1970-1971: Arnold Kirkpatrick (The Thoroughbred Record)

1971-1972: Stan Bergstein (Hoof Beats)

1972-1973: Bob Gray (Horseman)

1973-1974: Snowden Carter (The Maryland Horse)

1974-1976: Tony Chamblin (The Horsemen's Journal)

1976-1977: Audie Rackley (The Quarter Horse Journal)

1977-1978: Walt Wiggins (Quarter Racing World)

1978-1979: Erbert Eades (The Blood-Horse)

1979-1980: Don Price (Michigan Harness Horse)

1980-1981: Mike Kalil (Harness Horsemen International)

1981-1982: Dan Farley (The Thoroughbred Record)

1982-1984: Ruth Brown (Eastern/Western Quarter Horse Journal)

1984-1985: David Dolezal (Hub Rail and The Harness Horse)

1985-1986: Les Ford (The Harness Horse)

1986-1987: Thom Mezick (Dressage & CT)

1987-1988: Peter Winants (The Chronicle of the Horse)

1988-1989: Tracy Gantz (The Thoroughbred of California)

1989-1990: Christine Brune (Eastern/Western Quarter Horse Journal)

1990-1991: Bill Shepard (Paint Horse Journal)

1991-1992: Nancy Lee Comer (The Chronicle of the Horse)

1992-1993: Karl R. Little (Cutting Horse Chatter)

1993-1994: Jenny Meyer (California Horse Review)

1994-1995: Kathy Mezick (Horsemen's Corral)

1995-1996: Jim Jennings (The Quarter Horse Journal/The Quarter Racing Journal)

1996-1997: Susan Harding (EQUUS)

1997-1998: Darrell Dodds (Paint Horse Journal)

1998-1999: Lua Oas Southard (Equine Resources International)

1999-2000: Robert Banner (The Chronicle of the Horse)

2000-2001: Warren Wilson (California Horsetrader)

2001-2002: Barrie Reightler (Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred)

2002-2003: Frank Lessiter (American Farriers Journal)

2003-2004: Doug Hayes (The American Quarter Horse Journal/The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal)

2004-2005: Deborah Taylor Tatum (UK Gluck Equine Research & Service Report)

2006-2007: Connie Lechleitner, (Ohio Quarter Horse News)