Thoroughbred

CCI4* Event Horse Charmed Victory’s Breeder Joins Maryland Jockey Club Board

Eventing, Racing

On Friday, May 9, the Maryland Thoroughbred Racetrack Operating Authority (MTROA) named Lisa Hostetter of Olney to the Maryland Jockey Club’s Board of Directors. Hostetter co-owns Northview Stallion Station and Sycamore Hall Farms, both in Chesapeake City. Northview began operations on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1989 and since then, its stallions have won Maryland Stallion of the Year for 28 consecutive years; Not for Love for 10 years and Great Notion every year since 2016. For us, however, Northview’s best known horse is the international eventer Charmed Victory, a 2013 gelding by Flatter out of Sycamore Hall’s American Victory (Victory Gallop (CAN)). Charmed Victory has contested 22 international competitions since 2020 and has finished in the top ten in four of them — two CCI3*s and two CCI4*s. His international career begin in 2020 with Pennsylvania-based Kaelen Speck. The pair completed 13 international completions together over the next ...
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Timothy Keefe, Thoroughbred Trainer & Sport Horse Breeder, Named to the New Maryland Jockey Club

Eventing, Racing

Timothy L. Keefe, Thoroughbred trainer and breeder, past President of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, and Board Member of the new Maryland Jockey Club. Photo source: Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association The Maryland Thoroughbred Racetrack Operating Authority announced today that Thoroughbred trainer and breeder Tim Keefe of Sandy Spring was named to the new Maryland Jockey Club’s Board of Directors. Keefe has been a fixture — a well-regarded one at that — in the Maryland racing scene for decades. Less well-known, however, is his role in breeding and training Thoroughbreds that then go on to successful second careers as show jumpers and upper level event horses. Here are a few of Keefe’s Thoroughbreds that are competing this season. Act Lively: Bred in Maryland and trained by Keefe, this 2020 gelding is by Astern out of Kiss the Prince (Any Given Saturday). He last raced in May 2024 and started his eventing ...
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Winners Roundup: January 2025

Results

The US Equestrian competition results for January are in (mostly), which means it is time to celebrate the first Maryland-bred winners of 2025. Maryland produced 10 winners in USEF-sanctioned events in January across four different disciplines — one Grand Prix Dressage winner, two Show Jumping winners, one Event horse winner, and five Hunter winners. The January winners show the diversity of Maryland’s breeding industry. Four of the winning Maryland-breds are Welsh pony types, three are off-the-track Thoroughbreds, one is an Oldenburg, one is a Hanoverian, and one is a Zangersheide. Dressage Vianne, is a 2016 Hanoverian mare bred by Catherine Haddad, foaled at Hilltop Farm in Colora, whose greatest accomplishment to date is winning Bronze in Para Dressage at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. She started her 2025 seasaon by winning two Para Grand Prix classes in Wellington, Florida — the CPEDI3* FEI Para Grand Prix class at the January ...
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Weekend Winners — Dec. 7-8, 2024

Results

Two Maryland Sport Horses brought home wins over the first weekend in December, one in Dressage and one in Eventing. On Saturday, December 7, Timothy Kammerer’s Holsteiner mare Epona WEF (Quinar x Rania (R Saluut II)) won the Third Level Test 1 class at the Stable View Winter Wonderland Dressage competition in South Carolina. This was Epona’s third win at the Third Level, the previous two being at the Summer Solstice competition in South Carolina on June 15, and the Spring Fever competition, also in South Carolina, on Apr. 20. Kammerer owns Sparling Rock Farm in Barnesville. Also on Saturday, trainer Tim Keefe’s unraced Thoroughbred gelding Wonderful Courage (Bourbon Courage x Wonderful Secret (Stevie Wonderboy)) won the Junior Training Rider division at the Rocking Horse December Horse Trial in Florida. This was the gelding’s third outing at the Training level. His first was at the Ocala Festival of Eventing last ...
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