Mary Simon of Daily Racing Form has won the 2015 Media Eclipse Award in the Audio/Multi-Media and Internet category for “Regret's Derby at 100: Filly Made a Case for Equality,” the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced Monday.
“I was thrilled that we won this award because it was a collaborative effort, which formed a beautiful multi-media piece,” said Simon, who lives in Lexington.”I have always been a racing historian. Regret has fascinated me all along and the fact that she came along at the peak of the women's suffrage movement, she was a wonderful inspiration for gender equality. So much started changing at the time and Regret was also symbolic of what was going on.”
Honorable mention in the Audio/Multi-Media and Internet category went to Thoroughbred Daily News for “The Education of Bobby Flay,” written by Lucas Marquardt, which appeared on the TDN website on Oct. 28, 2015 and Sirius XM radio for “Allen Jerkens Remembered,” produced by Steve Byk, which aired on Mar. 15, 2015.
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