Paula Welch Prather began her career at the Phoenix office of the
Daily
Racing Form
. Starting as a copy editor in 1993, she became the Special
Projects Editor in 1996. She was instrumental in producing the “Graded
Stakes Yearbook” and “Champions.” Paula stayed behind in her home town of
Phoenix when the DRF moved to New York, but has served as editor of the
American Racing Manual since the 2004 edition.
Paula served as the US correspondent for the New Zealand Bloodhorse from
1999 through the cessation of the publication in 2008. From 2007 until the
report was discontinued after the 2014 edition, she worked with the ARCI to
produce their annual pari-mutuel statistics summary report. She has been
working with the Arizona Thoroughbred Breeders Association in 2002 and
manages their website.
Currently, Paula is employed outside of the racing industry as a principal
software support analyst for Thomson Reuters.
A December 1992 graduate of the Race Track Industry Program at the
University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, Paula also completed three years of
study in journalism at Arizona State University in Tempe.
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