Tony Ryan Book Award

Award-winning author and attorney Milton Toby passed away Monday at his Georgetown, Kentucky home following a battle with cancer. He was 73. News of Toby's passing was first reported by Blood-Horse, where he worked for over a decade before beginning a freelance writing career. Toby began his sports writing career at the Aiken Standard and his first assignment for the South Carolina newspaper involved covering the 1972 GI Belmont S. He returned to Kentucky in 1973 and began a 12-year stint writing for the BloodHorse magazine. As a freelance photojournalist,...