Racing Media Gives Back to Youth & Celebrates 2012 Newsmakers
T e Maryland Racing Media Association was founded in 1937 and held its fi rst meeting at Havre de Grace racetrack. T e purpose was to bring together turf writers to promote both media and the T oroughbred racehorse. Over the years, MRMA has given out several awards and scholarships at their annual crab feast. T is year, $27,000 in scholarships was given out to 23 students involved in the Maryland T oroughbred industry. T is year’s awards bring the amount given out over the past decade to nearly $350,000. In addition to the scholarships, MRMA honored three people who have had a great inpact on the Maryland T oroughbred industry this past year with the Humphrey S. Finney Award, the Nancy Alberts Achievement Award and the Newsmaker Award.
T e 2012 Nancy Alberts Achievement Award for achievement during the past year went to trainer Hamilton Smith and owners Skeedattle Associates. Smith has been a steady presence in the winner’s circle at Laurel Park, Pimilico and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. T is past year, Smith made his fi rst trip to the Kentucky Derby with the Skeedattle Associates-owned contender Done Talking.
For the second year in a row, Lauren Mundy (pictured here with MRMA president Ted Black) received $3,000 in the form of the Lucy Action Memorial Scholarship for Service. Mundy is in her second year of studies at the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. On breaks, she works with the Maryland Vet Group. Alexandra Curtiss (not pictured) was awarded the Eddie McMullen Memorial Scholarship ($3,000). Curtiss is a junior at the veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania and during summer breaks, works for Black Fox Farm and Piper’s Run Farm.
Malie Lockard (pictured left), a junior at Salisbury University, earned a $1,000 scholarship. She is ma- joring in biology and pre-med. Other scholarship winners include: Colleen O’Reilly, Allen Foster, Cassandra Daney, Kathleen O’Laughlin, Nicho- las Dilodivico, Sean Konkolics, Meghan Mooney, Corey Mongan, Timothy Steele, Johnny Weiss, Patrick John Allinson, Kristin Bungori, Ryan Clan- cy, Jennifer Parsons, Brianna Price, Alex Suggs and Rebecca Walters.
T e 2012 Humphrey S. Finney Award was awarded to Howard Bender and his late wife Sondra this year in recognition of a lifetime of contributions to the Maryland horse rac- ing industry. T e Benders have been among the most successful owners in Maryland with several stakes winners through over 30 years of racing. T ey were Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s Breeder of the Year three times (2001-2003) and raced mainly homebreds from their Glade Valley Farms in Frederick where they also stood legendary Maryland sires Challenger II and Rollicking. Sondra died of cancer this past February.
Georganne Hale was awarded the Newsmaker Award for her work with bringing the Totally T or- oughbred Horse Show to life at Pimlico. Hale was the fi rst woman to hold the position of paddock judge in Maryland, the fi rst woman to serve as racing secretary in the state and then the fi rst woman to hold a racing secretary position at a major track when she was ap- pointed in 2000 for Pimlico and Laurel. Eventually, she became the Maryland Jockey Club’s director of racing. And this year she blazed another trail, bringing a horse show restricted to registered T oroughbreds to the infi eld of Pimlico.
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Gabby Gaudet (senior at Towson University, ma- joring in Mass Communication) earned a $2,500 scholarship while Jermaine Haughton (University of Maryland studying philosophy and rhetoric pre- law) and Dagmar Caramello (graduate student at University of Maryland studying English Rhetoric and Composition) each earned a $2,000 scholarship this year.
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