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Timonium woman killed in Manor Road accident A 20-year-old Timonium woman was killed early yesterday morning after her friend lost control of the car he was driving on Manor Road, Baltimore County police said yesterday. Mary Brooke Betz of the first block of Blondell Court was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The driver, Emmanuel Pizanis, 19, of the 2000 block of Fountain Hill Drive, also in Timonium, was transported by helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was in serious condition last night.

A Timonium man was pronounced dead yesterday evening after his car ran off westbound Interstate 70 and overturned after crossing the Patapsco River bridge into Howard County, state police said. The victim, Anthony Rettaliata Jr., 53, appeared to be driving erratically before his 1998 Chevrolet Lumina overturned near the shoulder of the highway, witnesses told police - an indication, police said, that he might have been experiencing a medical problem. The lone occupant of the car, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Kirschner Medical Corp. said it has agreed to sell its veterinary orthopedic business and its 77,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Timonium to the privately held Osteo-Technology International Inc.Terms were not disclosed. Kirschner's veterinary business had sales last year of $1.5 million.Kirschner announced in May that it planned to sell the Timonium facility.The financially strapped firm late last month concluded an agreement with Maryland National Bank to restructure $17.3 million in debt.

The managements of Timonium Race Course and Maryland's mile thoroughbred tracks, once considered bitter enemies for racing dates and legislative support, have forged a rare partnership in an effort to keep the half-mile oval open for 10 days of live racing during the Maryland State Fair, which begins Aug. 27.For the first time, Timonium will tie into the mile tracks' eight-outlet system of inter-track wagering facilities and off-track betting parlors, splitting...

Say you're on a motorcycle. Say that motorcycle is zooming around a concrete track. Say other drivers (many) are attempting to pass you, desperately. There you have the "Timonium Motorcycle Races," a short-track racing event that takes place tomorrow, Saturday and Dec. 21 inside the Cow Palace at the Timonium Fairgrounds. The races are open to riders ages 6 to 60, with heats based on size of motorcycle and riders' age. You say you're not brave enough to perform such a feat and would much rather just watch the action?

Business dropped dramatically last summer at the annual Timonium meeting, so much so that discussions surfaced about abandoning horse racing at the York Road track.But, thanks to a plunge into the world of simulcasting and commingling, the tradition has survived and the 1994 Timonium meet starts today with more exposure than ever.The daily cards from the only short-distance track in the state still running will be beamed into all the Maryland betting outlets, including Laurel, Pimlico, Rosecroft, Delmarva and the off-track betting parlors.

More than $13 million changed hands and several records fell at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's two-day auction of 2-year-old thoroughbreds Monday and Tuesday at the Timonium fairgrounds. Records were set for gross sales, average price and highest-priced horse. A Kentucky-bred bay filly by Silver Deputy out of Livia B brought $450,000, a record for the 2-year-old sale and probably a record for any sale at Timonium, said Mason Grasty, executive vice president of the Elkton sales company. Grasty said it was the highest price in the 14 years he's been involved at Timonium.

The annual 10-day race meet at the Timonium Fairgrounds begins today with an 11-race program that includes the first simulcast in the track's 110-year history.Today's $200,000 Hopeful Stakes from Saratoga Race Course is the first of six out-of-town simulcasts to the five-eighths-mile track. The live feature is the Robert F. Hale Memorial, a $12,000 allowance sprint named for the late father of Georgeanne Hale, Timonium racing secretary. Hale is the only working female racing secretary in the country.

Buyers hoping for another Urbane or Smoke Glacken paid $5,090,700 for 368 thoroughbreds at the annual two-day Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale that concluded yesterday at Timonium.This was the first time at a yearling sale in Maryland that the $5 million mark was surpassed. Four yearlings sold for more than $100,000 each.In the regular session late Monday and yesterday, 226 yearlings sold for $1,492,100 -- an average of $6,602, compared to $5,861 at last fall's sale. In the selected session Monday, 142 yearlings sold for $3,598,600 -- an average of $25,342, compared to last fall's $23,674.

A subsidiary of First National Bank of Maryland went into the hotel business yesterday, acquiring the 250-room Timonium Plaza Holiday Inn at auction for $8 million.First National was the lender that began foreclosure proceedings last month against the hotel's owners, Timonium-AMI Limited Partnership, a group headed by New Jersey businessman Fred Lafer. Bank officials claimed Mr. Lafer's group defaulted on nearly $16 million in debt.James Smith, an attorney representing the bank, declined to comment on the sale, which was handled by Atlantic Auctions Inc. Raymond Nichols, president of Atlantic Auctions Inc., confirmed that the bank subsidiary was the high bidder.