OTTB Makeover Competitors Receive Touch of Class Awards

Michelle Warro, Rebecca Walters, and Neil Agate received the Maryland Horse Industry Board’s awards on Dec. 5.
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Three Maryland horse trainers—Michelle Warro from Davidsonville (Anne Arundel County), Rebecca Walters from Fallston (Harford County), and Neil Agate from Germantown (Montgomery County)—received the Maryland Horse Industry Board’s Touch of Class Award on Dec. 5, at the Thoroughbred Alliance Show Series banquet.

The awards were presented to the trainers, their horses, and the horses’ owners and breeders by Horse Industry Board Chairman Jim Steele at the banquet, which took place at Laurel Park. The three trainers were recognized for earning top honors at the 2015 Thoroughbred Makeover competition in Lexington, Kentucky.

The makeover competition featured 350 horses and trainers from 44 states, Canada, and England who were tasked with retraining a Thoroughbred who had retired from racing within the past year in one of 10 equestrian disciplines.

Warro, aboard the 4-year-old gelding Best Things InLife—who had raced at Laurel as recently as last March—scored best in the three-day eventing division and third in dressage. Walters, on the 6-year-old gelding Feet Included, was the top amateur trainer in the show jumping division. Agate, riding his 6-year-old mare Demon, finished as the top amateur trainer in the polo division

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