Derby - Todays Woman

What We Love About Her Style

By Miranda PoppThis local entrepreneur and army veteran is unabashedly frank about where she came from, what she’s doing, and where she’s going. RaeShanda Johnson, founder and CEO of All is Fair in Love and Fashion, has been handing out style advice since she was a young girl. “I’ve always been overdressed and a little extra.”“Size and fit are important,” RaeShanda says, “but personality will let me know how to style you. Focus on what you have and what makes you confident, rather than what you’d like for yourself to be.” She says to think [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-08T08:30:00-04:00April 8, 2017|Derby, Looks Book, What We Love|

How Can I Help the Horses?

By Brigid MorrisseyKris is with her horse Bella who, along with her mom, was found in a pasture with nofood or water and severely underweight. Both were taken to Heartland Equine Rescue. It is said that the camera adds 10 pounds, but photographer Kris Warning wished the camera could add 1,000 pounds when she encountered her first rescue horse at a photography shoot. One of her friends bought the horse for $40 at an auction, but the price was based on weight Kris says, “I photographed the mare — who was skin and bones — to [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-07T08:30:00-04:00April 7, 2017|Derby, Giving Back|

What Works for Lisa Stevenson

By Lucy M. Pritchett If you happen to be at any one of the Kentucky Derby Festival events this year, look for a small woman with a big smile, bursting with enthusiasm and energy. That will be Lisa Stevenson, the 2017 chairman of the Kentucky Derby Festival. Please stop her and say ‘hello.’Lisa has served on the KDF board for nine years and served on the executive board the last seven years. During that time she has worked all the A events — the miniMarathon, Thunder Over Louisville, and the Pegasus Parade. “I was too [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-04T08:30:00-04:00April 4, 2017|Derby, What Works|

What the Horse Trainer is Reading, Watching, and Listening to

By Megan M. Seckman Years ago on the North Dakota Chippewa tribe’s reservation, Turtle Mountain, there lived a family of four little girls and a pasture of broken-down thoroughbreds. Each day, the girls would exercise these horses the rest of the race industry no longer deemed valuable. The girls’ father, Sylvester Alex Poitra, may have quietly wished for boys, but taught each daughter to ride before they could properly walk. And that is how he made a living out of these discarded, maned athletes — and how Reta Underwood was introduced to the world of [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-02T08:30:00-04:00April 2, 2017|Derby, She's Reading|