STORK REPORT


BRIDAL PATHS


Congratulations to jockey Sheldon Russell and trainer Brittany Trimble on their August 26 wedding.


Kenneth Berra Vas was born to Irina and Joey Berra of Burtonsville on July 30.


Wakem Ryker Snively was born to Blair and Bryan Snively of Taneytown on August 30.


Maryland Will Miss...


Nancy Lee Boyce of Hunt Valley died on July 18 at the age of 95. A schoolteacher and artist, Boyce is best known for being a cartoonist and columnist for the Maryland Horse magazine, now known as Mid-Atlantic T oroughbred. In her columns Hapless Hard Scramble and Confi dentially Speaking, Boyce commented on the political and social issues of the time through various cartoon horse characters. She also covered steeplechase racing in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania for the magazine. Boyce was born and raised on Mill Farm in Brooklandville. She graduated from the Bryn Mawr School in 1941 and earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Smith College in Massachusetts before marrying Maryland horse breeder and trainer Lambert Gittings Boyce. Together they bred and raised T or- oughbreds at their farms in Brooklandville and Glen Arm. Boyce was also the co-founder of the Long Green Valley Association, a land conservation group that helped preserve Hunt Valley from development.


Benjamin “Winfi eld” Meekins of Balti-


more, died on July 17 at the age of 85. Meekins was a life-long Arabber in Baltimore City and the co-founder of the Arabber Preservation Society. He also served on the advisory board for the documentary “We Are Arabbers.”


Larry Paul Burrier of Frederick died on Au- gust 2. He was 73. Burrier was a self employed


COMINGS & GOINGS


A fond farewell to Shelly Ingram of Montgomery County Soil Conservation District who has moved to the west coast to manage a large Morgan farm.


dairy farmer for 23 years before working for the Farmer’s Cooperative Association as a feed truck delivery driver for the past 21 years.


Farrier, horseman, cowboy and foxhunter


William E. “Billy” Streaker died on August 10 at the age of 82 from complications related to liposarcoma.


by Crystal Pickett Billy was a horseman’s


horseman. Didn’t matter the hat, the boots, the saddle or the reins. Billy was a cowboy; he could rope, rein – do it all – and he did, including sev- eral years of riding out west, after farrier school at Califor- nia Polytech, riding through Nevada and California with best pal and future legendary trainer Ray Hunt, and he con- tinued to ranch out west, even after he returned to Maryland. Billy was a foxhunter, grew up hunting with the Howard County Hounds, whipped-in and eventually hunted all over the mid-Atlantic. Billy also showed Arabians and Appaloosas.


fi eld hunters and show horses. And through it all, he shod. A blacksmith like his grandfathers, John R. Streaker and William Edward Isaacs, Billy shod horses all over the state of Maryland – and eventually all over the country, for clients loyal to him for decades. He shod for Maryland’s most famous breeding stables, including Al Marah (Arabi- ans), Yankeeland (Standardbreds), and Glade Valley (T oroughbreds). Married four times, Billy


raised seven children (includ- ing farrier Tim Streaker). Billy was very close with older brother Howard (who passed away this past June), and the pair took over the family dairy and crop farm, converting it to horses, and residing side- by-side during the years Billy lived in Maryland.


Shires, William E. “Billy” Streaker


Percherons, ponies, Appaloo- sas, crossbreds on Howard’s side, T oroughbreds on Billy’s side. Howard’s kids on one


side, Billy’s kids on the other. Billy Streaker will continue to touch horses


He rode timber and hurdle races. He drove. He bred and trained T oroughbred racehors- es. He held trainer licenses (fl at track) in six states. After the track, Billy made them into


through the numerous farriers he mentored. In the February 2003 Equiery, Hope Holland wrote: “if the shoe fi ts, chances are Billy Streaker put it on the horse, or trained someone who did.” T at was the year the Maryland Horse Council


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