Versailles News

A fire that destroyed a McCracken Pike house on Monday might have had an electrical cause, Woodford County Fire Chief Bennie Green said.

Fire completely destroyed a home in Woodford County early Monday. The fire started just before 4 a.m. at a house at 330 McCracken Pike in Versailles.

Versailles artist Damon Farmer, a Berea native and Berea College graduate, works on his latest sand sculpture Friday at Berea City Park as part of the city's 4th of July Spectacular.

Two-year-old fillies were in the spotlight Wednesday night as Historic Week began at the Meadowlands.

Draw a Blank outfinished runner-up Golden Guilder by a neck to win the opening race on Wednesday night at Presque Isle Downs and become the first career winner for deceased freshman sire and 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam.

When Ilze Sillers carried the pawpaws from her small farm in Versailles to the Woodford County Farmers' Market last year, some people - probably city folks - didn't know what they were.

Long Lashes raced in fifth, surged into contention with a furlong to go, and won the Ballygallon Stud Stakes in her career debut on Thursday at the Curragh to become the first winner for Central Kentucky-based freshman sire Rock Hard Ten .

The Mill Springs Battlefield Association is inviting the public to help tell the story of the Battle of Mill Springs.

An elderly visitor to a Frankfort nursing home has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a patient at the facility during the visit.

Ben P. Walden Jr., president of Hurricane Hall near Lexington, has announced that the farm's stallion operation will be relocated to his newly purchased 265-acre Pauls Mill near Versailles, Ky.

Brendon Lyons, 6, rinses mud from under his armpits after he ran in the Dash for Cash as Tyler Lacy and Austin Wynn wait their turn in line at Muddina for Cancer.

Versailles police officers continued Monday to investigate an early-morning car wreck that killed a University of Kentucky student and closed a major highway for nearly four hours.

Prominent sire and European Horse of the Year Giant s Causeway heads a list of eight Coolmore stallions shuttling to South America for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

Through an intense mental and physical training, Craig Caudill will be able to help young men push "beyond their self-imposed limits" and learn self-discipline. "They will learn to knock the barriers down between each other," Caudill said.

Making her first start, Termagant came from behind to win the seven-furlong race in 1:27.40 for Mrs.

A Versailles police officer and her live-in boyfriend are free on bond after they were arrested Monday night on charges of violating a court's emergency protective order.

Three Chimneys, located in Versailles, Ky., is home to one of Americaa s favorite horses, Smarty Jones, along with other former champion racehorses.

The gelding captured the 4 1/2-furlong race by 1 1/2 lengths in :53.64 for Our Blue Streaks Stable and Pre K Stable.

Horse lovers are invited to take a free, horse-drawn wagon tour of the All About Horses event at the Lindsay Fairgrounds June 6 and 7. "The goal of the All About Horses event is to entertain, educate, and inspire in a celebration of the horse and the equestrians in and around the Lindsay area," a press release for the event states.

Owned by Chester and Mary Broman, the 21-year-old daughter of Cox's Ridge had produced a Hook and Ladder colt two days earlier.