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KY-Bred Champion Nominees Announced

Nominees include eight Eclipse Award winners and the dams of 2012 grade I winners Beholder, Wise Dan, Point of Entry, and Dullahan.

 Wednesday, February 13, 2013

KTA/KTOB Makes Changes to Champion Voting

The new rules expand Kentucky-bred champions and KTOB Broodmare of the Year voting opportunities to additional eligible KTA/KTOB members.

 Thursday, January 31, 2013

New Marketing Position to Sell Kentucky Brand

Melissa Nolan is the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders' new marketing and communications coordinator.

 Friday, April 13, 2012

KY Farm Tour Web Site to be Launched

In an effort to promote the local Thoroughbred industry, a recently formed company called Horse Capital Productions will launch a Web site Jan. 15 to serve as a bridge between farms and tour companies in the Bluegrass.

 Thursday, December 17, 2009
KY Senators Seek Public Vote on Gaming

KY Senators Seek Public Vote on Gaming

During a presentation to members of the horse industry at the Kentucky Horse Park Oct. 20, Kentucky Senate President David Williams and Sen. Damon Thayer, both Republicans, proposed constitutional amendments regarding the future of the state's horse industry.

 Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Loans to be Offered for Ice Storm Relief

Loans to be Offered for Ice Storm Relief

Kentucky Thoroughbred farms seeking financial aid to cover their immense repair efforts for damages caused by an ice storm the week of Jan. 25 could soon receive some federal relief in the form of a loan.

 Friday, March 13, 2009

Horse Industry Groups to Fund Economic Study

Three Kentucky horse industry groups have agreed to finance an economic impact study to help determine how a new state breeders incentive fun should be crafted.

 Thursday, July 28, 2005

KTOB Asks for State Investigation of Strangles Outbreak

The Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders sent a letter to Gov. Ernie Fletcher April 8 requesting a state investigation regarding the equine bacterial disease strangles and its recent spread from Kentucky to Florida and then back.

 Tuesday, April 19, 2005

KTA/KTOB Announces Results of Election

The Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders has completed its election for directors for 2004-2005.

 Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Mineshaft Heads Kentucky-Bred Champions

Mineshaft, the nation's 2003 Horse of the Year and champion older male, and his dam, Prospectors Delite, headlined the award winners honored April 15 at Keeneland by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders.

 Thursday, April 15, 2004

Mineshaft's Dam, Prospectors Delite, Kentucky Broodmare Champ

It seemed a foregone conclusion once William S. Farish and partners' homebred Mineshaft started gobbling up graded stakes after graded stakes last year.

 Thursday, April 15, 2004

Registration Fees for Kentucky-breds to Increase

Registration fees for eligible Kentucky-breds will jump by 50% to 100% under a plan approved Oct. 2 by the Kentucky Racing Commission at the request of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders.

 Thursday, October 02, 2003

MRLS Loan Regulations Being Drafted

Federal and state officials are drafting regulations for federal loans that will be available for eligible farmers impacted by mare reproductive loss syndrome.

 Friday, December 28, 2001

Survey Shows Demographic Profile of Central Kentucky Horse Farmers

Fact or fiction: The typical Central Kentucky Thoroughbred farm owner has a palatial spread, hundreds of horses, and money to burn? According to the results of a demographic survey commissioned by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders, it's fiction. The general population, though, may believe it to be true.

 Monday, November 19, 2001

KTA/KTOB Elects Board of Directors

Though officers remain the same, there are several new members of the board of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders, which recently held its election.

 Friday, July 07, 2000