February 18, 2005

MARV BACHRAD WINS DAN PATCH AWARD

Marv Bachrad, who for the better part of four decades has been synonymous with the best in harness racing publicity, first at Brandywine Raceway and Garden State Park and for the last nine years at Dover Downs, has won Harness Tracks of America’s Dan Patch Award for exceptional media, publicity and public relations contributions to the sport.

A former sportswriter and sportscaster known throughout the Philadelphia and Delaware Valley area, Bachrad currently hosts a daily harness racing news program telecast to up to 500 off-track and simulcasting facilities in the United States and Canada. A member of the Communicators’ Corner of the Hall of Fame in Goshen and the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, he also is a past winner of the harness writer’s coveted Proximity Award, the Publicists’ Golden Pen Award, the United States Trotting Association’s John Hervey award for writing, and the Harness Horse Youth Foundation’s Service to Youth Award. He is a past president of both the U.S. Harness Writers and North American Harness Publicists’ Associations.

Bachrad will receive his Dan Patch award at HTA’s annual Nova Awards Dinner at Hyatt Grand Champions in Indian Wells, California, Friday night, March 11.