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| Indy and Suzanne D’Ambrose |
Tom
Luchento, president of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of
New Jersey, will be one of the panelists for the event on Monday, June 17,
2013.
Joining
Luchento on the panel will be Harriet Honigfeld, administrator of the Farmland
Preservation Program, Monmouth County Planning Board; owner-breeder-attorney
Sam Landy, president of the Open Space Pace & Festival, and Dr. Karyn
Malinowski, director of the Equine Science Center at Rutgers University.
Moderating the panel will be Dr. William Sciarappa of Rutgers University, New
Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.
Indy,
a 12-year-old trotter who retired from racing six years ago, has earned many
awards for hunter, pace, western showmanship as well as appeared in parades and
made personal appearances.
Weather
permitting, he will be available to meet and greet the public from 5:30 to 7
p.m. on the library grounds.
“Indy
is known as the Ambassador of Standardbreds by many of my friends, since he
enjoys meeting the public, especially children,” said D’Ambrose, who teaches
law enforcement for the Monmouth County Vocational School District. “We
have been members of the Standardbred Pleasure Horse Organization of New Jersey
since 2009. We were the color guard for the Open Space Pace Parade in
Freehold last September and will be doing this again for this year’s Open Space
Pace Parade on September 21.”
D’Ambrose
has volunteered her services with the Standardbred Retirement Foundation for 10
years and is an equine message therapist, operating as FreeMotion Equine
Massage of Howell, NJ.
Information
booklets and coloring books provided by the United States Trotting Association
will be available for free at the library event.
-Submitted by Carol Hodes for SBOANJ
