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Milt Toby is an attorney, author, photographer, golf rules official, and weight lifter with a lifelong interest and involvement in the horse industry. He grew up showing American Saddlebreds, then switched to hunters, dressage, and combined training. Milt worked at some of the country’s largest horse shows as a steward for the American Horse Shows Association (before the organization morphed into the United States Equestrian Federation), and he has attended equine events on six continents. The author of five books, including The Complete Equine Legal and Business Handbook and Ruffian, Milt is the current Chair of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Equine Law Section.

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Setting A Good Example

States should not be in the business of subsidizing owners, breeders, and exhibitors who abuse or neglect their horses. That should go without saying, but it still happens. Steps are being taken in New York and Kentucky to link incentive program payments to animal welfare, and other states should follow those examples. Attracting businesses to a state by sweetening the pot with tax breaks or other...