Eclipse Press Author Julia McEvoy Wins Peabody Award
For Radio Series
LEXINGTON, KY - Julia McEvoy, co-author of Women in Racing, published
by Eclipse Press, has received a prestigious Peabody Award for the
Chicago Public Radio series "Stories of Home," which aired
last spring. The eleven first-person stories sought to examine the
unusual ways people think about home through intimate looks at the
lives of Chicagoans. McEvoy was executive producer of the series.
McEvoy previously has won an Eclipse Award for outstanding radio coverage
of Thoroughbred racing.
In Women in Racing, McEvoy and her father, racing journalist John
McEvoy, interviewed women in all facets of the sport. Well-known sports
commentator Charlsie Cantey, top trainer Jenine Sahadi, and retired
jockey Donna Barton are among the women profiled. Women in Racing
is available through Exclusively Equine at www.ExclusivelyEquine.com
and is available through other fine book sellers.
Eclipse Press is dedicated to the enjoyment and welfare of the horse.
Titles range from practical aspects of hands-on horsemanship to equine
art and retrospectives on the great Thoroughbred racehorses. For more
information on Eclipse Press, visit http://www.EclipsePress.com.
Eclipse Press is a division of Blood-Horse Publications, a multimedia
publishing company that traces it roots to 1916. Blood-Horse Publications'
flagship publication, The Blood-Horse, is the Thoroughbred industry’s
premier source for racing and breeding news and information, and the
oldest continually published North American Thoroughbred magazine.
Blood-Horse Publications also publishes The Horse, a monthly equine
health care magazine; the official Kentucky Derby and World Thoroughbred
Championships/Breeders' Cup souvenir magazines; Auction Edge; Keeneland
magazine; and the Eclipse Awards program. In addition, Blood-Horse
Publications also operates a family of leading Web sites including
bloodhorse.com and TheHorse.com.
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