Alltech is having so much fun as the first-ever title sponsor of the World Equestrian Games that the Nicholasville biotech company is doing it again — in Europe.
The international group that oversees equestrian sports, the Fédération Equestre Internationale, even combined a couple of championships to create the first-ever Alltech FEI European Jumping & Dressage Championships [...]
LeRoy Neiman couldn’t attend Tuesday’s unveiling of his official painting for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games so he sent his “electrons,” as one speaker put it.
He sent a short video message that began: “I’m LeRoy Neiman and I’m a New York painter.”
That’s like saying “I’m Barack Obama and I’m an Illinois politician.”
At 87, Neiman [...]
BusinessWeek says Lexington has the 13th most recession-resistant economy in the nation.
Here’s why: “Lexington, home to dozens of major companies, the University of Kentucky, and horse farms, is a diverse economy with a mix of agriculture, government, health care, and education,” says BusinessWeek.
One potential weak spot is manufacturing, which employs 12 percent of Lexington’s workforce [...]
The economy rained on Keeneland’s parade during the recent fall meet.
Betting, both on-track and via simulcasting, was down substantially, although attendance was strong.
Overall, 239,117 fans turned out from Oct. 3-25, only 179 short of last year’s record.
“If it hadn’t rained on Friday (the next to last day of the meet), we would have broken our [...]
You’ve heard of “Joe the Plumber.”
Now there’s “Joe the Horse.”
He’s otherwise known as Alysheba or simply “America’s horse” — the world’s third richest Thoroughbred, with purse earnings of $6,679,242.
On Thursday, it was announced that the Kentucky Derby winner, who has spent the last eight years in the royal stables of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, [...]
It’s 2009 and you’re in a country halfway around the world.
You want an update on the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games so you get your laptop, go to the Website of the 2010 Radio Show and listen to “the unofficial podcast” about the Games.
The show, which originates in Lexington, is a collection of news reports [...]
If you can’t wait for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games to begin in two years, the organizers at the World Games 2010 Foundation have a couple of free toys for you.
You can now download a dozen different desktop wallpapers featuring Games’ events at www.feigames2010.org/wallpapers.
There’s also a free digital clock that counts down to the [...]
You know how it goes. You’re on a business trip. Your laundry starts piling up. You stuff it in one of those hotel laundry bags and drop it in the hall outside your room. A day or two later, your clothing comes back cleaned and pressed.
The one thing you usually don’t do is to check [...]
Lexington might as well declare the Keeneland Race Course to be a separate city.
East Coast sportswriters do it whenever an important horse, like Big Brown, comes out of a Keeneland thoroughbred auction.
Newhouse News Service, for example, says one of Big Brown’s owners, Paul Pompa Jr., spotted the colt “at a Keeneland, Ky., auction last spring [...]
Lexington might as well declare the Keeneland Race Course to be a separate city.
East Coast sportswriters do it whenever an important horse, like Big Brown, comes out of a Keeneland thoroughbred auction.
Newhouse News Service, for example, says one of Big Brown’s owners, Paul Pompa Jr., spotted the colt “at a Keeneland, Ky., auction last spring [...]
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