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Racing’s Big Night

It’s a bit of whirlwind trip, but I made it to Beverly Hills for tonight’s Eclipse Awards ceremony. After following Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta this year, and having had the good fortune to be at both of their emphatic final 2009 races, it seemed foolish not to head to California — especially when a non-stop plane ticket could be had for a small price — to hear which super distaffer would win Horse of the Year.

I’ll be doing the live blog thing below (and occasionally tweeting) beginning around 4:00 PM PT/7:00 PM ET. Since TVG is airing the awards show, and online sources for updates on who-won-what abound, breaking news won’t be my focus. Instead, it’ll be glimpses of what’s happening backstage, literally and otherwise.


4 Comments

Good Luck Jessica . . .

Let’s get it started !!

Posted by John on January 18, 2010 @ 7:06 pm

Please tell me you took pictures of the event.

And made Mr. Blackwell’s “best dressed” list for the evening. ;-)

Posted by The_Knight_Sky on January 19, 2010 @ 12:07 pm

Only a few pictures, of which a couple may make it to Flickr.

I think Mr. Blackwell would have found several candidates for his list at the dinner — Barbara Banke looked incredible!

Posted by Jessica on January 21, 2010 @ 2:45 am

I’ll have to check out the Flickr Photostream.

then contact Mr. Blackwell.

My work is never done. :D

Posted by The_Knight_Sky on January 25, 2010 @ 11:42 pm