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Malibu Moon, Action This Day to Spendthrift

Malibu Moon, Action This Day to Spendthrift

Malibu Moon, who has stood the last four years at Castleton Lyons near Lexington, will stand in 2008 at B. Wayne Hughes' newly renovated Spendthrift Farm, also near Lexington.

 Thursday, October 25, 2007

Pensioned Maryland Stallion Carnivalay Dead

Carnivalay, one of Maryland's top stallions for years, died Jan. 9 of an apparent heart attack at the Pons' family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md.

 Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Retired Maryland Official Betty Shea Miller Dead

Betty Shea Miller, a former secretary-treasurer of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, died Sept. 12 at age 90.

 Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Friday Morning Line at Pimlico

The blue and white Brook Ledge van pulled up to a receiving area near the stakes barn at Pimlico at 2:35 p.m. Elvis has entered the building.

 Friday, May 19, 2006

Maryland Stallion Citidancer Pensioned

Citidancer, one of Maryland's leading sires for years, has been pensioned at the Pons family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md., because of declining fertility.

 Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Life of Joseph Pons Remembered at Memorial

Joseph Pons Sr. touched a lot of people in his life, from breeders and racetrackers to prisoners he helped rehabilitate at a nearby detention center. Hundreds of those people turned out Monday at the Pons family's Country Life Farm north of Baltimore to celebrate the life of the beloved Marylander who died last Wednesday at the age of 83.

 Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Maryland Horseman Joseph P. Pons Sr. Dead

Joseph P. Pons Sr., patriarch of Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md., died Oct. 12 of a heart attack at his home at the farm.

 Thursday, October 13, 2005

Snowden Carter Dies at Age 83

Snowden Carter, who served as general manager of the Maryland Horse Breeders' Association and editor of The Maryland Horse from 1962 until his retirement in 1986, died Feb. 3 of heart failure at his home in Owings Mills, Md. He was 83.

 Monday, February 07, 2005

Country Life Adds Parker's Storm Cat

Filling the void left when his half-brother Malibu Moon was recently moved to Castleton Lyons Farm near Lexington, Parker's Storm Cat will enter stud in 2004 at the Pons family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md. The son of Storm Cat's fee will be $3,000.

 Friday, November 14, 2003

Unbridled's No Armistice to Country Life Farm

B. Wayne Hughes' No Armistice, a graded stakes-placed son of Unbridled, will enter stud for the 2004 breeding season at The Pons family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md.

 Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Country Life Farm Expands

The Pons' family's Country Life Farm of Bel Air, Md. announced Friday the acquistion of Merryland Farm, a 159-acre horse farm located in the Long Green Valley of Maryland.

 Friday, August 24, 2001