NEW YORK -- Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form and Mary Simon of Thoroughbred Times are Eclipse Award winners for turf writing in 2000, while ABC Sports won both national television categories.

Hovdey won in news-commentary for "Racing Loses a Man of Taste," about Eddie Gregson, a trainer who committed suicide.

Simon was recognized in features-enterprise for "Racing Through the Century," which appeared over several months.

ABC Sports won in live racing programming for its coverage of the Kentucky Derby, produced by Curt Gowdy Jr., and in features for a piece on jockey Marlon St. Julien, produced by Paul Hutchinson.

Other winners, announced Wednesday, were: photography, Dave Landry's photo of Strike Smartly in the Queen's Plate souvenir issue of the Canadian Thoroughbred; local television, WMAR, a Baltimore area ABC affiliate, for "The Preakness: An American Classic," produced by the Maryland Jockey Club; and radio, Premier Radio's coverage of the Breeders' Cup, produced by Shelby Whitfield.