MMarylandaryland HHorseorse JJulyuly 22010010 OOffiffi ccialial ppublicationublication ooff tthehe MMarylandaryland HHorseorse BBreedersreeders AAssociation;ssociation; VVol.ol. 775,5, NNo.o. 7 MHBA Board of Directors election Inside Horse information online............. 8 Maryland-bred stakes winners .. 10 Maryland-bred starter handicaps 6 Maryland Equine Census ............. 1 Maryland Foal Report ................... 8 Maryland Fund .............................. 9 Maryland Fund stakes recap American Victory .................... 7 Maryland’s leading sires ............ 13 Maryland’s top earners .............. 13 MHBA Awards Dinner .................11 1 MHBA Board election ........................ 1 MHBA membership form ........... 13 Clockwise from top left: William My Lady’s Manor book excerpt ... 2 S. Reightler, Ann Merryman, Ulman appointed Racing R. Thomas Bowman, E. Allen Commission chairman ........... 7 Murray and JoAnn Hayden. MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC. 30 East Padonia Road Timonium, MD 21093 P.O. Box 427 One new member, a re- Timonium, MD 21094 turning member, and each of 410-252-2100 the three eligible incumbents Fax 410-560-0503 were the top vote-getters in www.marylandthoroughbred.com the Maryland Horse Breeders BOARD OF DIRECTORS Association’s annual Board of Maryland Equine Census R. Thomas Bowman Directors election conducted President in May. needs your support! A. Brice Ridgely New to the board is Wil- Vice-president liam S. Reightler, a lifelong he 2010 Maryland the only reliable measure of Milton P. Higgins III Maryland horseman who has T Equine Census is now under- the size and economic impact Secretary-treasurer operated Bill Reightler Sales way. of the industry for public and Cricket Goodall and Consulting Agency since It is important that all private decision making pro- Executive director 1999. horse owners respond to the cess. Amy H. Daney, Rebecca B. Reightler, 56, lives in White Davis, James T. Dresher Jr., questionnaire. If you are involved in Hall (Harford County) with Carlos A. Garcia, JoAnn The census will give lead- equine activities and have his wife, Barrie Reightler, who Hayden, Ann Merryman, ers in the horse industry as not received a questionnaire, Suzanne Moscarelli, E. Allen is the MHBA’s longtime direc- well as public and private de- please call (410) 841-5740 or Murray, Michael Pons, William tor of publications. cision makers the current, ac- (800) 675-0295. S. Reightler Jr., Sally Thomas, Currently ranked among curate data they need to pro- For more information visit Frank P. Wright the region’s leading sales mote the industry and make www. marylandhorseindus Directors Emeritus agents, Reightler oversaw the J. William Boniface, King T. informed decisions. try.org/census.shtml. R design and construction, and Leatherbury, , Donald P. Litz The horse industry in served as manager, of two of Jr.Robert T. Manfuso, Maryland is vital and this is Katharine M. Voss Maryland’s showplace Thor- oughbred facilities – Chance- A longtime owner/trainer, breeder who has served as ty), one of the state’s leading land Farm in West Friend- Merryman, 58, owns a farm the MHBA’s president since breeding establishments. ship and Ross Valley Farm in in Sparks (Baltimore County). 2009. The Bowmans maintain E. Allen Murray, 77, who Sparks – before establishing She also currently serves on Dance Forth Farm in Chester- with his wife, Audrey Mur- his own business. the MHBA’s Breed Promotion town (Kent County) and Ro- ray, owns and operates the Ann W. Merryman, who Committee. land Farm in Chesapeake City long-successful Murmur was ineligible for election in Reelected as incumbents (Cecil County). Farm in Darlington (Harford 2009 because of having served were: JoAnn Hayden, 62, propri- County). R six consecutive years on the R. Thomas Bowman, 67, etor with her husband, David board, has returned for her prominent equine veterinar- Hayden, of Dark Hollow Farm sixth three-year term. ian and leading Maryland in Upperco (Baltimore Coun- My Lady’s Manor Races 1909-2009 by Margaret Worrall Excerpted from My Lady’s the 1750s on land given by the Mano r Races 1909-2009 (Copy- Slades and constructed with right 2009, Margaret Worrall). contributions from the Manor residents. The church remains Racing horses over the the center of the My Lady’s My Lady’s Manor countryside Manor community today. is hardly something that sud- With the patriot victory in 2 denly popped up 100 years the Revolutionary War, how- ago. From the earliest times ever, the Manor land grants of Colonial settlement in the by the English Crown to Lord newly discovered mid-Atlan- Baltimore and from his heirs to tic territory, the land and the the families now living there horse formed much of not on- for several generations were in ly the livelihood but also the jeopardy. The Maryland Alien social life of the adventurous Property Commission seized newcomers. My Lady’s Manor and the en- In Maryland and the Thor- tirety was confiscated as spoils oughbred (1932), author D. This photograph of the My Lady’s Manor paddock in from the defeated king. Sterett Gittings, the vener- 1929 shows how people endeavored to get a good view Suddenly their homes no able horseman over whose of the activities. Note the men in the tree on the left, longer belonged to them. All property part of the 1899 people crowded on the wagon, and a man perched on other royal grants in the new Maryland Hunt Cup was run, support scaffolding to the center rear of the photo. State of Maryland faced the wrote about this powerful as- same fate. sociation between the British “In October 1782, under heritage and the horse in Bal- legacy in 1732. Brerewood in the Federation News, April the Confiscation Act, the lands timore County. held 10,000 acres, known 1937, “My Lady’s Manor be- of My Lady’s Manor were The Calverts, Lords Bal- variously as “My Lady’s Man- came settled by the old well- sold at auction at Slade’s Tav- timore, were patrons of the or” and “Lord Baltemore’s known Maryland families of ern,” Jack Randolph Hutchins turf and it is but natural that Guift,” which was a portion Howards, Emorys, Pearces, writes in Robert Hutchins of Co- a county where the sports- of the large Grant of Maryland Cockeys, Hutchins, Holmes, lonial America. “Former army loving spirit of Cavalier Mary- made to the Calverts by King Sparks, Bacons, Bosleys, Cur- officers [in the American revo- land is still everywhere in evi- Charles I of England in the tis and Slades.” lutionary forces] purchased dence should be rich in stud early 1600s. The land was then These families indeed first large tracts with their Army farms, stables, and thorough- patented in 1713 from Charles arrived by ship and estab- Depreciation Certificates. In breds. Calvert, third Lord Baltimore, lished Joppa as the center for many cases the original hold- Indeed, the first of My second Lord Proprietary of the court days, tobacco markets, ers (patentees of Lord Balti- Lady’s Manor grantees made Province of Maryland, to Mar- horse racing and public hang- more) bought back the land the arduous Atlantic voyage garet, Lady Baltimore, Baron- ings. Later as they acquired from those who bid it in when at the invitation of Thomas ess of Baltimore. more land north along the sold at auction.” Brerewood the Elder, who ar- “In time,” stated an ar- Little Gunpowder, St. James And so those long-estab- rived to claim his Maryland ticle by Mary B. M. Mitchell Episcopal Church was built in lished families remained on My Lady’s Manor, with a sur- that included “bungalows, ga- prising number of the grant- rages, quarters, kennels, etc., ees’ descendants still living and stables of sufficient size there today. for a cavalry regiment, giv- In the opinion of J. Blan ing the well-kept grounds at Van Urk in The Story of Ameri- Farmington the appearance of can Foxhunting, published in a prosperous township,” Wat- 1940, “That foxhunting start- ters recounted. ed, in embryo, in what is now Watters referred to the the State of Maryland is, and Manor as “the Melton Mow- can be, the only conclusion bray of America” and listed drawn, and the accepted date the arrival of those fox hunt- must be 1650.” ers from outside the area such For The Field Illustrated, as S. Lurman Stewart, Foxhall March 1927, Sidney Wat- P. Keene, Sir T. Ashley Sparks, ters wrote an article specifi- The original My Lady’s Manor course at Clifford was a true W. H. Decourcy Wright, L. E. cally about fox hunting on point-to-point with a variety of fences, roads and cultivated Keiffer, L. D. DeVine, Garet E. the Manor. He had purchased fi elds to cross, and lots of charm, according to steeplechase Winants, James Park, George Dunmore Farm in 1909 and historian Peter Winants. The Pearce house and the last Saportas, Jr. and F. Ambrose married Mary Louise Pearce fence uphill to the fi nish can be seen behind the paddock. Clark, to mention only a few, in 1913. Watters recounted, with large fields “numbering “Many of the original resi- at times well over a hundred.” dents of My Lady’s Manor and Alas, the Great Depression its adjacent territory, Pearces, added more hardship and put Streetts, Hutchinses, Cockeys, a halt to the luxuries of the Holmeses, Howards, Turners, Harford Hunt. Many of those Pattersons, and various oth- notables from New York, Phil- ers, have inherited the spirit adelphia, Chicago and Boston of the chase from their ances- resigned from the organiza- tors. Many years ago their tion. forebears were Joint Masters When the race debuted of a gigantic pack, which drew on April 24, 1909, My Lady’s the same coverts which are Manor Point-to-Point was part being drawn today.