T OUT &ABOUT
JUN 2018
at the Hi-Ho Pimlico Fashion Show May 10 • Pimlico Racecourse • photos by Tammie J. Monaco
Bet Bridges started exercising horses for Joe and Blythe Davies, Billy Meister and Cyril Murphy while persuing a degree in pre- medicine at Towson University. After graduating in 2015, she con- tinued to ride for others as well as re-train retired racehorses for the competition ring, and teach young riders.
Realtor Mary Wiley Wagner offi - cially retired as a jockey in 1997 to start a family with her husband, Bruce Wagner, the Maryland Jockey Club’s starter. Twelve years later, the breast cancer sur- vior got back in the irons for the fi rst Lady Legends race in 2009.
Anne Litz grew up riding with her mother, showing with Gar- rison Forest and hunting with Green Spring Valley Hounds. Now, she is the Field Market- ing Specialist for the Maryland Horse Industry Board and the Marketing, Membership and Social Media coordinator for the Maryland Horse Council.
Sarah Stein runs Second Chanc- es in Sykesville, a collaboration between the Thoroughbred Re- tirement Foundation and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. She grew up riding in Montgomery County, and was a jockey and assistant trainer working with Jack Fisher and Ann Stewart.
Kara Douglas is a Nurse Anes- thetist at GBMC and competes on the USEF/USHJA circuit as a hobby. Douglas and the retired Maryland-bred racehorse Testa- monialy were the Adult Amateur Finals Champions at the 2007 Washington International Horse Show!
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Trainer Mary Eppler got her rac- ing start as a walker and exercise rider for none other than Alfred G. Vanderbilt at the iconic Sagamore Farm. She took out her trainer’s license in 1980, and last year, be- came the fi rst woman in the histo- ry of the Maryland Jockey Club to win a trainer’s title at Laurel Park.
Andrea Seefeldt Knight was the second female jockey to ride in the Preakness (1994) and the third to ride in the Kentucky Derby (1991). She went from the racetrack to the show ring to the hunt fi eld and now is a top competitor and trainer in the sport of Clay Shooting.
Jordyn Egan is a west coast transplant who made Maryland her home after marrying Laurel- based trainer Jason Egan. She is the Director of Special Projects with the Maryland Horse Breed- ers Association, and organizes the Maryland Thoroughbred Ca- reer Program, as well as the Jim McKay Maryland Million Day.
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