Jennie Rees is a communications and advocacy specialist in the horse industry who spent 32 years covering horse racing for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal before taking a corporate buyout. In addition to handling communications for the Kentucky HBPA, Rees serves as a consultant to the National HBPA. Other projects include the Preakness Stakes, Indiana Grand’s Indiana Derby Week and work for various HBPA affiliates and horsemen’s associations.
Keeneland press release (Coady Media/Renee Torbit photo of #3 Burnham Square winning last year’s Blue Grass Stakes) Purses increased for three upgraded stakes
Turfway Park stakes recap by publicist Kevin Kerstein (Coady Media/Devin Hall photo of Street Beast winning the Leonatus under Luan Machado) FLORENCE, Ky.