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Back To Last Call OnlineJanuary 13, 2010
It’s been a great week for The Canadian Sportsman. Apart from beginning its 140th year of publication, the magazine is proud to announce its writers and photographers have received a number of awards and honours for work in 2009.
Photographer Claus Andersen is the winner of not one, but two U.S. Harness Writers’ (USHWA) George Smallsreed Awards for both the best race photo and the best feature photo published in 2009.
Andersen won the best race photo contest with his shot of Jody Jamieson and John Campbell battling in Delaware, OH (above) that was published in the April 16, 2009 edition. That same photograph is also a finalist for Standardbred Canada’s inaugural photography award.
Andersen also won the Smallsreed feature photo category for his shot of racing action seen through the trees at The Meadows published in a photo feature in our Aug. 20 edition.
Sportsman columnist Karen Briggs has been awarded Equine Canada’s Susan Jane Anstey Media Award for her feature on Equi-Challenge, “Jamieson Jumps for Charity” which appeared in our Sept. 10, 2009 issue. Her award will be presented at Equine Canada’s national awards banquet in Montreal.
Meanwhile, Sportsman editor Dave Briggs won the 2009 USHWA John Hervey Award for feature writing for his story on Canadian trainer Greg Peck winning the Hambletonian with Muscle Hill entitled “From the Mines to the Hill Top” published in the Aug. 20, 2009 edition. It is the fourth Hervey Award for Briggs, who also won in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
The Sportsman’s exclusive blogger, Alan Kirschenbaum, received honourable mention in the Hervey news / opinion writing category for his blog “The Cold Slap: We have never been more irrelevant” posted on Sept. 1, 2009.
Stanley Gutkowski also received honourable mention in the Hervey news / opinion division for his piece, “Pilfering the Pot in Pennsylvania” which appeared in the Aug. 20, 2009 issue.
Evan Pattak won the news / opinion Hervey for his Hoof Beats story about the use of the whip in racing entitled “Cracking the Whip.”
Finally, Sportsman assistant editor Lauren Lee is a finalist for Standardbred Canada’s media excellence awards for best written work for her piece about her father’s last trip to the North America Cup. Andrew Cohen is the other finalist for a piece that appeared in Trot Magazine.
Standardbred Canada’s awards winners will be announced Jan. 30 at the O’Brien Awards.
Dave Briggs and Andersen will receive their Hervey / Smallsreed Awards at USHWA’s Night of Champions banquet Feb. 28 at Yonkers Raceway.
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