Samantha Lederman
Equine ReporterListeners might remember Lederman and her English accent from when she was a morning news anchor on WUKY from 1999 to 2001.
Lederman produces multi-platform horse-related news and feature stories. She also serves as a substitute host for the station’s local broadcasts of NPR’s "All Things Considered."
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A work-in-progress for years, the facility will now provide care for youth with medical and developmental needs.
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A newly released survey is shining a light on youth homelessness in Fayette County and how the public school system hopes to address it. WUKY’s Samantha Lederman has this report.
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Monopoly, the Lexington Edition was unveiled Wednesday and WUKY’s Samantha Lederman landed on Keeneland for the big reveal and brings us this report.
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City and community leaders were on hand this morning to cut the ribbon on six new affordable housing units in Lexington’s East End neighborhood. The townhomes, located at the corner of Race and Third streets, represent the latest effort to address the city’s shortage of affordable housing.
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It’s a once in a lifetime event that took place at a popular Lexington establishment for the second time on Wednesday. WUKY’s Samantha Lederman has the details.
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The Kentucky Derby is known as the most exciting two minutes in sport, but it's days, weeks, months and even years in the planning. WUKY Horse Capital reporter Samantha Lederman recently found out more about the Asbury University Equine Studies program which trains the police horses that will patrol Churchill Downs.
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The Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event wrapped up Sunday afternoon, and when US Rider Tamie Smith lifted the trophy there was barely a dry eye in the house. WUKY’s Samantha Lederman has this report.
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Traditional fox hunting scenes - the pack of hounds running across fields, riders in scarlet coats galloping over hedges. Whether in wood paneled libraries or in the great old, English manor houses like Downton Abbey, they signify an old-fashioned, upper class era, a sport of a time long gone by. But as WUKY Horse Capital reporter Samantha Lederman discovered, fox-hunting still takes place all over the world. There are three different hunt clubs in Kentucky and she recently spent a day with Spencer Allen, the huntsman of the Long Run Woodford to find out more.
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The Kentucky Wildcats’ final home game of the season takes place tonight in Rupp Arena and that means soon it’ll be March mania time once again. We don’t often send our equestrian reporter Samantha Lederman to cover basketball, but you may be surprised to learn that she shares a common passion with UK Sophomore forward Daimion Collins and she recently sat down with him (during practice) to find out a little more.
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Established in 1939, the Keeneland Library is a public research/reference library that is one of the world's largest repositories of information related to the Thoroughbred. WUKY Horse Capital reporter Samantha Lederman recently spoke to Library Director Becky Ryder about the library, its latest exhibit and a recent best-selling novel based on a horse called Lexington.