Track bugler
Age: 82
Years at Keeneland: 49
Have you ever added up how many times you’ve played the call to the post?
I haven’t ever tried. But I know we had a little party for my 10,000th call, and that had to be about 8 or 9 years ago.
A Kentucky judge has denied a request for injunction sought by a conservative group to stop betting on gambling devices at Kentucky Downs.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals denied the injunction on Wednesday, writing that “it cannot agree that the injury is irreparable or one that could not be rectified through the current litigation.”
Supervisor of track kitchen
Age: 63
Years at Keeneland: 34
What’s the biggest change since you started here?
The telephone! Telephones weren’t even allowed here when I started. You had to run down to the office to make an emergency phone call. Now you can’t live without them. I don’t even understand how people survived without the telephone.
Head of maintenance
Age: 57
Years at Keeneland: 34
First position: maintenance crew
Do you have a favorite tree at Keeneland?
The magnolias. Beautiful trees. I love them so much I planted a bunch of them at my house.
What about a favorite place?
No, I don’t have one place. It’s the whole grounds. The whole place itself. I’ve been over every inch of this place. The whole place is special to me.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − In late June 1943, a group of yearling consignors convened at the Lafayette Hotel in Lexington, Ky. They were in a hurry. The Fasig-Tipton summer yearling sale, held for years in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was coming to Kentucky in just six weeks, thanks to the wartime cancellation of Saratoga’s race meet, railroad restrictions, and gasoline rationing.
