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studies, tests and design work necessary to start work on racecourse improvements, including reconfi guration of racetrack turns, irrigation of the course, a new grandstand and a tunnel under Route 273.
International Import/Export Facil- ity for the Mid-Atlantic?
Good news for both short listed 4* sites (Fair Hill and Great Meadow)! Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia (not far from Maryland) is exploring the establishment of a large-animal import/export quarantine facility - which would make it much easier for inter- national riders to ship their horses to competi- tions in the mid-Atlantic area. If this sounds familiar to you, it should. Approximately ten years ago, the State of Maryland considered doing the same at Baltimore-Washington In- ternational Airport. Despite a 2008 feasibility study that indicated that there was a need for a Mid-Atlantic facility, the Maryland concept stalled in 2009. Now Virginia is running with it. As the need for a Mid-Atlantic facility still
exists, if the powers that be in Virginia can pull it off , an animal import/export facility at Dull- es will still benefi t Maryland (just not quite as much as it would have if located at BWI). Being used as a conceptual model for a Dull-
es Airport facility is the T e ARK at JFK, the new $50 million animal import/export center opening this month in New York. T e privately- owned animal cargo terminal contains a US-
Twitter (@equiery) T e twitter world
was chirping about the Maryland Horse World Expo during the week of January 16 with most of our top tweets being about the show. From previews to live posts, Expo had a strong presence on social media in January.
Also
getting a lot of hearts this past month was the Equi- ery News tweet on January 4 congratulating fl at track trainer Mary Eppler on being the fi rst female to win a trainer’s title at Laurel Park.
Instagram (@equiery) January on Instagram was pretty much devoted to all things Horse
World Expo! What a great weekend! Our most viewed and liked post was of Melanie Ferrio-Wise and Vlad doing bridless jumping (we think she did it at 5’!) during the Equitainment demonstration with Angelo Telatin.
DA-licensed, full-service 24-hour airport-based quarantine facility for all large and small ani- mals, livestock and pets, domesticated and wild.
$30,000 awarded to 23 Maryland horse groups
A total of $30,000 in grants is being distrib-
uted by the Maryland Horse Industry Board (an ag commodity board housed at the Mary- land Department of Agriculture) for 23 proj- ects ranging from training to help animal con- trol workers in equine welfare cases, enhancing facilities for inner city children to learn about horses and horsemanship, to restoring historic Maryland horse racing fi lms from the 1920s that have never been seen by the public. Nearly half of this year’s grantees received funding for projects related to 4-H, Pony Club and thera- peutic horsemanship programs. (Scroll down to see who is getting a grant.) Funding for these grants and the Maryland Horse Industry Board is provided by the Mary- land Feed Fund, which collects $6 on every ton of horse feed sold in the state. T e funding is collected through the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Weights & Measures Section (these are the folks who make sure that when you purchase a gallon of milk or gas it is a true gallon, or that 50-lb. bag of horse feed is 50 pounds). Projects are evaluated based on their value to the industry, degree of industry promotion, size and scope of activity, fi nancial need, po- tential for matching funds, and overall quality of the written presentation. Grants are capped
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Another popular post from Expo was of our Photo Booth, with giant cop- ies of Equiery covers. We were even tagged while Expo was going on, and it was so exciting to see what our followers were doing. T ank you colum- biahorsecenter and fi neideafarm for commenting on our photos - we loved hearing from you. If you took a photo in our booth, send it to us or tag us so that we can see! Non-Expo popular posts included a photo of Mary Eppler, who became
the fi rst female trainer to win a Trainer’s title at Laurel Park. Another at- tention getting photo was one of some trail riders overlooking the Wash- ington Suburban Sanitary Com- missionTrails’ watershed. We miss trail riding too!
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at $3,000 in order to award funds to as many groups as possible. Grant recipients are re- quired to fi le a project report with the board detailing how the money was used. If they do not fi le a project report, they are ineligible for future grants. T e Maryland Horse Industry Board was es- tablished in 1998 to promote and develop the equine industry in Maryland. Since the fund was established in 2002, MHIB has awarded over $400,000 in grants to over 300 projects. For more information about the grants pro- gram and how you can apply, see
equiery.com. • Days End Farm Horse Rescue: $3,000 To develop training materials to educate offi cials and professional animal workers involved with investigations and impoundment in cases of potential neglect and/or abuse. • Arabber Preservation Society: $3,000 For the creation of an equine demonstration and education area at the Arabber Center in Bal- timore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood; project to include fencing to protect the horses. • Harford County Historical Society: $3,000 For the restoration and the transfer to modern media of 18 reels of home movies shot in Mary- land at iconic T oroughbred locations, as well as of great horses such as Man O’War and Durbar II; fi lms will then be accessible to the public. • Horse-N-Around 4-H Club: $2,000 For the acquisition of wireless buzzers for 4-H Horse Bowl practice and the acquisition of a horse learning lab kit.
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