Sally Goswell, Fair Hill Training Center General Manager, died Sept. 28
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- October 1, 2026
- By Staff Writers
Sally Goswell, 72, longtime general manager of Maryland’s Fair Hill Training Center, died peacefully at her home in Newark, Del., on Sept. 28 of pancreatic cancer.
Sally GoswellSally was born Oct. 6, 1953 in Washington, D.C., to Frank R. Stoner III and Sarah Sutherland Stoner.
She grew up in Sewickley, Pa., northwest of Pittsburgh and rode show horses, including a top pony named Ace Of Spades.
Sally’s love for horses continued into her college years while attending Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she galloped horses at Pimlico Race Course every chance she got and met her future husband, Michael “Mike” Goswell.
Sally and Mike were married in 1976, began operating a Thoroughbred training business on the Maryland racetrack circuit and eventually bought a barn at Fair Hill.
“I was working for Kenny Field and she was galloping for Billy Christmas,” said Mike this week of their early days together. “When I went out on my own, she was the groom for the two or three horses we had and kept working in the barn even after we had our boys. She had a backpack and one of them was in it most of the time.”
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