The Maryland Horse Breeders Association Board of Directors elected Richard F. Blue, Jr. as president, Christy Holden as vice president and Michael Horning as secretary/treasurer during its July 14 meeting.
Blue, President of Blue & Obrecht Realty LLC, served on the MHBA board in 2001 and 2002, again from 2011 to 2017 and was re-elected for another three-year term in 2019. He is a past president of Maryland Million and serves as co-chair of the Maryland Horse Library & Education Center Capital Campaign Committee and on the board of the Maryland State Fair.
Holden is the general manager of Country Life and Merryland Farms. She is serving her second term on the board after being elected in 2018.
Horning is a retired insurance executive and current board member of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association. He was a presidential appointee to the MHBA board in 2018 and elected to another three-year term in 2019.
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