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Despite the cold, the news cycle of the week in the bluegrass rode a hot streak.
In Frankfort, the state’s capital, the House of Representatives approved legislation protecting Historical Horse Racing just a few days after it had passed the Senate. Gov. Andy Beshear is expected to sign the bill that redefines the state’s definition of pari-mutuel wagering to include HHR games. A good portion of HHR revenue fuels purses in Kentucky, which obviously benefits horsemen and should green light construction and renovation projects at Churchill Downs, Ellis Park, and Turfway Park.
The swift work of horse-friendly senator Damon Thayer and representatives David Osborne and Matt Koch is to be commended. Prior to that vote late on Feb. 11 came news from Keeneland that was equally commendable.
Margaret Alberta (Welton) Whitehead, 94, passed away on Dec. 28, 2020, at the Memory Care unit of Edgewood Vista in Virginia, Minn.
Margaret was born on Aug. 17, 1926, on a family vacation in Lacomb, Alberta, Canada. She was brought into the world in a Welton family home. Her older brother Roy was heard to say, âI ve changed 4 tires, I hope I don t have to change her!â
After the family purchased a ranch on Pass Creek in Wyoming, which they named the Hat Creek Ranch, they first moved from Franklin, Pa., and then Denver, Colo. She grew up on that vast ranch at the base of beautiful Elk Mountain, about 40 miles east of Rawlins, Wyo. The land was sprawling and never ending. It was there in a one room schoolhouse that her dad had built that she and her two sisters attended daily classes. Her three brothers were either working on the ranch or attending high school in Rawlins; as she and her sisters would, as well. They stayed at a boarding house during the week and rode the bus