{"id":11345,"date":"2013-12-11T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/maryland-jockey-club-initiates-new-fundraising-concept\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:11:00","slug":"maryland-jockey-club-initiates-new-fundraising-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/maryland-jockey-club-initiates-new-fundraising-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Jockey Club initiates new fundraising concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Maryland Jockey Club announced Wednesday the implementation of a new fundraising concept built around the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the last four years, Pimlico has celebrated and supported the empowerment of women by bringing that commitment to light on Black-Eyed Susan Day,&#8221; said Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas. &#8220;Next year&#8217;s Black-Eyed Susan Day will prove to be an important evolution of this celebration, serving as our platform to honor the spirit and strength of women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A year-round fundraising concept, Empowerment 360, will support women through mentoring workshops with multiple workshops throughout the year leading up to Black-Eyed Susan Day. The 1 1\/8-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies is held the day before the Preakness Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an opportunity to recruit and engage a younger audience by making a positive impact in the community,&#8221; added Chuckas. &#8220;We are going to pick a different charity each year in hopes of broadening the brand, making the event &#8216;The Ultimate Girls Day Out&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Maryland Jockey Club announced Wednesday the implementation of a new fundraising concept built around the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. &#8220;For the last four years, Pimlico has celebrated and supported the empowerment of women by bringing that commitment to light on Black-Eyed Susan Day,&#8221; said Maryland Jockey Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}