Leavitt appointed to Kentucky Racing Authority
4/29/08 KyHarnessRacing.com Source: www.ustrotting.com
4/29/08 KyHarnessRacing.com Source: www.ustrotting.com
- Columbus, OH --- USTA Director Alan Leavitt is one
of five state residents that Kentucky Governor Steve
Beshear has appointed to the Kentucky Horse Racing
Authority to fill a vacancy or expired terms. The
appointees were named in a release from the
governor’s office.
Leavitt, who resides in Lexington and represents
District 6 on the USTA Board, is the president and
general manager of Walnut Hall Ltd., which is owned
by his wife, Meg Jewett. A graduate of Andover and
Harvard, he has been in the Standardbred business
for almost 50 years.
Leavitt is a director of the Hambletonian Society and
the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium,
president of the Kentucky Standardbred Breeders
Association, and a member of the Kentucky Equine
Drug Council. He has been associated with a number
of top horses including Mack Lobell, whom he bred,
and the immortal Speedy Crown, whom he developed
and managed throughout his breeding career.
Leavitt replaces Kenneth Jackson on the KHRA; his
term expires Jan. 6, 2011.
Joining him as new members of the KHRA, which falls
under the Environmental and Public Protection
Cabinet, are Edward “Ned” Bonnie, Foster Northrop,
Elizabeth Lavin, and Robert Beck, Jr.
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