LIFE & TIMES


Maryland Will Miss... Pimlico-based trainer David Howard died


on March 15 from a heart attack. He was 45. A Maryland native, Howard started his train- ing career in November 2021 with his fi rst win coming on February 27, 2022 with Hot Choice at Laurel Park. Howard saddled 250 starters logging 28 wins, 29 seconds and 42 thirds for earnings of $930,772. T is year, he had already shown a 15% win rate and was 45% in the money, both percentages were above his previ- ous career averages. On March 15, he ran two horses at Laurel Park including winner T en- comemorning.


Howard Franklin Streaker, III, of Mt. Airy


died on April 7. He was 69. Born in Baltimore, Streaker lived the majority of his life at Clear View Farm in West Friendship. Streaker was a lifelong farmer as well as horseman. He bred horses, trained and showed them as well as driving carriage horses. He once was an extra in a television series on George Washington and was also involved with the Nation- al Brewing Co. Eight Horse Hitch, showing along the East Coast. Streaker also had a construction business and did trucking.


Steeplechase trainer and racehorse


owner Bruce Miller of Pennsylva- nia died on April 9 at the age of 89. Miller trained the legendary Lone-


some Glory, who was a fi ve-time champion and Hall of Fame steeplechaser. Lonesome Glory also earned two Eclipse Awards for Champion Steeplechase Horse. Other notable cham- pion horses include All Gong and Pier- rot Lunaire. Miller won the Maryland Hunt Cup three times: Our Steeple- jack in 1985, Solo Lord in 2001, and Make Me A Champ in 2005. Miller grew up showing horses and foxhunt- ing with Huntingdon Valley Hunt. He briefl y owned a small cattle operation after high school before joining the U.S. Army in the mid-1950s. He started riding in timber races in 1957 while at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) in North Caro- lina and after the Army, switched from cattle to horses. Miller rode races as an amateur including four Maryland Hunt Cups. His best fi nish was second aboard East- mac in 1973. Miller earned the


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Comings & Goings


Dr. Julia Miller has joined Monocacy Equine Veterinary Associates as a long-term relief veterinarian. Dr. Miller is originally from southeastern Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Penn State Veterinary School.


of Marylanders


and led the trainer by earnings in 1995 and 2000. He had 561 lifetime wins as a trainer, ac- cording to Equibase. Miller’s daughter, Mary- lander Blythe Mill- er Davies, won an NSA jockey cham- pionship in 1994 and 1995, while his son, Chip Miller, won the NSA jock- ey championship in 1996. Steeplechas- ing continues in


the Miller family as his grandson Teddy Davies of Monkton rode Vintage Vinnie to Maryland Hunt Cup victory in 2022.


T omas Cooke died on April 8 in Rosslyn,


VA. Cooke was a professor at Georgetown Uni- versity since 1976. Cooke had three George- town Law degrees and was the owner of TBC Stables where he bred and raced Standardbred harness horses at various tracks in the mid- Atlantic region. Top horses produced by TBC Stables include Nuclear Breeze, Toms Titan and one of Maryland’s most famous homebred trotting champions, GooGooGaaGaa. He was a director on the board of Cloverleaf Standard- bred Owners Association, and was a passionate advocate for harness racing and for the Stan- dardbred horsemen and the breed, right up un- til the day of his passing.


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