Daily News sports writer Dick Jerardi has won his fourth Red Smith Kentucky Derby Writing Contest award.

Jerardi, who has covered horse racing for the Daily News for 20 years, won in the Advance division for the first time for a story that appeared May 7 headlined “Another Philadelphia story at Derby,” focusing on the owners of Afleet Alex. He previously won in the Monday Wrap-up division in 1987, 1991 and 1997.

He is the second Daily News writer to win the award four times. Stan Hochman won the feature title in 1984, and Monday Wrap-up honors in 1985, 1986 and 1988.

Other winners were Greg Hall, of the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., in the Feature division; Courier-Journal colleague Jennie Rees in Sunday Wrap-up; and Steve Haskin, of the Blood-Horse, a trade magazine, in the Monday Wrap-up category.

Winners receive an engraved silver equine-themed serving tray at the annual National Turf Writers Association Awards Dinner tonight in Mineola, N.Y.