Versailles News

The son of Storm Cat stood for $125,000 in 2009 but will stand for $100,000 in 2010.

Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky, cut the 2010 stud fees for all but one of its returning stallions, including Giant's Causeway and Henrythenavigator.

He will stand in 2010 for $100,000, down from $150,000 in 2009. He stands at Bill Casner and Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky.

14 at Mountaineer Park. Campaigned by James Wilhite, Money's the Object won the six-furlong race by a length in 1:14.86. Bred in Kentucky by Sue Thomas, Money's the Object is the first foal out of the winning Canaveral mare Lira Lira.

His 2010 fee is 20,000 euros. Mastercraftsman, who also was Ireland's champion 2-year-old male, won four of five starts at 2, including the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes , the Bank of Scotland National Stakes , and the One 51 Railway Stakes .

A former staffer of Gov. Ernie Fletcher announced Tuesday he will seek the Republican nomination for the 6th Congressional District seat.

For Democratic Rep. Ben Chandler, controversial votes against a health care overhaul backed by the House Democratic leadership and for cap-and-trade energy policies that could lead to penalties for his state's leading industry are like floodlights signaling to critics that the once seemingly unbeatable congressman may have an exposed flank.

The Kentucky-born trotter Mr. Muscleman, a winner of $3,582,823, has a new home at the Kentucky Horse Park.

Several Indiana state parks will be closed temporarily in the coming weeks for deer hunts.

Lane's End reduced the stud fee for 14 of the 19 stallions who stood at the Versailles, Kentucky, farm in 2009 and will offer a new discount incentive to breeders.

A computer disk containing child pornography is at the center of an investigation of Woodford County Coroner J. Steve Ward, court records unsealed this week indicate.

Police are trying to determine what happened to a man found dead in the bathroom of a Lexington hospital.

When baby boomers were youngsters, caramel apples were a common Halloween treat.

Four former top executives of Lexington's Blue Grass Airport stood before Fayette Circuit Judge Pamela Goodwine and pleaded not guilty Friday morning to theft charges stemming from hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses that the four billed to the airport.

Darley has announced the fees for its 40 stallions standing in Europe and North America for the 2010 breeding season.

There were sobs from the defendant's relatives and approving nods and grins from others in the courtroom Tuesday as a circuit court judge read the verdict finding Lewis "Buck" Ballard guilty of murder and first-degree sodomy.

A Lexington Police Officer was taken to the hospital Monday night after a scuffle during an arrest.

A few of the members of the now 100-year-old Country Book Club have brought books to share, and they've put them on the kitchen island at Margaret Jeffiers's home.

Jason Flynn plays the Grim Reaper on the Haunted Train Ride. He says his big goal is to scare adults.

The son of former Calumet Farm president J.T. Lundy was put on probation and ordered to pay a civil judgement after being convicted of four felony charges of theft by deception involving stallion "seasons," the rights to breed mares to particular stallions for a given year.