{"id":12077,"date":"2019-01-29T18:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:18:58","slug":"thoroughbred-people-exercise-rider-kody-kellenberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/thoroughbred-people-exercise-rider-kody-kellenberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoroughbred People: Exercise Rider Kody Kellenberger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Kody Kellenberger \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Occupation:\u00a0<\/strong>Exercise Rider<\/p>\r\n

Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Lexington,\u00a0KY<\/p>\r\n

What are your earliest memories of big races or\/and horses?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Watching California Chrome and American Pharoah.<\/p>\r\n

How did you get involved in horse racing?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

I started working at RimRoc farm as a groom in Lexington KY moving from Upstate NY where I worked with show horses. Mostly reiners and then hunter jumpers. My first riding job was at Kenny Mcpeek\u2019s Magdalena farm breaking babies.<\/p>\r\n

Which have been the best or\/and your favorite horses that you have ridden so far?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

That\u2019s hard to pick! I really enjoy difficult\/challenging horses two of my favorites from this past year are Markitoff because he was a pain in the morning but would run his heart out in the afternoons and at a very competitive level. Another was Somelikeithotbrown who finished 3rd in the breeders cup Juvenile turf.<\/p>\r\n

Which horses you have ridden have had the biggest characters\/personalities?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The ones that come to mind first for me are Markitoff, Shiraz, Sky Chief and Shangroyal.<\/p>\r\n

Which have been the toughest horses you have ridden?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Markitoff, Sky Chief, Mom Genes<\/p>\r\n

If you were in charge of horse racing, what things would you want to fix and what measures would you take to improve the sport\/industry?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

I think everyone should start from the bottom working their way up. Start as a hot walker and prove yourself to move up.<\/p>\r\n

Five For Fun<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Favorite Music\/Artists:\u00a0<\/strong>Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Highwaymen, AC\/DC<\/p>\r\n

Favorite Books\/Movies\/Writers\/Actors:\u00a0<\/strong>The Frontiersman By Allen Ekert<\/p>\r\n

Favorite Type of Food\/Restaurant:\u00a0<\/strong>Good NY Pizza<\/p>\r\n

Tell us something that you are good at, or something that you have done in your life, that might surprise some people:<\/strong>\u00a0I used to take flying lessons and wanted to be a pilot.<\/p>\r\n

You are having a fantasy dinner party of up to six guests. Who would you invite and why?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Waylon Jennings and the entire cast of the Highwaymen. I\u2019m a big fan of country music especially the outlaw country period of the 70s.<\/p>\r\n

If you are a “Thoroughbred Person”, are involved in our great sport of Thoroughbred Horse Racing and would like to do our Q & A please click <\/em>H<\/a>ere<\/a>\u00a0 – Thank You!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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\"\" Name:\u00a0Kody Kellenberger \u00a0\u00a0Occupation:\u00a0Exercise Rider
\nLocation:\u00a0Lexington,\u00a0KY What are your earliest memories of big races or\/and horses? Watching California Chrome and American Pharoah.
\nHow did you get involved in horse racing? I started working at RimRoc farm as a groom in Lexington KY moving from Upstate NY where I worked with show horses. Mostly reiners and then hunter jumpers. My first riding job was at Kenny Mcpeek\u2019s Magdalena farm breaking babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoroughbred-people","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13089,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions\/13089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}