alicia wincze hughes

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) has announced that it has hired Alicia Wincze-Hughes as Director of NTRA Communications. A winner of numerous national writing awards for her coverage of Thoroughbred racing, Hughes has spent the last two years as a staff writer and racing editor at BloodHorse. Alicia will join us to discuss the transition to the new position and her role in the NTRA’s promotion of thoroughbred racing in the U.S. All eyes will be on Tampa Bay Downs this Saturday as the quaint track will feature 3 graded stakes races. Carrying points for the Kentucky Derby is the Grade 3 $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes. The solid undercard on the day is the Grade 3 $175,000 Lambholm Southern Endeavor Stakes; Grade 3 $175,000 Tampa Bay Stakes and the $150,000 Suncoast Stakes. Andrew Demsky, the track's Paddock Preview Host, videographer and handicapping expert, will be among a group of featured speakers. Andrew joins John for analysis of these diverse stakes.

Alicia Wincze-Hughes recently coordinated the Annual NTWAB Awards Banquet and subsequently covered the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita. Upon returning to Lexington, Kentucky, Alicia joined her Blood-Horse team in full coverage of this week's Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland Mixed Sales. She will be sharing her story of her entrance to the racing world and her last 2 weeks. Alicia is an award-winning writer who recently joined the Blood-Horse as their Racing Editor. Jay Privman is uniquely qualified to write about the Breeders' Cup since he has seen every one, beginning with the inaugural at Hollywood Park in 1984. At that time, Privman had already won the Red Smith Kentucky Derby Writing Contest an amazing 5 times. A former President of the NTWAB Jay did another outstanding job hosting the Breeders' Cup for NBC. We will tap into his long standing experience and discuss this year's Distaff and Classic and where they stand with BC races he has witnessed since 1984.