About Me
EDDIE DONNALLY HAS LIVED A MOST UNUSUAL LIFE
In 1984, while writing for the Dallas Morning News, he became the only former jockey to win an Eclipse Award for Newspaper Writing. He has been a horse racing television show producer and host, professional fund raiser for Racetrack Chaplaincy of America, ordained minister with a Doctor of Ministry degree, and is a professional hospital and hospice chaplain.
A jockey for 19 years, he rode in over 10,000 races at 54 tracks, winning an estimated 1,200. He was once indicted for sports bribery after a botched race fixed by Boston’s infamous Winter Hill Gang. Its leader Whitey Bulger was convicted of killing 11 persons. He lived for a time between the FBI who wanted him to testify against gang members and the gang who threatened to kill him.
On December 16, 1996, a Los Angeles area holding cell filled with what he is convinced was God’s Shekinah Glory, causing him and 11 other prisoners to ask Christ to take over their lives. He left jail to begin his ministry career at the Los Angeles Dream Center, where he met and married his wife, Sandi Steele, and in less than five years was licensed as a Foursquare Gospel minister. In late 2014 he and four other former jockeys founded a group named Jockeys and Jeans, which has to date raised over $3.85 million for their severely injured brothers and sisters.
While a jockey, he published over 100 articles in a score of newspapers and magazines, including the "Washington Post” and “New York Times," and their “Sunday Magazine.” His testimony has been published in magazines and books, including "Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul,” discussed on radio shows and featured on "The 700 Club.” He and his wife appeared on several Christian Television Network shows. Nearly 12,000 have watched his testimony on his YouTube Channel. He blogs and several are on this site.
His Bio, “Ride the White Horse: A Checkered Jockey’s Story of Racing, Rage and Redemption” has sold over 10,000 copies and gained 82 reviews on Amazon with 80% rated four or five. A sexually abused adolescent, he went back to college in his 60s to earn his Doctorate, chiefly to understand why following a divorce, he sank into illicit sexual relations, attempted suicide, was in two psych wards and became addicted to crack cocaine before redemption came inside a jail’s holding cell. He has taught his course, “Healing from Sexual Abuse” in churches, rehab centers and prisons. He has shared his testimony in at least 50 separate prisons in four states. He also speaks in churches, recovery conferences, and substance abuse rehabs such as Celebrate Recovery and Teen Challenge. He regularly preaches to the homeless at the New Orleans Mission.
His first novel, "Doctrines of Demons” has sold well, and he has shared his end time prophesy on a dozen media outlets and on his YouTube Channel. This time he is back in familiar territory with his horse racing-based novel, “The Golden Altar: Selling Souls
for a Horse with No Name.
