Led by Virginia-born Secretariat, who ranked second only to Man o’ War, a dozen Mid-Atlantic-breds appeared on The Blood-Horse’s list of the top 100 racehorses of the 20th century.

In the top 50 were Maryland-breds Cigar, Challedon and Gallorette, ranked 18th, 38th and 45th, respectively.

• Trainer Dick Dutrow, a Maryland native “whose career was world-class,” died at 61.
  Dutrow rose to prominence in his home state in the 1970s as one of the “big four,” along with colleagues King T. Leatherbury, Bud Delp and John Tammaro Jr. In 1975, Dutrow’s stable set a national record for wins with 352. He had 3,665 wins in all. Based in New York for more than a decade, he sent out such top class runners as Grade 1-winning sprinters King’s Swan and homebred Lite the Fuse. His son Tony Dutrow took over his stable, while sons Rick Dutrow Jr. and Chip Dutrow were trainers in New York and Maryland, respectively.
  
  
• Win 3,000 was “looming boldly” for Charles Town jockey Larry Dupuy. At 44 years old, after riding for 27 years, booking his own mounts for about 12 of those, and overcoming a pair of open heart surgeries a decade earlier, Dupoy was a testament to dedication. Baltimore-born but raised in the Charles Town area, Dupuy was the second leading rider at Charles Town in 1998, winning at 18.7 percent and he hit the board 50.5 percent of the time.
  Dupuy would reach 3,204 wins in a career that lasted through 2000.
  
  
• Maryland’s Stallion, Broodmare and Breeder of the Year for 1998 were announced, with stallion honors going to Polish Numbers, who topped all regional sires with $3.4 million in progeny earnings. Allen and Audrey Murray’s stakes-winning Big Pride was the dam of three foals of racing age in 1998, all stakes performers, including graded winner Chip. Tom and Chris Bowman reached a high mark, taking their first honor as co-breeders of four stakes winners, topped by Polish Numbers’ Grade 1-winning daughter Tenski. 
  
  
• Bet Twice, winner of the 1987 Belmont Stakes-G1, died of an apparent aneurysm at Robert Levy’s Muirfield East in Chesapeake City, Md., where he was a pensioner since 1996. The son of Sportin’ Life raced for Blanche Levy and Cisley Stable and trainer Jimmy Croll. In addition to his 14-length win in the Belmont over Cryptoclearance, Gulch and Kentucky Derby/Preakness winner Alysheba, he captured that season’s Haskell Invitational-G1 and came back to win the revived Pimlico Special the next year. Retired to stud in Kentucky, he was moved to Maryland for 1994.
  
  
• The 1998 auction recap highlighted Northview Stallion Station’s Two Punch, who led Mid-Atlantic sires by average in all categories – weanlings ($51,750, four sold), yearlings ($66,333, 15 sold) and 2-year-olds ($137,556, nine sold). Six of the top 10 juveniles were by Two Punch.
  The most expensive Mid-Atlantic-bred was the Pennsylvania-bred Storm Cat yearling High Yield, sold by Betty Moran’s Brushwood Stable to Demi O’Byrne for $1.05 million.