Library Director Becky Ryder tells me the exhibit will run until the end of August, and will then exist in perpetuity online. She hopes schools and local community groups will visit, and the library is already making plans to adapt the components into a mobile exhibit to further increase it’s exposure.
Those four hall of farmers are jockeys Isaac Murphy and Jimmy Winkfield, trainer Ansel Williamson and trainer/owner Ed Brown.
Greg Harbut, a bloodstock agent, Kentucky Horse Racing Commissioner, co-owner of Living The Dream Racing Stable and Chair of the Ed Brown Society has a personal connection to the exhibit
Ron Hill has worked for Keeneland Sales as a Ring Man for 24 years. The person holding the horse when the gavel drops - that’s Ron, and it’s a deceptively skilled position that takes years of experience and a certain innate quality to pull off.
Hill has traveled the world with horses, and he has come to the Library today with his wife, who he met while working, with horses, in Japan for a year. He is delighted with the exhibit.
The Keeneland Library, nestled just behind the Keene Entertainment Barn on “The Hill” is open Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm and is free and open to the public.
