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Breeders' Cup Juvenile: Alan Heitner
Alan Heitner is an accountant from Long Island, New York. Along with his Maryland-based brother, Alan blogs at thebugboys.blogspot.com, and is a proud member of the Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance. A horse racing fan for only 5 years, Alan enjoys reading and writing about jockeys, the breeding industry, New York racing and unusual observations of the sport.
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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Filly: Brock Sheridan
Brock Sheridan is a life-long horse racing fan having helped his father train race horses while growing up in Arizona and Colorado. Sheridan graduated from the University of Arizona Race Track Industry program in 1982 and began a career of public relations, marketing and television production in horse racing that has spanned 25 years. Sheridan blogs at The Brock Talk and has many Facebook projects.
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Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile: Gene Kershner
Gene Kershner hails from Buffalo, New York, summers in Saratoga Springs and writes the EquiSpace blog when he's not counting beans for a living.
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Breeders' Cup Foreign Contenders: Gina Rarick
Gina Rarick trains outside Paris, France. She spent 15 years as a turf writer and editor at the International Herald Tribune and still contributes to the New York Times. Her blog can be found at www.gallopfrance.com.
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Breeders' Cup Mile: Greg Calabrese
A throwback to the days of when the grandstands were packed. His trade is picking winners and the method is existential handicapping. Aqueduct is home. Power Cap Blog.
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Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic: Kevin Stafford
Kevin Stafford is a 31-year-old father of two and a diehard racing fan from Hanover, PA. He blogs at www.theaspiringhorseplayer.com and has been both a member of the NTRA Online Marketing Task Force and a featured writer at the TVG Community.
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Breeders' Cup Marathon: Lisa Grimm
Lisa Grimm is an archivist, homebrewer and racing fan who blogs at Superfectablog.com. While she recognizes that we're not going to return to the 3-mile heats of 19th century racing, she welcomes the Marathon as a step in the right direction.
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Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf: Patrick Patten
Patrick Patten is a homer for Monmouth Park who maintains the Handride blog. He's been a filly & mare turf fan since Starine took a liking to the off going at Arlington.
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Breeders' Cup Classic: Ryan Patterson
Ryan Patterson is a student at the University of Cincinnati and a die hard horse racing fan. He has been writing at www.gradedstakes.com for over two years and his work has been published in HorsePlayer Magazine.
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Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint: Steve Zorn
Steve Zorn is Racing Manager for Castle Village Farm thoroughbred partnerships. He blogs at The Business of Racing blog on TBA, and, probably least important, is a tax and trusts and estates lawyer in New York.
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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf: Terry Flanagan
Terry Flanagan is a New Jersey-based racing fan who blogs at RedRockorBust after previous stints as a racing columnist for the Asbury Park Press and blogger at MonmouthParkBlog.
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Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint: Valerie Grash
Valerie Grash teaches art history at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, but has been a life-long horse racing fan. Her primary blog is named after her childhood favorite, Foolish Pleasure, and recently she began a second dedicated to great fillies and mares, http://filliesfirst.blogspot.com. It is her greatest wish that Xtra Heat be elected into the Hall of Fame.
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Breeders' Cup Turf: Stephen Alicknovic
Stephen Alicknovic is a passionate Thoroughbred racing fan/analyst, a skilled handicapper and a strong promoter of the sport of Thoroughbred racing. Stephen has a keen eye for spotting young horses with champion potential. Thus he created http://ThoroughbredZone.com, a website for thoroughbred racing enthusiasts. Connect with Stephen on Twitter @ThorobredZone where he enthusiastically discusses the latest in ThoroughbredZone.Com.
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Breeders' Cup Sprint: Alan Mann
Alan Mann lost his first-ever bet on a horse race at Aqueduct circa 1970, when his selection fell over the final fence of a steeplechase after opening an insurmountable lead. Rather than taking the hint, he became a regular at the New York harness tracks before getting hooked for good on thoroughbreds, and has been an avid handicapper and fan for the last three decades. Alan started the blog Left at the Gate when left with nothing better to do during the NHL lockout in January 2005.
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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Filly: Jennifer Decker
Jennifer Decker's interest in racing first manifested at the age of nine, when she was given a copy of The Black Stallion for her birthday. Four years later she watched Alysheba overcome all odds to win the Kentucky Derby, and her love for the sport was complete. Most of her life, her trade as a groom took her across the country and back again: From the wilds of Michigan, to the stock farms of Kentucky, and into the racing mecca of south Florida. Currently she resides in Tucson, Arizona; where she continues to peruse the Stakes cards on a lark, and longs for the day local government will allow online wagering in her county (if only to be able to watch HRTV). Her blog can be found at Down the Stretch.
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