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.
Today’s Keeneland barn notes by the track’s publicity department (Keeneland photo above of jockey Dylan (left), valet Muriel and jockey Luan Machado) The
************************* ************************ Barn notes by Keeneland’s publicity department (Coady Media/Maddy Becker photo above of Utah Beach’s 2025 victory in the VisitLEX Elkhorn) DEFENDING
Stakes recaps by Keeneland’s publicity department (Coady Media/Casey Cable photo of Zulu Kingdom and Flavien Prat winning the G1 Maker’s Mark Mile) Front-Running
Kevin Kerstein’s weekly Derby Dispatch (Coady Media photo of Confessional winning his debut last fall at Keeneland) Lexington: https://www.twinspires.com/documents/brisnet/past-performances/Lexington_Keeneland_ultimatepps_2026.pdf ROAD TO KENTUCKY DERBY 152
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A Second Stride press release (Gwen Davis/Davis Innovation photo of last year’s Champions Night at Valhalla Golf Club) PROSPECT, Ky. (Tuesday, April 7,
Keeneland stakes recap (Coady Media/John Gallagher photo above of Further Ado’s Blue Grass victory) Video with comments from Irad Ortiz, Cox, Gustavson, Prat,
An Equibase press release (Keeneland photos of horses leaving the starting gate) Equibase Company, the Thoroughbred industry’s official database for racing information, today