Kentucky Horse Park chosen as a top 25 destination by TripAdvisor

The Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, has been chosen as an overall
winner in the Top 25 Amusement Parks and Water Parks in the United States
category by TripAdvisor in its
2013 Travelers’ Choice awards for attractions. For reviews on the Kentucky Horse Park,
please click

here.

One of the world’s largest travel sites, TripAdvisor has established itself as
one of the most important for travel information among consumers due to its
platform of posting unbiased reviews of real travelers.

This is the first year that Travelers’ Choice honors have
been presented to attractions. The TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Attractions
awards recognize the world’s best landmarks, parks, museums, and amusement and
water parks, based on millions of valuable reviews and opinions from travelers
around the world on TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor uses a proprietary algorithm that
determines rankings based on the quantity, quality and frequency of reviews for
any given property.

“We are thrilled to be honored by TripAdvisor as one of the
Top 25 Amusement Parks in the United States, and are fully cognizant of the
excellent company we are in,” said John Nicholson, executive director of the
Kentucky Horse Park. “We understand and appreciate that it is not only TripAdvisor
but also the reviews of our visitors that have afforded us this honor, and we
will strive to continue to be worthy of their esteem and recognition.”

The Kentucky Horse Park is “THE place to get close to horses” (James Shambhu/Kentucky Horse Park)

The Kentucky Horse Park is unique in the Top 25 Amusement
Parks and Water Parks category, being the only attraction devoted entirely to
the horse. Known as “THE place to get close to horses,” there are plenty of
opportunities to do so throughout the park. From meeting retired racing greats
at the Hall of Champions, to seeing horses of all types and sizes in the Horses
of the World Show, taking a ride with draft horses on the Horse Drawn Tour, or
petting mares and foals in the Kids Barn, visitors get a personal experience
with horses when visiting the park.

Admission to the park includes three different equine
museums. The International Museum of the Horse, a Smithsonian Affiliate,
explores man’s relationship with the horse throughout history. The American
Saddlebred Museum & Gift Shop, the “Showplace for Saddlebreds,” is the home of
Kentucky’s first native breed of horse and is exhibiting “The Art of Selling
with Saddlebreds: The Show Horse in Vintage Advertising” through January. The
Wheeler Museum in the United States Hunter Jumper Association headquarters
exhibits memorabilia from the hunter jumper sport and the Show Jumping Hall of
Fame.

In addition, the Kentucky Horse Park hosts equine
competitions and breed shows, special breeds weekends and community events
throughout the many competition and show facilities located on park grounds,
most of which are included with park admission. Events are scheduled nearly
every weekend at the park throughout the year, and a full listing of these
events and their dates is available at
KyHorsePark.com.