Proposed KY Horse Racing Track Update
Posted by Jennifer Karlen on
As I’m certain many of you are aware, there is a proposed KY horse
racing track to go in London Kentucky - filling the last license
available for horse racing in Kentucky. The original purpose and scope
for the new facility was to promote a quarter horse racetrack.
However, that proposal appears to be slowing down in its momentum. 3 of the application’s partners have withdrawn and now the last license may be up for grabs again. The 3 persons that withdrew from the process with the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority are as follows:
Randall Hubbard
Dr. Edward Allred
Paul Blanchard
And they were working together in an organization known as Sprint Racing Partners.
(To provide some background, those 3 individuals, and another person named Bruce Rimbo…
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The
Lexington KY newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader published a story
on February 21 2008 regarding more details for the proposed KY Horse
Park Hotel. The topic of the feature…
The Courier-Journal newspaper reported a story regarding the
Kentucky General Assembly, and the proposed Kentucky Horse Park Bond
Plan calling for $118 million.
The Shelbyville KY newspaper, The Sentinel-News reported in a story
that John Long has been selected as the chairman for the 2010 Alltech
FEI World Equestrian Games.
It was reported in The Courier-Journal newspaper, that the Kentucky
General Assembly is making efforts to ready the Kentucky Horse Park for
the 2010 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games, by making substantial road
improvements to accommodate the tremendous number of visitors expected
to attend the 16 day event.
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%.
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 Shelbyville KY newspaper, The Sentinel-News, wrote an article in
the Wednesday January 23 2008 edition about scholarship opportunities
being made available by Farm Credit Services of Mid-America. This
company is a $13 billion organization that does various farms programs
lending and serves Kentucky, as well as Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee.
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…
According to the Tuesday January 22 2008 edition of the
Lexington-Herald Leader newspaper, there is on the table a proposal for
creation of a Lexington KY land bank. First off: what is a land bank?