Mark Ford Stables News Today

Orange County horse trainer Mark Ford has agreed to take responsibility for wetlands that were destroyed when he built a training facility in Wallkill and to pay a $200,000 penalty.

WALLKILL, NY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday (Aug. 21) that it reached a consent decree to settle a four-year civil case against Mark Ford, a prominent figure in standardbred harness racing, for violating the Clean Water Act by illegally filling wetlands and polluting the waters at his training center and another location