Who’s Who in the Maryland Horse Council, continued...
combined training, dressage, and foxchasing. She has been a member of MHC since 1991, and serves on the board of directors as a director-at- large representing the business membership. Crystal also serves as secre- tary for the Maryland Steeplechase Association and technical adviser to the Maryland Horse Industry Board.
Secretary: Valerie Ormond
Valerie retired as a U.S. Navy Captain and has since pursued interests in writing and with horses. In 2014, she founded her own business, Veteran Writing Services LLC, providing professional writ- ing, editing, and consulting services. Her two young adult novels, Believing In Horses, and Believing In Horses, Too, both received the Gold Medal in the Military Writers Society of America Book Awards, among other honors and awards. Valerie is a certi-
fi ed riding instructor with the Certifi ed Horsemanship Association, a member of the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association, and she competed in the National Capital Adult Equestrian League for nine years. She served on the Prince George’s County Equine Industry Task Force and chaired the Maryland Horse Council’s Save the Horse Farms Committee. Valerie and her husband, Jaime Navarro, also a retired Cap- tain, own and ride their three horses in a variety of disciplines.
Elected Member & Vice President- Elect: Steuart Pittman, Jr.
Steuart and his siblings are the eighth genera- tion of his family to own their 550-acre Dodon Farm in Davidsonville. For the past 15 years he has made his living there as a breeder, trainer and competitor in three-day eventing. Steuart was Maryland’s fi rst eventing instructor to be certifi ed by the U.S. Eventing Association and
he conducts clinics throughout the country at both private facilities and expos. He has competed through the Advanced level on his Maryland- bred T oroughbred stallion Salute T e Truth, who now stands at Dodon Farm. Steuart grew up riding with St. Margaret’s Pony Club and the Marlborough Hunt Club. He graduated from the University of Chi- cago and then spent eight years as a political and community organizer in Chicago, Des Moines and Washington, DC before returning to the farm and horses. He became actively involved with the Maryland Horse Council during the campaign for the Maryland Horse Park and found that it was a good use of the skills he had acquired in his career as an organizer. His most recent undertaking is the creation of the Retired Racehorse Training Project, an educational organization that seeks to increase demand for T oroughbred ex-racehorses.
Non-Voting Advisory Member: Bill Reightler
Bill is a licensed bloodstock agent and has dis- tinguished himself in the T oroughbred industry, with more than 35 years in the business. After training horses at Mid-Atlantic tracks for 10 years, Bill worked at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky for fi ve years in the training, broodmare and stud divisions. He then returned to Maryland
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to manage Ross Valley Farms, where he built up the farm and handled a top band of broodmares that included champions Heavenly Cause and Smart Angle. During his tenure at Ross Valley, he raised and prepped Houston (a $2.9 million sales yearling) and several stakes horses, includ- ing Two Punch. After fi ve years at Ross Valley, Bill accepted a manage- ment position at Chanceland Farm and helped establish it as a leading operation in the region. In 1999, Bill started the Bill Reightler Sales Agency. He has established himself as one of the leading sales and blood-
stock agents based in the Mid-Atlantic region. His accomplishments in- clude selling Declan’s Moon (2003 Two-Year-Old Champion), owning and racing stakes winner Pagan Moon, owning and selling Rockcide, half-sister to champion Funnycide, carrying in utero multiple stakes win- ner Rule. Bill is also an avid foxhunter and currently serves as the fi eld master of Mt. Carmel Hounds.
President: Jane Seigler A graduate of Brown University and Rutgers
University Law School, Jane completed a judicial clerkship with the DC Court of Appeals before entering private practice. After 13 years as an an- titrust and utility litigator with two major DC law fi rms, and then as government aff airs coun- sel with the Washington offi ce of a multinational corporation, Jane decided to devote herself full time to being the chief operating offi cer of Red-
demeade Farm, Inc., one of the largest lesson and boarding stables in Maryland. Now living and training at her own Dressage at Sundown, she teaches, rides, trains and competes in dressage through the FEI level. Jane served on the Potomac Valley Dressage Association Board of Direc- tors for nine years (including two as Chairman and two as Vice Presi- dent) and is a former member of Montgomery County’s Agricultural Advisory Committee. She has also served on the steering committee of the Maryland Horse Forums, and has been an organizer of MHC’s Busi- ness Seminars. Currently, Jane serves on MHC’s Business Network and Legislative Committees, as an Advisory Board Member of the Mary- land Fund for Horses, and as a member of the Advisory Council of the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center.
Elected Member: Judy Smith Judy has been involved in the horse industry,
especially in Maryland, most of her life. She has enjoyed foxchasing in MD and NC, competing in driving with her four-horse Percheron hitch, dressage, eventing and riding sidesaddle. Her ar- eas of business and organizational involvement include being a current MHC Director-at-Large for Farms, a Frederick County Equine Alliance
member and its representative to the MHC, founding member and secre- tary for the North Carolina Horse Council, former member of the PVDA Board of Directors, and a member of several other associations. Currently, Judy and her husband Tommy have a boarding operation on their Good Friday Farm in Ijamsville. Judy also owns and manages her retail store, Friday’s Horse Giftware. Previously, Judy worked as an equine vet tech for 11 years, and also operated a successful operation of breeding, foaling and starting young thoroughbreds for the track for clients.
Elected Member: Kathleen Tabor Kathleen is the sole practitioner of the Law
Offi ce of Kathleen J. P. Tabor, LLC, a proactive general civil practice with a special focus on ag- ricultural and equine businesses, activities, and ownership. Her practice has taken her all across the State of Maryland. In addition to her legal training, Kathleen is a trained mediator and col-
laborative practitioner. She also serves on the Maryland Horse Coun- cil’s Executive Committee and the advisory board of Maryland Fund for Horses, Inc. She is a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau, the American Horse Council, American College of Equine Attorneys and the American Agricultural Law Association. Kathleen is also a LEAD Maryland fellow. She currently serves as the Trade & Support Industries representative on the Maryland Horse Industry Board, appointed by the Governor in 2009.
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