Fox Takes Home Pair of Media Eclipses; TDN Garners Two Honorable Mentions

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FOX Sports led all entrants with two Media Eclipse wins–their first live television programming win ever–when the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form (DRF), and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB) announced the winners of the 2025 Media Eclipse Awards in six categories on Jan. 8. Every entry must have been primarily published or aired for the first time between Nov. 16, 2024, and Nov. 14, 2025.

Honorable mention in the multimedia category went to TDN's Katie Petrunyak for 'Breeders' Cup Breakthrough: For Kevin Attard, Moira's Win More Than A Milestone' and to Christina Bossinakis for 'Tenacious Emma-Jayne Wilson Poised For Next Comeback'.

The 2025 Media Eclipse Award winners are as follows:

 

• Live Television Programming–FOX Sports, “The Belmont Stakes,” Michael Mulvihill, President–Insight & Analytics, June 7, 2025. This is a first Eclipse for FOX for its live broadcast of the 157th running of the GI Belmont Stakes from Saratoga.

 

• Feature Television–FOX Sports, “The Healing Ride,” Michael Mulvihill President–Insight & Analytics, June 7, 2025. The second TV Feature Award for FOX, following on from a Rachel Alexandra profile in 2019, “The Healing Ride” profiled the Mott racing family and the devastating loss of Margot Mott, daughter of trainer Riley Mott and his wife, Megan, and granddaughter to Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. Margot lost her battle to a form of brain cancer at age two in 2024.

 

• Writing–News/Enterprise–Natalie Voss, Paulick Report– “Doom Scroll: Thoroughbreds, Bail Pens, And Horse Traders,” December 2024. In her four-part series, “Doom Scroll: Thoroughbreds, Bail Pens, And Horse Traders,” which was published in the Paulick Report in December 2024, Natalie Voss provided an in-depth analysis on the methods, reactions and ramifications of bail pens, a new and growing economy in which horses, including many Thoroughbreds, are offered for sale to the public under the threat that they will be exported and rendered for meat if a steep “bail price” isn't paid.

 

• Writing–Feature/Commentary–Jay Privman, DRF.com and Daily Racing Form, “Lukas Morphed from Caustic to Avuncular,” June 29, 2025. The retired columnist recalled the dynamic career of the late Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas and his personal evolution during more than four decades as a vital force in Thoroughbred racing. The article first appeared on the Daily Racing Form's website DRF.com on June 29, the day following Lukas's passing.

 

• Photography–Skip Dickstein, “Unseated,” The Albany Times-Union and BloodHorse, Aug. 31, 2025. Dickstein his second Eclipse Award for Outstanding Photography for his image of an unseated Irad Ortiz Jr. taken after the start of the Aug. 31, 2025, Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

 

• Multimedia–Augusta Chapman and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics Radio “The Horse is Us: Inside the Horse-Industrial Complex,” Oct. 31, 2025. examined the wide-ranging world of horse racing, and discussed the various facets of the industry through from the life of the jockey, to breeding, auction sales, and issues from artificial insemination to recent changes in U.S. immigration policy. The program, the second of the three-part series “The Horse is Us,” was produced by Augusta Chapman and hosted by Stephen Dubner. The program first aired last year on Oct. 31.

Media Eclipse Award winners will be presented their trophies at the 55th Annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards Ceremony and Dinner at The Breakers Palm Beach in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 22.

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