Three finalists have been selected for the 13th annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, given yearly to recognize “book-length race-writing of the highest quality.” Shane Ryan hosts the awards at Castleton Lyons near Lexington, Ky., in honor of his late father.
The finalists are Patrick Lawrence Gilligan, author of Around Kentucky With the Bug!, a journal of a year in the life an apprentice jockey; Andy Plattner, whose Dixie Luck is a collection of fictional stories about the racetrack; and the team of Linda Carroll and David Rosner, co-authors of Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt who Conquered the Sport of Kings, a biography of Hirsch Jacobs and Stymie.
The winner, who will be awarded $10,000, will be announced Apr. 10 at an invitation-only reception. Judges are Kay Coyte, former managing editor of the Washington Post-Bloomberg News Service; Caton Bredar, longtime television broadcaster and racing analyst; and Jayne Moore Waldrop, a writer, attorney and poetry author.
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