The Nationwide Thoroughbred Racing Affiliation (NTRA), Every day Racing Kind, and the Nationwide Turf Writers And Broadcasters (NTWAB) introduced as we speak that Britney Eurton and Lindsay Czarniak will co-host the 54th Annual Eclipse Awards, which shall be held on Thursday, January 23, 2025 at The Breakers Palm Seaside. Caton Bredar shall be once more serving because the Ceremony Announcer.
“We’re thrilled to have Britney Eurton again to co-host her fifth consecutive Eclipse Awards and to be joined by first time host Lindsay Czarniak,” stated NTRA President and CEO Tom Rooney. “These two ladies are unimaginable ambassadors for our sport, and collectively their headlining the Eclipse Awards will deliver the 2024 champions into the households of everybody watching from residence and make for an excellent evening.”
The Eclipse Awards will honor the 2024 human and equine champions of Thoroughbred racing. Named after the nice 18th-century racehorse and basis sire Eclipse, the awards shall be introduced in 17 classes and shall be televised stay on FanDuel TV, Racetrack Tv Community (RTN), and streamed on a number of retailers.
Ticket gross sales for the black-tie Eclipse Awards will start on Monday, November 18, 2024. To remain updated on the 54th Annual Eclipse Awards and for extra data, go to https://www.ntra.com/eclipse-awards/.
Britney Eurton is a bunch and reporter for NBC, Amazon Prime, and different impartial networks. She started her broadcasting profession with FanDuel (previously TVG) in 2014, masking main horse racing occasions all over the world such because the Triple Crown, Breeders’ Cup, and Royal Ascot. She returns to the Eclipse Awards in 2025 having co-hosted the previous 5 years. In 2017, Eurton made her NBC Sports activities debut with the Breeders’ Cup Problem Collection and now serves as a bunch and reporter for his or her horse racing protection. Her function with NBC has additionally included reporting on numerous occasions, akin to tennis on the Paris 2024 Olympics, volleyball, and MLB along with internet hosting the 2024 Paris Paralympics. For Amazon Prime, Eurton at present covers the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League. Eurton is a board member for New Vocations, one of many largest Thoroughbred aftercare organizations within the nation. A graduate of the College of Southern California with a level in enterprise, she is the daughter of Peter Eurton, a former jockey and achieved Thoroughbred horse coach.
Lindsay Czarniak is an EMMY and Gracie award-winning broadcaster recognized for her work throughout the sports activities trade. This yr Czarniak served as host of NBC Common’s protection of the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games on USA Community. Her reporting and internet hosting roles have included the Right now Present third Hour, the Indy 500 Victory Celebration and the occasions surrounding the game’s largest race, in addition to host of the Nationwide Grocers Affiliation’s annual Finest Bagger Championship. Lindsay continues her work as a journalistic content material creator together with her partnership with America’s Finest Racing and their “Stake in Stardom” program.
In recent times, Czarniak has appeared in on-air internet hosting and sideline reporting roles for FOX NFL and NASCAR, CBS’s Celebrity Racing Expertise (SRX), and NBC Sports activities protection of the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2020 Summer season Olympics. She had additionally hosted superstar interview podcasts “The Artist and The Athlete” with Sony Music pairing prime sports activities and music stars with shocking connections and “Lunch with Lindsay” sitting with notable figures in sports activities and leisure for informal conversations. Beforehand Czarniak labored at ESPN from 2011 to 2017, anchoring SportsCenter and contributing to Sunday NFL Countdown as a reporter and host within the area. Throughout this time, she turned the primary girl to host the community’s protection of the Indianapolis 500 on ABC.
Czarniak started her profession as an on-air reporter on a number of stations in Atlanta, GA, Jacksonville, Florida, and Miami Florida. She additionally labored on the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. for the legendary George Michael as a sports activities reporter/anchor and fill in host of “the George Michael Sports activities Machine.” Czarniak grew up studying about horse racing from her father, Chet Czarniak, who started masking the game for USA Right now within the early 1980’s. She graduated from James Madison College in 2000 with a significant in journalism and a minor in studio artwork. She lives in Connecticut together with her husband Craig Melvin and two youngsters.
This press launch has not been edited by BloodHorse. If there are any questions please contact the group that produced the discharge.