Steve Moirano shows off mare Amazin', and her two-week-old foal, Tessie, to a crowd of onlookers at the UMD Campus Farm at Ag Day/Maryland Day 2013.
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UM showcases first foals born on campus in 30 years
Campus farm plans to expand renewed horse-breeding program
By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun
April 27, 2013
College junior Steve Moirano has no children of his own, but he played the proud parent Saturday as a pair of foals debuted to a crowd of onlookers at the University of Maryland campus farm.
"What was it like?" Brandon Hurn, a sophomore chemical engineering student, asked Moirano, referring to a mare known as Amazin'. "Were you there?"
"I actually pulled the foals out," answered Moirano, an animal sciences major planning to go into veterinary medicine. He and a few classmates were on hand to show off the foals — the first born on the farm in 30 years — and answer questions at Maryland Day, the university's annual campuswide showcase.
The equine births added a hands-on laboratory experience like no classroom lecture for Moirano and 16 other students. And there could soon be more — agriculture school officials plan to broaden the recently renewed horse-breeding program on the campus.
The foals added to the annual "Ag Day" showcase at Maryland Day, drawing crowds of children and grown-up animal enthusiasts. They showed their youth, trotting around in fits and starts, suckling their mothers and laying lazily in the sun.
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