Tom Law, a two-time Eclipse Award-winning turf writer and managing editor of ST Publishing–which produces The Saratoga Special and Thisishorseracing.com–will receive the 'Old Hilltop Award' for covering Thoroughbred racing with excellence and distinction during the annual Alibi Breakfast at Pimlico Race Course on Thursday, May 15.
A native and current resident of Saratoga Springs, New York, Law began covering racing at The Saratogian in 1994 and is a past president of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB). He has also been recognized with the Red Smith Kentucky Derby Writing Award, the David F. Woods Memorial Preakness Writing Award, and is a two-time Joe Hirsch Memorial Belmont Stakes Writing Award winner.
“It's an incredible honor to receive the Old Hilltop Award, joining my friend and colleague Joe Clancy and so many others on the list of recipients,” Law said. “So many people have helped my career through the years, from writers and editors at The Saratogian, Thoroughbred Times and now with ST Publishing and Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, and I can't thank them enough. A special thanks to all the horsemen and horses I've had the pleasure to write about and interact with through the years. They are, and always will be, the true stars of the show and it never gets old seeing the best of the best.”
Tradition holds that the Alibi Breakfast's humble beginnings go back to a few trainers sipping coffee on the porch of Pimlico's old clubhouse in the late 1930s, extolling the virtues of their horses and offering up excuses–or alibis–should their horse not win.
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