Letter from MHC’s Presidents, continued...


you Wish. When she is not riding, teaching riding, driving a carriage, or visiting the local winery, Shoshanna is performs as an opera singer. Stephen Fulton is a farrier, eventer, and co-owner of Full Moon Farm, a lesson and training facility and horse show venue in Finksburg in Bal- timore County. He has a B.A. in Equine Studies from Salem University in West Virginia and a Horse Master’s certificate from West Virginia’s Meredith Manor International Equestrian Centre. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma’s Farrier College and is certified by the International Asso- ciation of Professional Farriers. An active competitor, Stephen graced the cover of the February 2022 Equiery to celebrate his being named the U.S. Eventing Association’s 2021 Beginner Novice Master Rider Champion and the Beginner Novice Master Amateur Rider Champion. Claire Lacey is the President of the My Lady’s Manor Driving Club, an association that promotes “the owning, training, driving, and exhibit- ing of all breeds of equines.” She is a past President of the Potomac Val- ley Dressage Association. Claire has been teaching, judging and showing for over 20 years with experience fox chasing and in hunters/jumpers, dressage, side saddle, racing, driving, and producing young horses. Origi- nally from England, Claire is a British Horse Society Trained Instructor. She has instructed for Pony Club at rallies and camps through “B” Level in show jumping, dressage, and general horsemanship. She also taught at the Riding for the Disabled Group in England. Carolyn Mackintosh is the owner of Loch Moy Farm in Frederick


County, a year-round venue that hosts almost 50 days of competition a year, including the Maryland International Horse Trials CCCI-1*/2*/3* and the upcoming Maryland International CCI-4*-S. She is also the President of the Maryland International Equestrian Foundation. Caro- lyn began turning the Loch Moy property from a dairy farm into an eventing venue in 2006, and the U.S. Eventing Association now de- scribes it as a “year-round playground for eventers.” Corinne Pouliquen owns and manages Park Overlook Farm in Mont-


gomery County, which provides pony rides and on-farm parties, includ- ing a petting zoo and games. She has been the chair of MHC’s Mem- bership Committee since 2021. Corinne is a registered patent attorney with 20 years of patent prosecution and transactional experience in the chemical, biotechnology and mechanical arts. She has also worked as in-house IP Counsel for a veterinary pharmaceutical company and as patent counsel for a biotechnology company. Before she became a lawyer, Corinne worked in scientific research both as a Veterinary Research As- sistant and as an Analytical Chemist.


Jane Seigler is a past President of the Maryland Horse Council, the


current Co-Chair of the Government Relations Committee, the Presi- dent of the Maryland Horse Council PAC, and a member of the Board of the Maryland Horse Council Foundation. She is also U.S. Dressage Association silver medalist and frequent judge at schooling dressage shows and the dressage phase of local horse trials. Jane is a graduate of Brown University and Rutgers University Law School. After 13 years as an antitrust and utility litigator, Jane devoted herself full time to being the chief operating officer of the riding school Reddemeade Farm, Inc. She lives and trains out of her own Dressage at Sundown in Laytonsville. Carolann Sharpe is the Chair of the Maryland Horse Council’s Trails


Stewardship Committee and the President of Trail Riders of Today (TROT). She is an avid trail rider, and she and her husband own a farm on the Baltimore/Carroll County border. Carolann earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from Loyola University, a Master’s Degree in Edu- cation from Notre Dame of Maryland University, and has devoted her career to teaching in the public schools. Alicia Schwartzbeck is the Treasurer of the Maryland State Quarter Horse Association and an accountant at J. Allen & Associates, which is a firm that specializes in equestrian business. She is also the book- keeper for T & M Custom Home Builders as well as for Sass magazine, a women’s lifestyle magazine serving Frederick and Western Maryland. Seth Johnson grew up riding Western and converted to English riding as an adult. He has an MBA in Finance & International Business/Supply Chain Management from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and lives in Hanover in Anne Arundel County. Seth oversees Amazon’s Canadian Furniture, Mattress, and Area Rug busi- ness. He currently serves on MHC’s Membership Committee. Chad Walker was active in 4H and the Future Farmers of America


(FFA) as a child, showing beef cattle, horses, and chickens. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science from West Virginia University and works as a small animal veterinary technician at Boonsboro Hospi- tal. Chad is an aficionado of western pleasure and trails, gaming (poles, barrels, flag, and dash), and driving Belgian Drafts. He has been the Secretary and Treasurer of the National Pike Festival and James Shaull Wagon Train Foundation since 2019 and the Treasurer of the Morgan County Saddle Club in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, since 2017. He is a member of Maryland Horse Industry Board’s new Western Riding Committee.


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June 24-25, 2023 at the


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