ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 16, 2012) \u2013 More than 250 people are expected to attend the Maryland Horse Industry Board\u2019s \u201cNight of Maryland Horse Racing Champions,\u201d which will honor eight national champions (six horses and two people) from four different racing disciplines \u2014 harness, Arabians, Thoroughbred and steeplechase. The eight champions will be presented with the MHIB\u2019s Touch of Class Award, which recognizes members of Maryland\u2019s equine community that have achieved national and international prominence.<\/p>\n
What: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Night of Maryland Horse Racing Champions, hosted by the MD Horse Industry Board<\/p>\n
When:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a06 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, 2012<\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Sports Legends Museum, 301 West Camden Street, Baltimore (at Camden Yards)<\/p>\n
Food and beverages for the “Taste of the Race” reception provided by: Barrett’s, Hunt Valley; Heavy Seas Brewery, Baltimore; Lemon Leaf Cafe, Chestertown; Manor Tavern, Monkton; Maryland Jockey Club Caterers, Baltimore\/Laurel; Maryland Wineries Association, Timonium; Saschas 527 Cafe, Baltimore; and Wegman’s, Hunt Valley.<\/p>\n
Entertainment: Hot Buttered Nuggets, a 3-piece jazz\/swing\/Americana band comprised of harness racing aficionados.<\/p>\n
Event Sponsors: Cloverleaf Standardbred Owners Associations, GalaCloths, Dulany Noble, Maryland Jockey Club, Maryland Standardbred Race Fund, Ocean Downs, Penn National Gaming<\/p>\n
For more details about the honorees and the event, visit:www.mda.maryland.gov\/pdf\/NightOfChamps.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES who plan to cover the event should RSVPs to Vanessa Orlando at vanessa.orlando@maryland.gov or 410-841-5889; or Julie Oberg at julie.oberg@maryland.gov or 410-841-5888.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 16, 2012) \u2013 More than 250 people are expected to attend the Maryland Horse Industry Board\u2019s \u201cNight of Maryland Horse Racing Champions,\u201d which will honor eight national champions (six horses and two people) from four different racing disciplines \u2014 harness, Arabians, Thoroughbred and steeplechase. The eight champions will be presented with the Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[102,100],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-championship-racers","tag-horse-industry-board"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}