TH E N O M I N ATI O N S
SPECIALIST WRITER of the Year
The Specialist Writer award is the second of two new categories we have introduced this year. Few sports lend themselves better to such forensic analysis as horseracing, and those who specialise in this area have been overlooked for too long when it comes to these awards.
MATT BISOGNO
KEVIN BLAKE
PAUL KEALY
SIMON ROWLANDS
The response from the membership since the new award was announced has been most gratifying, and the entries received from some of the best brains in the racing media reflected a broad range of expertise with ground-breaking analysis of new and exciting fields featuring alongside more traditional areas of investigation in the worlds of betting, bloodstock, international racing and tipping. Narrowing the final field to just four proved invidious. In addition to the final quartet, about whom you will learn more overleaf, the HWPA would like to commend the excellent work submitted by Ben Hutton, Keith Melrose, Andrew Mount, Simon Nott, Tom Peacock, Tom Richmond and James Thomas, plus former finalists in other categories Emma Berry, Nick Godfrey and Lissa Oliver, and multiple former Clive Graham Trophy winner Chris McGrath. They will have further opportunities, for this award is here to stay.
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