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 is Kentucky Downs’ publicity director, manages in-season racing publicity for Ellis Park and 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.
From Oaklawn Park’s media department (Coady Photography photos of Whitmore taking last month’s Hot Springs Stakes and the 2018 Count Fleet) HOT SPRINGS,
Kentucky-based horsemen and horses dominate today’s Oaklawn Park media notes: (Coady Photography photo of Wells Bayou winning an Oaklawn allowance race on Jan.
Churchill Downs press release (A set of Eddie Kenneally-trained horses wait to go on the track last fall. Jennie Rees photo): LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Tuesday, April