Gillian Dupont, founder and owner of The Old Habit in Marshall, Virginia, passed away Sunday, October 30, 2011 after a courageous battle with cancer. Her sister was by her side. There will be a service at the Leeds Episcopal Church in Hume, Virginia on Thursday, November 3rd, at 11 am. There will be a small reception after the service to share memories. Many of us here in Virginia probably went hunting a little better turned out due to Gillian.
Posted November 2, 2011
Steven Hayes led the Cheshire riders to a strong showing on Hunt Night at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg on October 17, 2011. Hayes won the Field Hunter Class for riders over thirty-five years of age and the Gentlemen’s Hunter under Saddle Class, riding Clever, owned by Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds (PA).
Hayes then teamed up with fellow Cheshire members Cindy Buchanan, DMV and Joy Slater and led his team to win the highly competitive Hunt Teams Class. Nine hunts sent up to two teams each to participate in the event.
Posted October 20, 2011
(l-r) Steven Hayes, Cindy Buchanan, DMV, and Joy Slater jumping the last fence abreast and winning the Hunt Team Class at Penn National. / Al Cook photo
Kathy Nofsinger and Patti Brantley riding for the Live Oak Hounds (FL) teamed up with Arnold Bloom, Aiken Hounds (SC) to win the Hunt Team Class at the Aiken Fall Festival. To view a video of the winning round, click here.
Posted October 6, 2011
(l-r) Kathy Nofsinger and Patti Brantley, Live Oak Hounds and Arnold Bloom, Aiken Hounds / Shawn McMillen photo
The Masters of the Golden’s Bridge Hounds (NY) have announced the appointment of Yolanda Knowlton as Joint-Master.
Knowlton is a longtime horsewoman who has evented, shown, and foxhunted. She has been a hard working member of Golden’s Bridge Hounds for many years, has run the hunt ball, the annual auction, and has served as Hunt Secretary.
“Yolanda lives right in the hunting country and knows all the landowners,” said Golden’s Bridge MFH (and MFHA President) Ed Kelly. “She has earned it and will be a great asset as Joint-Master.”
With her appointment, Knowlton joins Golden’s Bridge Joint-Masters Eugene O. Colley, Edward W. Kelly, Peter D. Kamenstein, S. Mackintosh Pulsifer, Kenneth Silverman, and Bruce D. Colley.
Posted October 5, 2011
A Missouri woman has been sued by the Missouri Veterinarian Medical Board for floating horses’ teeth. The lawsuit claims that Missouri law defines dentistry and floating as veterinary medicine.
The defendant, Brooke Gray, trained at the Academy of Equine Dentistry in Idaho and completed a five-month apprenticeship in Colorado.
In the response filed by Gray’s attorney, Gray asserted six Affirmative Defenses rooted in rights protected under the U.S. and Missouri Constitutions.
The response also cites precedents in other licensed industries where courts have determined that certain trained practitioners in a narrow area of practice cannot be prevented from doing business just because they are not trained and licensed in broader areas in which they do not practice.
The response goes on to claim that floaters have been filing horses’ teeth for hundreds of years, the services typically being provided by non-veterinarian lay persons. It claims that such individuals may be better prepared to float teeth than most veterinarians because many receive training at specialized schools where the entire curriculum is devoted to the practice, “while floating is not part of the core curriculum at any veterinary school. Furthermore, most veterinarians who regularly float horses’ teeth learn the practice from an experienced non-veterinarian floater or at one of the specialized equine dentistry schools, not at a veterinary school.”
This may be the first test in the U.S. by any state veterinarian board to put non-veterinarian tooth floaters out of business. The outcome should be of interest to all horse dentists, veterinarians, and horsemen.
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Posted October 4, 2011
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