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Article: AT 25, KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FINDS SUCCESS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Byline: Murray Evans Associated Press
LEXINGTON -- In 2003, the Kentucky Horse Park is thriving, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors and dozens of special events each year.
But in 1980, the fledgling park was struggling and didn't exactly have the support of everyone in Kentucky government. Early that year, then-Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. noted the park had lost $1.6 million in its first 1 1/2 years of operation and called it a "white elephant."
That remark caught the attention of horse park officials, said Bill Cooke, who has been the director of the park's International Museum of the Horse since it opened.
"It really made the ...