At the Board meeting held on Monday, July 18 at the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s office in Reisterstown, the new board elected Kent Murray as president, Christine W. Holden as vice president and Michael Horning as secretary/treasurer.
Murray, program manager for Northrop Grumman Corporation, grew up on his family’s Murmur farm in Darlington, and continues to serve the farm as a consultant and account manager. He and his wife, Donna, own Twin Oaks Ranch, a boarding facility, in Aberdeen.
Holden, general manager of Country Life and Merryland Farms, where she has worked since 2004, is serving a third term on the board after being first elected in 2018.
A retired insurance executive and current board member of the Maryland Thoroughbred Riders Association, Horning was a presidential appointee to the MHBA board in 2018 and was elected to the board of directors. three-year term in 2019.
Richard F. Blue Jr, the former MHBA chairman, is not eligible to run for re-election, having served six consecutive years on the MHBA board.
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