Mary Rampellini, a North Texas horse racing reporter who covered the sport for the Star-Telegram at the dawn of Lone Star Park, died Saturday at age 53.
The Daily Racing Form said she died of complications from sepsis at a hospital in Grapevine. She had been a full-time reporter and handicapper for the Racing Form for 24 years, the publication said.
Ralph E. Rampellini, her younger brother, offered a remembrance of Mary in the Racing Form…