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 [...]
“Norman” might have been Lexington’s earliest winter casualty.
During the city’s first significant snowstorm a couple of weeks ago, a car jumped the curb in front of 203 South Limestone Street “and just hit him and killed him stone dead,” said Liza Hendley Betz. “Everybody was just heart-broken.”
You see, Norman is the 3-foot tall wooden leprechaun [...]
Alltech is doing a good deed in China that ought to be recognized.
The international animal feed company based in Nicholasville is sponsoring part of the reconstruction of an elementary school that was destroyed by an earthquake on May 12.
The Xiang-E Elementary collapsed, killing more than 370 teachers and students.
Alltech is joining with the Kentucky Chinese [...]
“Iraq is open for business,” says Maurey Bond.
He should know. He’s been working in Baghdad since February.
The 31-year-old Lexington native and University of Kentucky graduate is general manager of the Iraqi Airways International Business Center near the Baghdad International Airport.
The center is in an economic zone that also has a convention center, a 100-room hotel, [...]
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, [...]
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Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, known for singing “God Bless America” at Yankee Stadium, thrilled guests at Ashford Stud outside Versailles during a party Saturday.
The Ryder Cup-related visit of Irish tourism minister Martin Cullen prompted the festivities, reports Herald-Leader Editor Linda Austin.
More than 100 guests dined under the stars at the Coolmore-owned horse farm on Irish [...]
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 [...]
It’s a tradition at the U.S. Embassy in Paris to hold a huge garden party on July 4th to celebrate our independence and the French role in defeating the British.
About 2,400 people attended this year and many of them may have noticed that the party had a distinctly Bluegrass flavor.
The explanation begins last spring when [...]
The Chinese have nearly cornered the wire coat-hanger market in the United States.
So what? you say.
You’ll know “what” when your dry-cleaning bill soars a whopping 2 percent.
Cheap Chinese coat-hangers have swamped the U.S. market over the last five years and now only one U.S. coat-hanger maker remains, says Dry Cleaning and Laundry Institute CEO Bill [...]
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