Archive for the 'Horses' Category

World Games chief gets taken to the cleaners

Friday, September 12th, 2008

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 [...]

Keeneland, Ky.: The world’s real horse capital

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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 [...]

Keeneland, Ky.: The world’s real horse capital

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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 is No. 1 in horse friendliness

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Hey, Ocala, how do you like these apples?
Western Horseman magazine ranks Lexington as the No. 1 most Historically Horse-Friendly city in the country.
It begins the article in its April issue by saying Lexington is “widely recognized as the Horse Capital of the World.”
So much for your claim to that title, Ocala.
The magazine, which says it [...]