Shannon Luce, The Jockey Club's communications manager since 2012, has been named TJC's director of communications effective Jan. 1, 2018. She will succeed Bob Curran, Jr., who is retiring from his post as vice president of corporate communications at the end of the year.
“Shannon has taken on a growing number of responsibilities over the course of the past 12 years or so, and she has handled them all with the utmost diligence,” The Jockey Club president and CEO James Gagliano said. “Her industry knowledge, her familiarity with various stakeholders, and her writing and editing skills will all help her thrive in this new assignment.”
Luce, a longtime resident of Versailles, KY, joined The Jockey Club as a staff writer in 2005 before later being promoted to communications coordinator and later communications manager. She and her husband Pete Swisher own two retired Thoroughbreds on their Versailles farm.
Curran joined The Jockey Club staff in 1998 following almost a dozen years with Thoroughbred Racing Communications, an industry-funded media relations office located in The Jockey Club's New York office. He was promoted to vice president of corporate communications in 2001. A former president of the Turf Publicists of America, he received the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program's Clay Puett Award this year for his outstanding contributions to the racing industry. Curran will serve as a consultant to The Jockey Club in 2018.
“Bob retires at the very top of his profession. His high integrity standards, intense work ethic and dedication to his craft set him apart,” said Gagliano. “His daily presence will be missed by everyone at The Jockey Club and by his many colleagues throughout the sport.”
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