Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award semifinalists announced

Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award semifinalists announced

Castleton Lyons revealed the semifinalists for the seventh annual Dr. Tony

Ryan Book Award on Monday.

Conceived and launched in 2006 by the late Castleton Lyons owner Dr. Tony

Ryan, the Award has annually showcased the best of racing literature. Originally

known as the Castleton Lyons Book Award, the name was changed to honor its

founder, who passed away in 2007. Ryan's son Shane has carried on the contest

each spring since.

The semifinalists are listed below, in alphabetical order by title:

Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing

Author: Patrick Smithwick

Publisher: Chesapeake Publishing

Kentucky Derby Dreams: The Making of Thoroughbred Champions

Author: Susan Nusser

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

My Year of the Racehorse 

Author: Kevin Chong

Publisher: Greystone Books

Racing From Death

Author: Sasscer Hill

Publisher: Wildside Press

The Garrett Gomez Story: A Jockey's Journey Through Addiction and

Salvation

Author: Rudolph  Alvarado, with Garrett Keith Gomez

Publisher: Caballo Press of Ann Arbor

The Kentucky Derby: How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier

Sporting Event 

Author: James C. Nicholson

Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky

When Racing Was Racing – A Century of Horse Racing

Author: Adam Powley

Publisher: Haynes Publishing

Three from that list will be chosen as finalists, in a further announcement

planned for next Monday.

The winner of the 2012 Book Award will be announced on April 10 at Castleton

Lyons, during a cocktail reception held in a room above the farm's historic

stallion barn.

First prize is $10,000, with $1,000 awarded to each runner-up. In addition,

all three finalists will receive a Tipperary Crystal trophy.

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