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Aidan Tydings and Brennan Wells. T e men’s team operates out of the Maryland Polo Club as well as Wells’ Marlan Farm in Freeland. T e Horse Board presents the award
The winning national men’s interscholastic polo team and coach receiving their Touch of Class Awards at the Maryland Polo Club
recently won 2017 national polo championships with its July and August Touch of Class Award. T e winning national women’s interscholastic polo team was comprised of coaches and team- mates from Garrison Forest School in Reister- stown. T e award was presented at the Maryland Horse Council barbecue on September 9 at the Congressional Polo Club in Poolesville to Cindy Halle, coach; Kaycie Campbell, assistant coach; team members Lila Bennett, Hannah Reynolds, Olivia Reynolds and Emily Wiley. T e next day the winning national men’s interscholastic polo team received the award following a game at the Maryland Polo Club grounds at Ladew Gardens in Monkton. T e award was presented to Kelly Wells, coach; team members Jack McLean, Parker Pearce,
monthly to Marylanders and their horses who achieve national and international recognition. T e award began in Septem- ber 2011 named in honor of the Mary- land-bred Olympic Grand Prix jumper champion Touch of Class. Since then over 200 Maryland people and horses from 26 diff erent equestrian disciplines have been honored.
Harford Honors Jim McKay T e late sports
broadcaster Jim
McKay will be award- ed posthumously the 2017 Robert and Anne Heighe Award for Ex- cellence in Equestrian Journalism on November 10. T e Hays-Heighe House, at the Harford Community College in Bel Air, presents the award. T e Hays-Heighe House is a public historic site that was the cen- terpiece of the Heighe’s 225-acre Prospect Hill Farm, where they bred
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Our top like-getting photo was sent to us by Karen Fulton of Woodge and Grace Fulton in front of Burghley House in England, where Woodge was competing. With the #DuttaFHI and #WIHS coming up, follow us on Instagram, so you don’t miss a minute of the action!
The Importance of a Hashtag For those who might be new to social
media, the hashtag might seem like just a lot of unnecessary extra work. But in real- ity, hashtags (a.k.a. the # symbol proceed- ing a word or phrase) are important to the social media world. For example, say you are on Twitter and want to see all the posts related to Fair Hill International or Washington Inter- national Horse Show… simply search for #DuttaFHI or #WIHS and hundreds of posts from all over the world will show up. Cool, huh! But why care? Hashtags con- nect social media users just as much tag- ging them in a post! Want to know who else might be tailgating at FHI or attend- ing barn night at WIHS, post a tweet and
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and trained T oroughbred racehorses from 1921 until 1953. “T e Wider World of Jim McKay: Celebrat- ing His Life and His Work” is an exhibit on McKay’s life that will be open before the recep- tion and awards presentation. McKay’s family will be accepting the award while Bill Boniface, a friend of McKay, will share remarks. McKay began covering racing here in Mary- land in November of 1947 with live reporting from Pimlico Racecourse. From there, McKay’s love aff air with racing began and he covered several Triple Crown races for ABC as well as heading to England to cover bigger races such as the Royal Ascot.
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WHERE’S WANDA? Want to win two VIP tickets to this year’s Washington International Horse Show or Fair Hill Internation- al? Be the fi rst person to fi nd Wanda hidden in the October issue and you can be a winner! You must CALL T e Equiery at 1-800-244-9580 between 9am and 5pm by October 9 with the page number that Wanda is hidden on to have tickets mailed to you. And no, this page does not count! First call wins! Happy hunting.
PS - General admission tickets will be give out on T e Equiery’s social media so make sure you follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!
fi nd out! And although hashtags got their start in 2007 with Twitter, recently
Facebook and Instagram have jumped on board. So, when you are walk- ing the concourse at the Capital One Arena (formerly Verizon Center) or trekking across the cross-country course at Fair Hill this October, snap a pic, post and don’t forget to use #DuttaFHI or #WIHS… add #Equiery and we will try and repost, retweet and share! See you there in person and online!
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