KY Horse Park Museum Plans for Expansion
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The Lexington Herald-Leader broke a story about the KY Horse Park
recently has plans for a large museum expansion to begin in April
2008. This is the first substantial addition to the facility since it
debuted in 1978. The plan calls for increasing the size of the
building by 8000 sq.ft. which would be an increase to the total square
footage of the museum of approximately 30%.
This addition is being funded by the Arabian horse enthusiast organizations, which are specifically the Purebred Arabian Horse Trust & the American Arabian Horse Community.
In addition to the funding for the expansion, the displays within the newly constructed areas will include many pieces from those 2 organizations collections in order to better showcase the items. It also…
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The Lexington KY Herald Leader newspaper, announced that the 2010
Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) has now opened up a
registration list for all persons that may wish to volunteer to assist
with hosting the WEG at the KY Horse Park in Lexington. To sign up,
click here.
the Dale
Hollow Lake State Resort Park which is located in Senate President
David Williams district. Williams has voiced disagreement with the
allocation stating that when the General Assembly in Kentucky approved
$60 million for KY state park improvements in 2006 under Governor
Fletcher’s administration, that it did…
The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games has selected the official
shipping agent for the event: Peden Bloodstock. This company will be
responsible for the shipping & caring of the approximately 800
horses that are expected to be in attendance for the event. They will
also be responsible for the attendants, equipment, and carriages to the
Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington KY. Obviously, since they will be
bringing in horses from all over the world to Kentucky, they will have
to manage and deal with the various quarantine and biosecurity aspects
necessary for any importation of livestock into the United States.
Short’s Sports & Events (a subsidiary division of Short’s Travel
Management) has selected Event Home Leasing as their private property
rental company firm for the World Equestrian Games.
A lot of persons that aren’t planning on participating in the 2010
World Equestrian Games that will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in
Lexington Kentucky, are planning on cashing in on some of the estimated
300,000 attendees to the event.
Lexington Kentucky is readying for the 2010 FEI World Equestrian
Games by beginning work on many city projects that will help establish
the city as a world leader. $2.55 million was recently donated by the
John S. & James L. Knight Foundation to help jump start those
efforts. For reference, the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
is named after the 2 brothers that purchased the Lexington Herald and
Leader in 1973.
Its official (just had to throw that pun in there): Rolex is now a
sponsor of the FEI World Equestrian Games to be held in Lexington
Kentucky in 2010.
The results of the initial offering of reservations for tickets to
the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington Kentucky are now in -
approximately 67,000 tickets have been reserved giving approximately
$3.2 million on its initial round of ticket sales. Quite decent given
that the event is some 3 years away.
The first phase of ticket sales for the 2010 FEI World Equestrian
Games to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington Kentucky ended
on November 15 2007.