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.
By Paul Halloran, for Parx Racing (Jaime Torres winning the Pennsylvania Derby aboard Preakness winner Seize the Grey by Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO) BENSALEM, Pa. –
Today’s Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion media notes, with Kentucky horses and horsemen prominent. Renee Torbit/Coady Media photo above of the Doug Cowans-trained Next
Thursday’s Parx Racing media notes (Sammantha Pagels/Coady Media photo of Dragoon Guard winning Indiana Derby) Cox bids for back-to-back wins with streaking Dragoon
Fun facts about Kentucky Downs’ meet, compiled by Dick Downey (photo above by Grace Clark-Sweet/Kentucky Downs) Kentucky Downs continued a trend of last-race
Rigney, Bauer reflect on Jonathan’s Way’s victory in Saturday’s Iroquois Churchill Downs press release by Kevin Kerstein. Renee Torbit/Coady Media photo of Jonathan’s