It is certainly the horse racing season in the Commonwealth. Saturday's 150th running of the Kentucky Derby follows the 100th running of the Bluegrass Stakes last month at Keeneland. Lexington Rotarians got their annual Thoroughbred racing update Thursday.
Before longtime radio broadcaster and horse racing expert Tom Leach gave his picks for the Derby, Keeneland President Shannon Arvin briefed club members on the Lexington track’s $93 million construction project. Whenever there’s work done, Arvin says the question comes, ‘are you gonna mess up it up?’ She said steps are being taken to keep some of the old literally in the new building.
“It will be the same stone. Not just the same kind of stone. The same stone. We were able to save 80% of the stone from the ad min building that we took down,” said Arvin.
