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October 26, 2005
The 31st Annual Sovereign Awards will be held at the Wyndham Bristol
Place Hotel Toronto on Friday, December 16, 2005.
Commencing this year, ballots and voters packages will no longer be
distributed by courier. All voters must cast their ballots online. Eligible
voters may begin voting online at 9:00 am on Wednesday, November 30th
and must cast their final ballots by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, December
5th, 2005.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Chartered Accountants will continue to audit
the process and will release the names of the three finalists in the
fifteen divisional categories to The Jockey Club of Canada for release
to the public on Thursday, December 8th, 2005. The three
finalists for Horse of the Year will not be announced until the night
of the awards presentation.
Owners and trainers should note that in order to be eligible for Sovereign
Awards consideration, horses must make a minimum of three starts in
Canada prior to Sunday, November 27th, 2005.
Submissions to the four media categories must be received in the office
of The Jockey Club of Canada, no later than 5:00 p.m. (EDT) on Monday,
October 31st. Submissions must be of Canadian Thoroughbred racing
or breeding content and must have been published/aired between November
1, 2004 and October 31, 2005. Contestants in the media categories
are limited to one submission per category. In the event that
more than one submission is received in any category, the author, photographer
or producer/director will be asked to decide which submission should
be entered. All submissions must be original works that have not previously
been submitted to the Sovereign Awards for consideration.
Photographers submitting a photograph should supply ten (10) copies,
8”x 10” in size, along with the name of the publication,
and the date that the photograph appeared. Please do not write on the
back of the photographs.
Submissions can be made to the Film/Video/Broadcastcategory
by providing a copy of a film/video in Beta/Beta SP or VHS Format.
Submissions to the Broadcast category should be made by providing a
copy of a broadcast on a cassette tape or a compact disc. A letter
should accompany the submission detailing the names of the parties
involved, the date the production aired as well as the name of the
television or radio station the submission first aired on.
Submissions to the Newspaper Articleand Feature Storycategories
should be made by providing a copy of the article/story on a 3½” floppy
disk by mail, or by e-mail to jockeyclub@bellnet.ca. All
submissions must be accompanied by a cut of the article/story indicating
the name of the publication and the date the article appeared in print
Judges will be sent the media submissions on Thursday, November 3rd
and will return their completed ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers by
Thursday, November 10th by 5:00 p.m. (EDT). The three
finalists in each of the four media categories will be announced on
Tuesday, November 15th.
John Cooney
Communications Supervisor
The Jockey Club
(859) 224-2714
For further information please
contact:
Bridget Bimm
The Jockey Club of Canada
Telephone: (416) 675-7756
Fax: (416) 675-6378
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