Beverley Smith has covered horse racing, both thoroughbreds and standardbreds, for more than 25 years for the Globe and Mail. Ms. Smith has twice won a Sovereign Award for horse racing articles and was a finalist for a National Newspaper Award. She is an author of four books on figure skating and covered the Olympic Games in Australia, Greece, Italy, the United States and Canada for the Globe and Mail. She lives in Mississauga, ON.