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Get your tickets now to join the dapper team from YOICKS! on Saturday, September 29th as they host the 6th annual Rally on the Rail at the Legacy Chase Steeplechase at Shawan Downs. Proceeds support Gilchrist Kids.

This ultimate tailgate includes a picnic-style buffet lunch by Rouge Fine Catering, Southsides and top-shelf cash bar, race day games and auctions, vendor trunk show, and of course, a front row seat to all the action in The Old Line tent along the stretch.

Click HERE to purchase Tickets and Parking Passes.

Yoicks! specializes in traditional country clothing and equestrian-based sporting art. Along with their usual selection of traditional British clothing brands such as Lock Hatters and Corgi Socks, they will also present a preview exhibition of furniture, paintings and bronzes.

Additional Information can be found on the Rally on the Rail event page.

CONTACT: YOICKS!

10738 York Rd., Cockeysville

410-236-6050

By way of Yowp's excellent blog of early television development, ultimately by way of the New Rochelle (NY) Standard-Star for May 16, 1940:

Mrs. John S. Merritt of 9 Leffingwell Place, who claims to be the city’s first participant in a television broadcast, appeared last night [15] on Paul Wing’s spelling bee televised by NBC from their studios in New York. Friends and relatives, who were gathered about the Merritt home, waited anxiously for Mrs. Merritt’s appearance. She came on and the announcer asked her to spell “yoicks.” Mrs. Merritt hesitated a bit and then answered “y-o-i-c-k-e-s.” She got the “gong.” “I’d never seen or heard the word before,” she said today. Yoicks is an exclamation used to urge foxhounds in a chase. It was Mrs. Merritt’s first venture in radio or television—and “undoubtedly my last,” she said.