You will be sharing the Park with other shows, maybe be breed or open, What week is it?
Devers is the feed, bedding and golf cart renter, they are very, very good and will have your bedding and feed dropped at your stall within a couple of hours of your ordering it. Recommend you wait until you get there…bales of hay, bags of feed and bedding piled outside empty stalls can prove too tempting. They’ll run a tab for you if you leave a c c#. Think they have a website. And yes it’s fairly easy to hang stall drapes and such.
Recommend you get an extra stall for grooming and storing feed and run of the mill horse care items, grooming stuff, sheets, leg wraps, fly spray etc. put anything loose in the extra stall and lock it. Tack trunks in the aisle are fine, but lock them. Fancy show tack needs to go into your personal vehicle and withyou to the hotel, the inevitable, local deadbeats you can find at any show are quite a bit more knowledgeable about what’s worth stealing then you’ll find elsewhere what with the TB industry employing so many.
Your stalls will be attached to the Alltech arena, all under cover IIRC. Your trailer parking, if you don’t ship commercial, is probably 1/2 mile away down the hill by the main entrance. Get a hitch lock, don’t leave anything in it. Whole trailers have been towed out and unhitched by the side road after they jimmy the locks and take the saddles out. Don’t leave them down there.
Car parking for Alltech is fairly close but you may want a golf cart. The four seaters sell out early, you can reserve one online. You NEED stall fans but be sure you read the Park regs included in your show entry packet for specific electrical equipment and plug restrictions. Count on heat and humidity, usually rains once or twice a week but T Storms move quick, not all day. Except for low spots, the ground soaks it up or it drags quickly.
Keep in mind this is a State Park, shows rent facilities from them and despite the warnings above, they have State Police on the property…but that also means they actually check Horse paperwork entering and leaving, you HAVE to buy a parking pass and can get ticketed for parking and, if they need to generate revenue, speeding.
Theres more tourist and local foot traffic then at most showgrounds except for Fair shows. Hence the lock up recommendations, the cops try but it’s a big place.
I really hope you can hack out on your horse(s), Its huge and that bluegrass and the trees are flat out stunning, know you’ll really be impressed by it. You can ride by the Rolex jumps and Head of the Lake, it cruise it a golf cart. And book a TB stud farm tour, those barns make Cinderella’s Castle look like a dump. Book one early so you have a shot at seeing some very famous horses, the best ones fill up early.
