About KEEP
Bennie Sargent

Bennie Sargent

Bennie is a lifelong resident of Georgetown, KY. He began his career of showing Quarter Horses as a youth in 4-H. Bennie has been a professional trainer for 20 years, and specializes in training all-around horses. He has trained and shown horses to seven versatility championships, multiple AQHA championships, and numerous AQHA Honor Roll titles in several events, including halter, reining, working hunter and trail. Bennie has also guided his amateur adult and youth riders to AQHA and AQHYA World and Congress Championships.

Bennie has been a national American Quarter Horse Association Director for the past 6 years and an AQHA judge for the past 7 years; he judged the the All-American Quarter Horse Congress in 1999 and 2003, the AQYHA World Championship show in 1999 and 2002, the AQHA Amateur World Select Show in 2003, the European Championship Show, the Belgium Nationals, the Texas Classic, the Tom Powers Futurity, the Arizona Sun Circuit and the New Zealand Nationals. Bennie is active on the Professional Horseman's Association, has served on the World Show Task Force Committee and the Long Range Strategic Planning Committee for AQHA shows.

Our Mission

To increase awareness of the benefits of Kentucky's horse economy and to promote jobs and economic opportunities for Kentuckians through the Commonwealth's world-class horse industry.

Goals

Educate the public and key state constituencies about the benefits the entire horse industry provides to all sectors of Kentucky's economy

  • Develop a state grassroots network involving Kentucky's horse economy in all 120 counties
  • Build a state coalition of diverse organizations supporting Kentucky's horse economy.

Encourage the development of a pro-jobs and economic opportunities agenda for the Kentucky horse economy to include:

  • Increased state advocacy and promotion of the Kentucky horse industry
  • Initiatives to stimulate jobs and economic growth through economic incentives and tax reform to solidify Kentucky's horse economy leadership to attract new horse industry interests to the state.
  • Expansion of existing state horse economy programs for all breeds such as the Kentucky Breeder's Incentive Program, to encourage ownership of Kentucky-bred horses
Key Initiatives
  • Distribution of fact-based Kentucky horse economy information.
  • Team 120: A broad-based grassroots network of horse economy participants in every Kentucky county.
  • A state advisory committee consisting of prominent horse industry representatives from all sectors of Kentucky's horse economy.
  • A state coalition of organizations with horse economy-related interests including state and local chambers of commerce, rotaries, businesses, labor and trade associations.
Charter Member Organizations

Chairman

Brereton Jones
Governor of Kentucky (1991-95)
Airdrie Stud

Vice-Chairman

Bill Casner
Chairman and Co-Founder
WinStar Farm

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