Castleton Lyons seeks submissions for eighth annual Ryan Book Award

Castleton Lyons seeks submissions for eighth annual Ryan

Book Award

Castleton Lyons will again be sponsoring the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, a

competition recognizing excellence in writing in the Thoroughbred industry, and

entries are now being taken for the eighth annual award. The award, which comes

with a $10,000 winner's prize and a Tipperary Crystal trophy, is named for the

late Castleton Lyons owner Dr. Tony Ryan, whose twin passions for great writing

and quality horse racing led to his launch of the competition in 2006.

"We have had seven excellent Book Award winners to date and I have no doubt

that 2013 will once again prove to be a year of outstanding quality in equine

literature. Our sponsorship of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award gives me great

pleasure as it is a wonderful forum to promote and reward equine writing as my

father intended when he founded this award in 2006," Castleton Lyons President

Shane Ryan said.

Qualifying entries must have been published during the 2013 calendar year,

and may represent any genre, including history, human or equine biography,

investigative reporting, hands-on/how-to, photo essay, and fiction, so long as

it is related to some aspect of horse racing. A copy of the nomination form is

available on the

Castleton Lyons website.

Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2013. Finalists will be announced in

March, and the winner will be named at an April awards ceremony held in a

picturesque loft above Castleton Lyons' stallion barn. In addition to the

$10,000 winner's check, two runners-up will each receive crystal trophies and

$1,000.

Past winners, finalists and semi-finalists in the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award

competition have included best-selling mystery author Dick Francis, 2010

National Book Award recipient Jaimy Gordon, and multiple Eclipse Award honorees

William Nack, Joe Drape, Bill Mooney and Maryjean Wall.

Previous winners of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award:

2012 Patrick Smithwick, Flying Change: A year of Racing

and Family and Steeplechasing

2011 Milt Toby, Dancer's Image: The Forgotten Story of

the 1968 Kentucky Derby

2010 Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule

2009 James E. "Ted" Bassett and Bill Mooney, Keeneland's

Ted Bassett: My Life

2008 Rudy Alvarado, The Untold Story of Joe Hernandez:

The Voice of Santa Anita

2007 T. D. Thornton, Not By a Long Shot: A Season at a

Hard-Luck Horse Track

2006 Joe Drape, Black Maestro

For more information, contact Stuart Fitzgibbon at Castleton Lyons, (859)

455-9222 or sfitzgibbon@castletonlyons.com.

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