Picklesimer promoted to Turfway Park's director of racing/secretary

Picklesimer promoted to Turfway Park's director of

racing/secretary

A 1994 graduate of Northern Kentucky University,

Picklesimer was hired by Turfway Park that year as a placing judge. He has

additionally served Turfway as an alternate association steward, clocker and

paddock judge. Picklesimer also is an association steward at Ellis Park and has

filled that same role at Keeneland and The Red Mile. As personnel needs change

from meet to meet, he continues to fill various roles at Keeneland and at

Churchill Downs, including alternate association steward, paddock judge, placing

judge and stakes coordinator.

From 1997 to 2000 Picklesimer worked as the horse identifier at

River Downs, and since 1998 he has been a tattoo technician for the Thoroughbred

Racing Protective Bureau (TRPB). Since 2010 he has served on the Horse Identification

and Microchip Committee of the North American Racing Secretaries Association.

In 2008 Picklesimer earned the dual position of director of

racing and racing secretary for the Thoroughbred meet at Colonial Downs in New

Kent, Virginia, a role he continues. He also serves the Virginia Racing Commission on

the Racing Safety and Medications Committee, the Code Revision and Rules

Committee and the Virginia Breeders Fund Advisory Committee.

Overlapping the early years of his career in racing,

Picklesimer previously was director of security and ushers at Riverbend Music

Center in Cincinnati.

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