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.
A Kentucky Public Protection/Kentucky Horse Racing Commission release/Photo above: Darley’s Pretty Mischievous, based in Kentucky with trainer Brendan Walsh, won the Kentucky Oaks
Churchill Downs’ weekly Kentucky Derby update by the track’s publicity department (Hodges photo of Track Phantom winning the Lecomte) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Thursday, Feb.