The 2007 Eclipse Awards were handed out last week; so were the Media Eclipse Awards, and the “Audio and Multi-Media Internet” honors went to heraldleaderphoto.com for their Kentucky Derby coverage  http://www.heraldleaderpho07. to.com/derby/2007. This is the website belonging to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the second-largest newspaper in Kentucky. The New York Times website at nytimes.com received an honorable mention for their coverage of the 133rd Run for the Roses.

The strength of these websites is their depth of coverage compared to other media. There are only so many pages in a newspaper or minutes in a television program, while a website can hold vast stores of information at relatively little cost. “We covered the small-time trainers right to the Queen of England,” producer David Stephenson told NTRA.com about the heraldleaderphoto.com Derby site.

Top horseplayers couldn’t be happier. The more that media coverage saturates thoroughbred racing, the more money there is to be made by those who pay proper attention.