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Press Release - May 11, 2022
Joe Clancy, editor of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred magazine and co-owner with brother Sean of ST Publishing, Inc. - parent company of The Saratoga Special newspaper and thisishorseracing.com - has been named recipient of the 2022 Old Hilltop Award for covering Thoroughbred racing with excellence and distinction.
Grade 1 winner Just One Time is at the head of the class in the first Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2022.
In most of his races, Knicks Go has gone straight to the front and never looked back. The same was true in the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll.
Sandra McKee, a contributing writer to Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred for the past eight years after a 36-year career as a sportswriter for the Baltimore Evening Sun and Baltimore Sun, will be honored next month with an Eclipse Award for her story “A Jockey’s Life” that appeared in the June 2021 edition of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred.
Knicks Go and Beren both posted recent victories to remain atop the latest Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll. As was the case in July, Beren leads the poll of region-bred three-year-olds, while Knicks Go leads among older horses.
Chub Wagon continued her rise up the ladder in the latest Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll, while a pair of newcomers joined the lists.
With back-to-back stakes wins in May, three-year-old Beren came from nowhere to take over the top spot in the latest Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll for three-year-olds. The poll, for action through June 11, is the third of 2021.
In the second Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2021, the names at the top are unchanged. But newcomers are certainly making their presence felt.
