The Kentucky Horse Council has announced the November Kentucky Equine Networking Association (KENA) topic Building Your Equine Business: A Panel Discussion on Creating and Marketing Your Equine Business and the Current Tax Initiative and Economic Climate. The dinner will be held on November 17, 2015 at Fasig-Tipton in Lexington, Kentucky. KENA is a dinner and educational series open to both equine professionals and horse owners and will feature a networking reception from 5:30-6:00 PM, followed by dinner with the main speaker from 6-8 PM.

The group, focused on the Kentucky Thoroughbred, sport, and pleasure horse community, is charged with the mission of providing an educational and social venue for equine professionals and horse enthusiasts from all disciplines. KENA, which is supported by the University of Kentucky Ag Equine Program and the Kentucky Horse Council, provides the opportunity for attendees to share ideas and business strategies and to obtain up-to-date knowledge on horse and farm management.

The November Building Your Equine Business Panel will feature speakers Rich Wilcke, Sarah Coleman, and Joe Clabes. Wilcke is the Past Chair of the Center of Equine Management at the University of Louisville, Coleman is the Director of Education and Development at New Vocations, and Clabes is the Executive Director of KEEP.

The Kentucky Equine Networking Association welcomes all Kentucky horse owners, professionals and enthusiasts to attend the November 17 event. For details and reservations, visit www.kentuckyhorse.org.

The Kentucky Horse Council is a non-profit organization dedicated, through education and leadership, to the protection and development of the Kentucky equine community. The Kentucky Horse Council provides educational programs and information, outreach and communication to Kentucky horse owners and enthusiasts, equine professional networking opportunities through KENA, trail riding advocacy, health and welfare programs, and personal liability insurance and other membership benefits. The specialty Kentucky Horse Council license plate, featuring a foal lying in the grass, provides the primary source of revenue for KHC programs