April 2020 Issue

EAST COAST EQUESTRIAN April 2020 Page 25 44 Edgefield Rd. • Quarryville, PA 17566 Remember...tell our advertisers you found them in East Coast Equestrian. The Maryland Horse Indus- try Career Exploration Series gives equine-inclined youth the opportunity to learn about a variety of careers available in the Maryland horse industry. Participants will visit various locations, network with leaders and learn about career-advance- ment opportunities that are currently available. The 2020 schedule is: April 18 - Thoroughbred Breeding - Shamrock Farm. Meet Thoroughbred foals and learn about the entire breeding process. Farm manager Jim Steele and the team will share their insights. Start Time - 9 am. 4926 Woodbine Rd, Woodbine, MD. May 9 - Thoroughbred Sales - Fasig-Tipton Midlantic. Go behind the scenes at one of the nation's most popular 2-year-old in training sales. Watch horses train with sales director, Paget Bennett, interact with consignors and see if you can pick a future star! Start Time - 9 am. Sales Pavilion, Maryland State Fair- grounds - 2200 York Rd, Timo- nium, MD. July 11 - Thoroughbred Racing - Laurel Park. Experi- ence the typical morning of a Thoroughbred trainer. Learn what makes a Thoroughbred racehorse's daily training sched- ule different from the average horse, and all that managing a racing stable entails. Start Time - morning - Specifics TBD. 198 Laurel Race Track Rd, Laurel, MD. This program is designed for people between the ages of 14 and 19. Parents/chaperones are welcome to join, but please only RSVP for participants. To sign up: Visit https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/2020- career-exploration-series-tickets- 89269217633. Click the orange "Select A Date" button. Choose which events (you are welcome to all!) you would like to attend (Limit four tickets per individual). Questions? Email jordyn@ marylandthoroughbred.com. Explore Careers in the Maryland Horse Industry Will run next year - Saturday, May 8, 2021 The American Horse Council has expanded the number of supporting organizations to their equine microchip lookup tool at www.Horselookup.org with the addition of AKC Reunite bring- ing the number of searchable microchipping equids to over one million. AKC Reunite is the nation’s largest not for profit pet micro- chipping company. Founded in 1995 and an affiliate of The American Kennel Club, AKC Reunite has over 7 million com- panion animals of 35 different New Microchip Lookup Tool for Horses species in its recovery service. “We are extremely proud to join horselookup.org at this time,” said Dallas Harsa, Vice Pres- ident of Sales and Marketing. “This free tool is essential in protecting horses, donkeys and mules.” This tool allows the gen- eral public; specifically horse owners, law enforcement and animal health officials, to search for association affilia- tion for horses that have been microchipped and registered with a participating organiza- tion. Microchip lookup services have existed for several animal species for years. Unfortunately, those lookup tools have certain limitations that prevented the entirety of the horse industry from being represented. Horse- lookup.org addresses those issues while also providing a central informational source for the equine industry concerning microchipping, as well as the promotion of microchipping as a form of permanent identifica- tion. (Continued on page 34)