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2010 AHP Annual Awards Contest (for material published in and dated 2009) American Horse Publications Awards Excellence in 2010 Annual Awards Competition Congratulations to all this year's winners! DOWNLOAD THE AWARDS POWERPOINT PRESENTATION DOWNLOAD THE AWARDS PROGRAM What better location than Lexington, Kentucky, to hold American Horse Publications 40th Anniversary Seminar. The three-day conference drew record numbers, but on Saturday evening, the topic uppermost in AHP members’ minds was the awards winners in the AHP Annual Awards Competition. The awards contest starts in January when members start gathering their best work from the previous year to submit to the contest. By March, the entries are in, the judges selected, and the judging started. In April, the results are in and the production of the program, plaques, certificates and PowerPoint presentation gets underway. By May, the finalists are announced. The contest culminates in June when the wait is over and the winners are announced at the annual seminar. Sixty-three American Horse Publications members were named finalists in the 2010 AHP Annual Awards Contest for material published in and dated 2009. Participation in this year’s contest represented 97 AHP members and 782 entries. Held since 1974, the AHP Annual Awards Contest provides members with an opportunity to be recognized for excellence in equine publishing as well as professional critiques for improvement. Always an anticipated event, the awards presentations were held Saturday, June 19, 2010, during the AHP 40th Anniversary Seminar in Lexington, Kentucky. The evening began with a reception co-sponsored by Dover Saddlery and American Horse Publications and was followed by the Awards Banquet co-sponsored by Branch Smith Printing and American Horse Publications. Breyer Animal Creations sponsored the Official 2010 World Equestrian Games Model, Esprit, as centerpieces, and one lucky attendee at each table took a model horse home. The coveted General Excellence Award is presented to publications who fulfill their statement of purpose and show excellence in editorial content and design. Honorable mention is presented in classes with over five entries. General Excellence in the Tabloid/Newspaper category went to The Steeplechase Times, a twice monthly newspaper published by Joe and Sean Clancy. The Equestrian News, a bimonthly newspaper for Southern California equestrians, claimed honorable mention for publisher, Nancy Cole. Winning General Excellence Association Magazine circulation under 15,000 for the second consecutive year was Trot Magazine, a national harness racing magazine published by Standardbred Canada. Professional Farrier, the official publication of the American Farrier's Association, captured honorable mention. The General Excellence Association Magazine circulation 15,000 and over class winner was Living Cowboy Ethics, renamed The Cowboy Way, published by the Paragon Foundation. This was a second win for the quarterly publication celebrating the west. Honorable mention was awarded to USDF Connection, a national monthly dressage magazine for United States Dressage Federation members. In the category for General Excellence State or Regional Publication, any format, the top honors went to multiple-time winner, The Florida Horse, a monthly state horse magazine published by Florida Equine Publications. Honorable mention was awarded to The Northwest Horse Source, a monthly regional magazine published by Karen Pickering. Topping the competition in General Excellence Self-Supported Magazine with circulation under 15,000 was The Chronicle of the Horse, a national/international sporthorse weekly published by Vistan Corporation. Honorable mention went to the only European publication in the competition, Western Horse UK, the UK's American horse magazine published by Tally Wade. Trail Blazer, a recreation and competition trail riding magazine published by Susan Gibson, won the General Excellence for Self-Supported Magazine with circulation 15,000 and over category. Honorable mention was equally earned by The Horse: Your Guide to Equine Health Care, a monthly all-breed equine health magazine published by Blood-Horse Publications; Western Horseman Magazine, a national monthly all-breed magazine that will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2011, publisher Darrell Dodds; and Western Shooting Horse Magazine, the bimonthly mounted shooting magazine published by Ken Amorosano. All winners in the General Excellence classes were eligible for the General Excellence Overall Publication award and were judged by a separate judge. The 2010 prestigious award was presented to Living Cowboy Ethics, renamed The Cowboy Way. Member print publications achieving multiple honors in a variety of categories included Western Horseman with 12 awards; The Chronicle of the Horse with 11 awards; Trot Magazine, and Paint Horse Journal with 10 awards each; NRHA Reiner and The American Quarter Horse Journal/The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal with 8 awards each; The Florida Horse with 7 awards; EQUUS, Hoof Beats Magazine, Quarter Horse News, The Cowboy Way/Living Cowboy Ethics, and Western Horse UK with 5 awards each; America’s Horse, Horse & Rider, and The Blood-Horse with 4 awards each. Corporate members who placed high in this year’s competition included Pfizer Animal Health placing first and third in the Corporate/Individual Advertisement (Print) class and first and second in Online Equine-related Advertisement (Print) class. Purina Mills – Land O’ Lakes Purina Feeds placed second in Corporate/Individual Advertisement with an ad created by Left Field Creative. In the Equine-related Book (Text) class, Storey Publishing took home the top honors earning first for “Horse Crazy” by Jessie Haas and placing second with “Equine Fitness” by Jec Aristotle Ballou. Eclipse Press placed first in Equine-related Book (Pictorial) class for “Horses in Living Color” written and photographed by Barbara D. Livingston. Several Individual members, who include freelance writers, photographers and designers, entered their own work published in member print publications or web sites. Ryan Bell wrote award-winning articles for Western Horseman earning him a third place for “Up Snake River” in Service to the Reader circulation 20,000 and over and two honorable mentions in Feature Article circulation over 20,000 for “Catch the Train to Elko” and “La Pialada.” Danvers Child won first place in Instructional Single Article circulation under 10,000 for “Gettin’ Testy: A Hoof Tester Primer” published in Professional Farrier. Tracy Gantz earned second place in Equine-related Book (Pictorial) class for her literary talents in the book, “75th Anniversary Santa Anita Park 1934-2009.” Lisa Kemp earned multiple honors for work published in several members including an honorable mention in Service to the Reader circulation under 20,000 for “But I Paid the Photographer! What Do You Mean I Don’t Own the Photo?” published in From the Horse’s Mouth; a third for “To Air is Divine – Lippizzans and the Airs Above the Ground” in Feature Article circulation 10,000 to 20,000 published in Equine Journal, and a second in Online News Reporting: News Breaking Story for “Chicago Carriage Horse Care Series” published on TheHorse.com. Photographer Dusty Perin placed third for her photograph, “Working into the Night” published on the November cover of American Farriers Journal. Kara Stewart received honorable mention in Service to the Reader circulation 20,000 and over for “From Day Job to Horse Job” published in Horse Illustrated. Denise Steffanus earned top honors in Service to the Reader Series for her series published in Thoroughbred Times on foaling. Other Individual members whose work were entered by an AHP member publication or website and placed included Kristie Badger, Jeannie Blancq Putney, April Raine, Irene Stamatelakys, and Rachelle Wilhelm. The Electronic Media division recognizes the variety of digital media published online by members in 2009 on AHP Web Site Member sites. Equine-related Web Site members that received awards included America’s Horse Daily that placed second in Online Equine-related Newsletter. Blood-Horse.com received a second place in Online Equine-related Video. Chronofhorse.com achieved multiple honors with a first is Online News Reporting: News Breaking Story, a second in Equine-related Web Site, and third in Online Equine-related Blog. EquiSearch.com earned three firsts including Online News Reporting: Related Feature Story, Online Service to the Reader Article, and Equine-related Web Site. QuarterHorseNews.com won the Online Equine-related Newsletter class. TheHorse.com earned two seconds including Online News Reporting: Related Feature Story and Online Equine-related Blog. USHJA.org received top honors in the Online Equine-related Blog class and ustrotting.com placed first and third in the Online Equine-related Video class. The Merial Human-Animal Bond Award was presented for the ninth year to the article that best reflected and promoted the strengthening of the relationship between horses and people. AHP members were allowed to submit only one entry in this class and this year’s field of entries totaled 17. The winner of the Merial Human-Animal Bond Award is the author of the article and received a special engraved trophy presented by Merial. The member publication, in which the article was published, received an engraved plaque. The winner was Catherine Madera, for her article, “A Hero’s Work” which was published in The Northwest Horse Source. The AHP Annual Awards Contest provides members with an opportunity to be recognized for excellence in equine publishing, print and electronic, as well as professional critiques for improvement. AHP Executive Director, Chris Brune, performed the duties of processing the entries with assistance from Judy Lincoln. Webmaster, Christy West, produced the PowerPoint awards presentation. Kim Kulers at 360° Marketing Solutions, designed the awards program. Daniel K. Lew is the official photographer and Barrie Reightler of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred designed the 40th anniversary logos. The Executive Director acquired this year’s slate of 23 professionals judges. The judges are rotated every year and given classes to judge in which they have professional expertise. While several judges have participated in the contest judging for a number of years; others are new to the project. They all truly loved the opportunity and look forward to the receiving entries. And if you think the job is easy, here is one judge’s comment: “Please tell all those who entered how difficult it was to select the best. I wish I'd have had a lot of first places to give to a lot more than I did.” And another judge, wrote, “Great entries this year. It was hard to narrow down the winners.” The Awards Committee reviews the contest rules and procedures annually for improvement, clarity, fairness, and variety. Rules for the 2011 Annual Awards Contest for material published in and dated 2010 will be available to members in early January.
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