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 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.