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For those tracking the progress, local and state leaders welcomed Keeneland and Kentucky Downs officials to the site off Buchanan Boulevard for the official ground breaking of the Cumberland Run horse racing facility on Monday afternoon. “We never lost hope,” said Corbin Mayor...

Construction on the planned standardbred horse racing facility in Corbin is slated to begin this summer, but its first live racing meet will officially begin on Sunday. While construction on the planned facility has yet to begin, it had secured live racing dates that will be held...

More than seven years after it was first publicly announced and nine years since it was first proposed, officials with Keeneland announced Tuesday that dirt will begin moving on Cumberland Run and its extension facility in Williamsburg this summer with completion scheduled for...

Members of the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will receive an update on the long-planned horse racing track in Corbin and extension facility in Williamsburg on Tuesday when Vince Gabbert, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Keeneland Association, Inc. speaks at...

Now that the Kentucky General Assembly has resolved the legality of “historical wagering machines” at track facilities in the state, Williamsburg leaders say they are expecting to see designs in about two months for the proposed “historical wagering” facility that Keeneland plans...

The future of Keeneland’s proposed horse racing track in Corbin, which includes an extension facility in Williamsburg, is now in the state legislature’s hands after the Kentucky Supreme Court denied a petition to rehear the case in which it had previously ruled against historical...

Millions of dollars in revenue and hundreds of jobs will be coming soon to the tri-county. On Tuesday, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission approved a license for Keeneland to bring a traditional harness racing track to Knox County. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents...

The quarter horse racing track that was first proposed for Corbin in 2014 is undergoing a change of plans that will see it instead built to accommodate traditional thoroughbred racing, and see an extension facility constructed off of Interstate 75 in Williamsburg. Officials with...

State Senate President Robert Stivers, R–Manchester, attended the Corbin City Commission’s regular meeting Monday night where he accepted the 2019 Friend of Cities Award from the Kentucky League of Cities, and took the time to answer questions concerning the state of the proposed...

While the Kentucky Racing Commission had previously stated that it would not take action on the applications for two new racing licenses submitted as part of a joint project by Keeneland and Churchill Down, which includes the proposed quarter horse track in Corbin, it appears...