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.
(Photo at top: Knicks Go winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic under Joel Rosario. Scott Serio for Breeders’ Cup/Eclipse Sportswire) Headed by Churchill Downs-based
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A Backside Learning Center release (above: an invitation to last spring’s fundraiser for the Backside Learning Center.) LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
Churchill Downs press release (Coady Photography photo of Lucky Seven Stable’s Smile Happy winning G2 Kentucky Jockey Club under Brian Hernandez): ALL OTHER
Today’s Oaklawn Park barn notes by Robert Yates (photo above: Dash Attack taking Oaklawn’s Smarty Jones for trainer Kenny McPeek. Coady Photography): Large Field