About the Author

Jim Mulvihill has contributed to numerous Thoroughbred racing publications, including Thoroughbred Times, The Texas Thoroughbred, and The Saratoga Special. He has served as a public handicapper in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for the past three North Texas thoroughbred seasons, dating to the 2004 Breeders' Cup Meeting. As Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie's staff writer and media relations associate from 2002 to 2005, he penned the daily press notes and, in the Breeders' Cup year of 2004, produced the Inside Lone Star Park radio show on 103.3 FM ESPN Radio. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Race Track Industry Program and Emerson College. He became an avid fan of Thoroughbred racing upon cashing his first Fair Grounds winner in his native New Orleans at age 15.

As a freelance journalist, Jim has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines, from the Houston Chronicle to the Fort Worth Weekly to the Williams College Alumni Review. He was a featured weekly columnist in the North Adams Transcript in 2005 and 2006, while also contributing news and sports to the Western Massachusetts daily.

Nowadays Jim is the communications and marketing associate at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.