Winning Ponies

Mr. Jerardi is a regular contributor to the Daily Racing Form, a Daily News Sports Columnist, and one of the country's last sports reporters to cover racing. Dick Jerardi has been at the Daily News since 1985 as their lead college basketball and horse racing writer. He writes two columns per week during basketball season, and has covered 14 Final Fours, every Triple Crown race since 1987 and every Breeders' Cup race since 1986. Mr. Jerardi has covered events as varied as the Summer Olympics, the NBA Finals, American League playoffs, NFL playoffs and the Rose Bowl. He writes columns, features, game stories and takeouts on topics ranging from how the football betting line is formed to a portrait of the jockey who rode Secretariat.