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At eleven years and counting, the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award continues to garner growing interest within the racing and literary communities, with a near-record number of entries for 2016. In addition to quantity, the quality of this year’s submissions...

FINALISTS PRESS RELEASE   Three finalists for the tenth annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award have been announced by the Ryan family’s Castleton Lyons, founding sponsor of this lucrative competition for racing-oriented literary works since 2006. Jockeys ruled the day in...

There is a dominant theme in this, the tenth anniversary of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, with five of the six semi-finalists focusing on jockeys and backstretch workers. This impressive group includes two novels, an artistic coffee table book,...

ENTRIES BEING TAKEN FOR 2015 DR. TONY RYAN BOOK AWARD Lexington, Kentucky—Castleton Lyons is pleased to continue its sponsorship of the annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, a competition recognizing excellence in writing in the Thoroughbred industry.  Entries are now...

Plattner wins Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award Lexington, Ky. — Offerings From a Rust Belt Jockey, by Andrew Plattner and published by Dzanc Books of Ann Arbor, Mich., was named winner of the $10,000 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award at an...