Law will be presented with the Old Hilltop Award May 15 at the Alibi Breakfast at Pimlico Race Course, two days before the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes.

Tradition holds that the Alibi Breakfast’s humble beginnings go back to a few trainers sipping coffee on the porch of Pimlico’s old clubhouse in the late 1930s, extolling the virtues of their horses and offering up excuses – or alibis – should their horse not win.

Law, a native and current resident of Saratoga Springs, NY, also serves as a contributing writer for Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred and editor of The Horsemen’s Journal. He began covering Thoroughbred racing at The Saratogian in 1994. Law served as president of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters for six two-year terms, his most recent one ending last year. He has also earned the Red Smith Kentucky Derby Writing Award, the David F. Woods Memorial Preakness Writing Award, and the Joe Hirsch Memorial Belmont Stakes Writing Award twice.

“It’s an incredible honor to receive the Old Hilltop Award, joining my friend and colleague Joe Clancy and so many others on the list of recipients,” Law said. “So many people have helped my career through the years, from writers and editors at The Saratogian, Thoroughbred Times and now with ST Publishing and Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, and I can’t thank them enough.

"A special thanks to all the horsemen and horses I’ve had the pleasure to write about and interact with through the years. They are, and always will be, the true stars of the show and it never gets old seeing the best of the best.”

According to Pimlico, for additional information and tickets go to: https://www.preakness.com/alibibreakfast.

Edited Pimlico release with additional content by Dick Downey