Maryland Will Miss... Longtime Maryland track announcer Rich-


ard “Dick” Woolley died on July 1 in Baltimore. He was 89. Woolley called nearly 20 Preakness Stakes races, bred champion racehorses and won an Eclipse Award. He once declared the 1978 Preakness showdown between Affi rmed and Aly- dar as “the most thrilling moment” of his career. Born in Connecticut, Woolley moved to


Maryland as a child when his family settled in Montgomery County. He learned to ride at a stable off Georgia Avenue in the Aspen Hill area of Silver Spring. Woolley graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1948 and spent a year at Trinity College in Connecticut before enlisting in the Navy, serving during the Korean War. When he returned to the U.S. he enrolled at American University, where he worked as a DJ on the campus radio station WAMU-AM. Woolley graduated with a degree in communications. He fi rst started calling races at Charles Town


before landing at Shenandoah Downs. After spending a few years calling races at various tracks, he took over for Ray Haight on the Mary- land circuit in 1971. Woolley was the announcer at Bowie Race Course until it closed in 1985. He remained at Pimlico through 1988 and also an- nounced at Timonium through 2001. In the late 1970s, Woolley pitched to WITH- AM radio station a weekly horse-racing show that he would both produce and host. It became Baltimore’s weekly “Showcase of Racing.” T e show later moved to WBAL and won Wool- ley the 1979 Eclipse Award for the outstanding radio program. Woolley formed Century Breeders with part- ners Erwin Mendelson and Ralph Duane. T e group had great success with the broodmare Rhombus, whose fi rst foal, the stakes-placed Century Rollick, won nearly $100,000. Her second son, also by the stallion Rollicking, Cen- tury Prince, won almost $114,000, with three stakes races as a two-year-old. Century Prince went on to win the Hirsch Jacobs at Pimlico in his three-year-old year. He was retired to stud shortly after and sired stakes winners Short Fuse Susie and Darinka.


James “Jim” Warren died suddenly on Tues-


day, June 25 at the age of 71. Warren was a well-respected farrier who had been trimming and shoeing horses for 43 years. He was best known for his corrective shoeing and perfecting the barefoot trim. Warren was not above teach- ing his clients the nuances of trimming and giv- ing them lessons, even if it meant less work for


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Event rider Lexi Cindric married Jon Horner on May 19 at Loch Moy Farm in Adamstown.


him. He would joke that he’d like to retire his truck and just drive his Harley to his trims in his later years.


Florence M. Baliles Smallwood died at her


home in Woodbine on June 10 at the age of 70. Smallwood was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and moved to Maryland with her parents shortly after. She grew up in Montgomery County and moved to Howard County after marrying Ronnie Smallwood.


Mark T. Gasser married event rider Alexandra R. Dupont on April 27.


Mooney and Fitzgerald. Filbert loved racing, especially steeplechasing and co-owned the 1998 Maryland Hunt Cup winner Florida Law with partner Francis Knott. Filbert also owned steeplechaser Iron Fist. Filbert was a member of the Manor Conservancy.


Vicki Ryan of Forest Hill died on June 24 Eventually,


the couple moved to Car- roll County where they lived for the past 30 years.


Smallwood was an avid horse lover and animal protector. She owned several horses of various breeds over the years and also had a barn full of stray cats and four rescued dogs. Smallwood often attended horse shows with her friends to cheer them on and fi ll in as groom as needed. She was the practice manager for Dr. Rory Car- olan at Damascus Equine from 2000 - 2009. She also worked for Henry Schein Animal Health until she retired.


John Harry Filbert, II, of Monkton died


on June 21. He was 78. Filbert was born and raised in Baltimore and was a graduate of Mc- Donogh School. He attended Rollins College and joined his family’s margarine business as a regional sales manager. He left the family busi- ness in 1972, moving to Ocean City to open a real estate sales business. In the 1980s, Filbert moved to Monkton and bought Golden Quar- ters Farm. He continued in the real estate fi eld with the old Hill & Co., and later O’Conor,


at the age of 61. Born in Baltimore, she was a 1974 graduate of North Harford High School and attended the University of Maryland Col- lege Park. Ryan owned and operated Razorback Horse Tack & Supply. She also owned several horses, often participating in the Bel Air Fourth of July parade.


Kelda Meeland of Darnestown died on July 11 at the age of 61. She was a graduate of the rid- ing program at the Po- tomac Horse Center and had a lifelong passion for training and caring for horses. Her diverse pro- fessional career included working at T oroughbred breeding facilities, a com-


petitive international driving farm, various res- cue operations, a dressage stables and back yard barns. Later in life, her compassion for animals expanded to pet sitting.


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