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Jay Hovdey

Jay Hovdey, author of the series Favorite Racehorses and Horse Racing Goes to the Movies for Thoroughbred Racing Commentary, is a five-time Eclipse Award winner for turf writing, winner of the Walter Haight Award for career excellence, and a member of the Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY.

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  • ‘Enough pathos to choke a beggar’ – liberties are taken but star-studded movie helps sustain a Kentucky Derby legend
    Commentary

    ‘Enough pathos to choke a beggar’ – liberties are taken but star-studded movie helps sustain a Kentucky Derby legend

    Jay Hovdey  |  May 4, 2025  | 
  • Funny Cide: ‘You couldn’t help but fall in love with him’ – remembering a blue-collar Kentucky Derby hero
    Jay Hovdey's Favorite Racehorses

    Funny Cide: ‘You couldn’t help but fall in love with him’ – remembering a blue-collar Kentucky Derby hero

    Jay Hovdey  |  Apr 28, 2025  | 
  • Believing big: Eclipse Thoroughbreds founder Aron Wellman writes his own Kentucky Derby story with Journalism
    Racing

    Believing big: Eclipse Thoroughbreds founder Aron Wellman writes his own Kentucky Derby story with Journalism

    Jay Hovdey  |  Apr 27, 2025  | 
  • ‘A by-the-numbers skimming of the Thoroughbred world’ – why it’s hard to be sympathetic to Simpatico
    Commentary

    ‘A by-the-numbers skimming of the Thoroughbred world’ – why it’s hard to be sympathetic to Simpatico

    Jay Hovdey  |  Apr 6, 2025  | 
  • Well Armed: ‘This horse, what he’s meant to us in so many ways, it’s impossible to describe’
    Jay Hovdey's Favorite Racehorses

    Well Armed: ‘This horse, what he’s meant to us in so many ways, it’s impossible to describe’

    Jay Hovdey  |  Mar 31, 2025  | 
  • Romantic fatalism, honest and free from phony melodrama – Jay Hovdey on Lean On Pete
    Commentary

    Romantic fatalism, honest and free from phony melodrama – Jay Hovdey on Lean On Pete

    Jay Hovdey  |  Mar 2, 2025  | 
  • The perfect season: remembering Cigar’s incredible 1995
    Commentary

    The perfect season: remembering Cigar’s incredible 1995

    Jay Hovdey  |  Feb 24, 2025  | 
  • Hollywood Wildcat: ‘She made my job easy’ – Eddie Delahoussaye
    Jay Hovdey's Favorite Racehorses

    Hollywood Wildcat: ‘She made my job easy’ – Eddie Delahoussaye

    Jay Hovdey  |  Feb 18, 2025  | 
  • Henry Fonda double bill: when a celluloid hero tried his hand at horse racing – twice in two years
    Commentary

    Henry Fonda double bill: when a celluloid hero tried his hand at horse racing – twice in two years

    Jay Hovdey  |  Feb 9, 2025  | 
  • ‘Everyone in the Southern California racing community knew someone tragically impacted’ – Jay Hovdey reflects on the LA wildfires
    Commentary

    ‘Everyone in the Southern California racing community knew someone tragically impacted’ – Jay Hovdey reflects on the LA wildfires

    Jay Hovdey  |  Jan 25, 2025  | 
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