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NEWS & VIEWS continued


with horses (and his mother was a founder of the Howard County Hunt Club). T e Maryland Horse Council is supporting this bill, and on Mon. Feb. 20 it was given a favorable report in its committee.


SB254/HB1174 Tax Incentive for Conserva- tion Easements SYNOPSIS: Providing a subtraction modifi - cation under the Maryland income tax for the fi rst $250,000 in proceeds from the sale of a perpetual conservation easement on real prop- erty in the state. Comment: In general, T e Equiery is supportive of incentives to preserve open space; MHC is monitor- ing. T e House version will have a hearing in March.


Natural Resources


SB708/HB 977 Funding for Fair Hill SYNOPSIS: Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the pro- ceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Di- rectors of T e National Steeplechase Founda- tion, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, site improvement, and capital equipping of the Fair Hill Race Course, located in Cecil Coun- ty; providing for disbursement of the loan pro- ceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund. Comment: Although earmarked for NSF, the im-


provements would benefi t aspects used by a variety of equestrian organizations and would greatly en- hance Maryland’s bid to be the second U.S. host of an FEI 4-star event.


designed Shared Use of Natural Resources


MHC watchdogs a variety of bills that per- tain to the shared use of natural resources, in- cluding but not limited to those bills that ex- pand fi rearm deer hunting. MHC works with a variety of hunting groups and with the De- partment of Natural Resources to fi nd ways to reduce the deer herd (including, but not limited to, increasing managed sharpshooter hunts, marketing hunting and other lethal methods with fi rearms) in an eff ort to ensure fair shared use of resources by all users. Some of this year’s bills include: • SB 629/HB 312 - Kent County Sunday Hunting • SB 953/HB 1111 - Eastern Shore – Extend- ing Deer Firearm Season. • SB 954/ HB 1201 - Talbot County use of rifl es under DMPs. • HB 894 - Wicomico Sunday hunting • HB 310 - Montgomery County Sunday Hunting • HB 788/SB 844 - Allowing deer hunting on all Sundays under a deer management permit.


Racing Related


SB170/HB 150 Racing Commission and In- ternational Race Cost Shifting SYNOPSIS: Moves $3 million out of racing’s purse dedication account to fund the Racing Commission and the International T orough- bred Race. Comment: Currently the Racing Commission is funded via the general funds. Governor Hogan’s


Getting social with The Equiery! continued... digital product,


exclusively for our print ad- vertising customers, not only reaches our database of over 30,000 for Equiery readers, advertisers, and friends, but also our audience of 7,200 (and growing) Facebook fol- lowers.


Twitter (@equiery) Although our Equiery


twitter posts were varied in February with everything from foals being born to legislative updates, it seems T oroughbred racing was the most popular topic on Twitter last month with our top re-tweets being about the sport of kings. By far the most loved and re-tweeted post from February was the “Happy Birthday American Pharoah” tweet by@T eNYRA on February 2. A @ GettySport photo of horses racing on snow covered turf, tweeted by @ Ascot on February 20, was the second most popular tweet of the month. Rounding out the top three was the February 16 tweet by @ABRLive reporting that one of Penny Chenery’s dresses is among the items up for grabs in a Triple Crown memorabilia auction.


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budget recommends the shift in funding, undoubt- edly as a way to be more fi scally prudent about the general funds. In general, T e Equiery has found the Governor to be a prudent fi scal manager. Un- derstandably, however, this proposal is causing a great deal of uproar in the racing community. One of the arguments against using racing money to fund the Racing Commission is that racing is regulated by the state, and thus is should be the state that funds the activity. To learn more about the is- sue, see the article on equiery.com by Frank Vespe.


SB 178/HB 606 Bowie Race Course - State Purchase or Condemnation SYNOPSIS: Authorizing the state to acquire, by purchase or condemnation for public use with just compensation, private property relat- ing to the Bowie Race Course Training Center if the owner of the Bowie Race Course Train- ing Center does not meet specifi ed require- ments of law; and requiring that all proceed- ings for condemnation for public use or private property as authorized under this Act are to be in accordance with specifi ed provisions of law and specifi ed rules of procedure. Comment: T e Equiery is always leery of any bill that increases the ability of government to seize private land; the Maryland Horse Council did not support the bill, but did testify that, no matter what, it would like to see at least some portion of the property be maintained for some sort of equine- related use. T e Maryland Jockey Club testifi ed against the bill. Both versions have had hearings,


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Instagram (@equiery) February was an eclectic month on Instagram! Our two most


popular posts were the wildly divergent repost of an Andrew Ryback photo of an adorable child during the Florida WEF series and the repost of a National Geographic photo of a Spanish cave drawing of a horse. You can’t go wrong with kids and equine art, especially when the art is 14,000 years old. Rounding out February was a photo in anticipation of the spring steeplechase season. T e Maryland Governor’s Cup Series is fast approaching and we’re looking forward to spending weekends watch- ing one of Maryland’s oldest sports. If you have a photo you’d like to see on our Instagram feed, forward it to editor@equiery.com.


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