Deadline: 19 July 2024
The Country Racing Victoria are calling for submissions for the SEN Jack Styring Media Award to recognises journalism that best captures the spirit of Victorian country racing during the past racing season.
They hope, in this small way, to encourage and further horse racing’s rich tradition of storytelling in Victoria. Judges will shortlist up to three entries, with shortlisted journalists invited to the Country Racing Victoria Awards Night on Saturday 24 August 2024, where the winner will be announced.
The Jack Styring Country Racing Victoria Media Award is named in honor of Country Racing legend Jack Styring and his services to Country Racing Victoria. A race caller and media identity, Styring is a huge supporter of country racing, and his voice was synonymous with many country racecourses for more than six decades.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entries may consist of a single piece of print, online, or broadcast journalism published between August 1 2023 and 31 July 2024.
- This award is open to working members of the media in Victoria. Country Racing Victoria, Racing Victoria and country racing club employees are ineligible to enter this award.
Conditions
- Entries may consist of a single piece of print, online or broadcast journalism, or a collection of up to three stories, on the subject of country Victorian thoroughbred racing.
- Entrants may enter as an individual or as part of a collaboration.
- Country Racing Victoria is under no obligation to invite all members of a shortlisted collaborative entry to the awards. This will be at Country Racing Victoria’s discretion.
- The judging panel has the right to reject, at their discretion, an entry which does not comply with these conditions.
- Country Racing Victoria reserves the right to use all materials submitted and to reproduce it for the purpose of promoting the Jack Styring Media Award for Services to Country Racing Victoria and associated Country Racing Victoria Awards Night.
- Country Racing Victoria reserves the right to withdraw an entry or relegate the eventual winner if it finds out at a later date the entrant did not comply with these conditions.
- The judging panel’s decision will be final and no correspondence entered into.
- Entries must be factually correct and the original work of the entrant.
For more information, visit Country Racing Victoria.
