working to save Tennessee Walking Horses and continued...
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