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situation endurable and allowed us to focus on moving forward instead of being paralyzed by the shock of the situation.”


Maryland’s Jessica Krupnick Clinches Victory in MATCH Series


by Stacey Wells T e Mid-Atlantic T oroughbred Champion- ship (MATCH) Series fi nished its fi ve month run on September 15-16. MATCH holds races at various venues, including Maryland’s Lau- rel Park. Horses and riders compete for a total purse money of $2.9 million. T is year, all fi ve 2018 division winners were based in Maryland along with the top three overall champions. Jessica Krupnick, a fi ve-year-old mare based at the Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, secured victory with 34 points to become the overall champion for 2018. She competed in the Filly and Mare Sprint – Dirt division to win the title racing four separate times at four diff erent tracks. Jessica Krupnick is owned by Sycamore Racing V and trained by Francis “Tres” Abbott III. Hillside Equestrian Meadows’ Laki fi nished


in a close second with 32 points overall and won the 3-Year-Olds and Up Sprint – Dirt division. T e Maryland-based fi ve-year-old gelding is trained by Damon Dilodovico and earned the Maryland-bred bonus for the most points earned overall in the male or female cat- egory.


Another horse with Maryland connections


rounded out the top three overall with Linda Zang’s Lewisfi eld, trained by Jeff Runco. Lew- isfi eld earned 26 points and was the second place in the 3-Year-Olds and Up Sprint – Dirt division. Pennsylvania-bred Page McKenney, trained by Marylander Mary Eppler, won his 3-Year-


Olds and Up Long – Dirt division. Mary Eppler Racing Stable’s Oak Bluff s won the 3-Year-Olds and Up Sprint – Turf division and Audley Farm Stable’s Smiling Causeway came out on top of the Filly and Mare Sprint – Turf


Hale Earns Joe Kelly Award


Georganne Hale has held nearly every job within a racing offi ce in her long career in the T oroughbred racing industry. She started with the Maryland Jockey Club in 1984 and currently holds the title of Vice President of Racing Development.


Recently,


Hale also has been involved with various national and local levels of T orough- bred aftercare. She started the Totally T oroughbred Horse Show at Pimlico in 2012. To date, the show has raised over $70,000 to ben- efi t Maryland T orough- bred aftercare facilities. For her continual dedi-


The connections of Fair Hill Training Center-based fi ve-year-old mare Jessica Krupnick celebrate their MATCH series win


Division. Page McKenney also received the top Pennsylvania-bred bonus with Oak Bluff s win- ning the New Jersey-bred bonus. To read more about this year’s MATCH se- ries go to http://matchseries.com/


Boniface Named a Living Treasure On Tuesday, September 18, J. William Boni- face of Creswell Farm was named a Harf- ord Living Treasure. Boniface bred the 1983 Preakness winner Deputed Testamony, who was born, trained and died at Boniface’s Har- ford County farm. T e Boniface family has long been involved with T oroughbred racing and Boniface was part of the trio (with Chick Lang and Jim McKay) that created what is now called the Jim McKay Maryland Million.


cation to the sport of horse racing and the T orough- bred, Hale has been named


this year’s Joe Kelly Maryland Million Unsung Hero Award recipient. T e award is given out annually by the Board of Directors of the Maryland Million Ltd. in honor of the memo- ry of Joe Kelly. T e award celebrates and recog- nizes honesty, hard work and humility, qualities that serve as inspiration to others.


Laurel’s Fall Festival Handle Up Laurel Park’s Fall Festival of Racing took


in a handle of $5.073 million, an increase of 35.5% over 2017. T e one-day festival hosted seven stakes races including the 27th running of the Xpressbet Frank De Francis Memorial Dash (G3). T e 2018 handle was also the high- est handle for that corresponding day in the last four years.


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