Tim Layden, Ed Schuyler, Jr., and the late Edwin Pope have been selected to the National Museum of Racing's Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor, the repository for racing's history said in a press release on Wednesday morning.
The honor roll was established in 2010 to recognize individuals whose careers have been dedicated to, or substantially involved in, writing about Thoroughbred racing (non-fiction), and who distinguished themselves as journalists.
Layden is a four-time Eclipse Award winner and the 2015 recipient of the Walter Haight Award for career excellence in turf writing from the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB). He won his first Eclipse in 1987 in the newspaper writing category and has since won Eclipses for feature/commentary in 2018, 2022, and 2023.
Schuyler covered primarily horse racing and boxing for The Associated Press from 1960 until his retirement in 2002. He was the NTWAB selection for the 1996 Walter Haight Award.
Pope (1928-2017) won three Eclipse Awards for newspaper writing (1976, 1982, 1986) during his journalism career–each of those awards was earned while covering racing for the Miami Herald, where he began working in 1956.
Recent selections to the Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor include: Walter Haight (2021), Jack Mann (2021), Jay Privman (2021), Heywood Hale Broun (2022), Bert Morgan (2022), Damon Runyon (2022), Dick Jerardi (2023), Paul Moran, and John L. Hervey.
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