The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture’s Nancy Cox, MS, PhD, will be one of Kentucky’s visionaries and innovators honored at Bluegrass Tomorrow’s 20th Anniversary Vision Awards/InnoVision Breakfast Oct. 30 at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington.

Cox, associate dean for research in UK’s College of Agriculture, Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station director and administrative leader for UK’s Equine Initiative, is being recognized for her long-term vision in support of the Bluegrass and its signature equine industry.

In addition, she has been invited to serve as one of four visionary panelists and will focus on the Equine Initiative and the recommendations that came out of a Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government-commissioned Equine Task Force, of which she was a participant.

“Bluegrass Tomorrow has recognized from its inception 20 years ago that, as a region, our greatest common denominator is the unique land itself. This Bluegrass has produced most of the best equine athletes in the world for some 200 years. Under the passionate direction of Nancy Cox, UK’s Equine Initiative was conceived and is being implemented to coordinate education, service and science under one roof to sustain and support equine enterprises for the people and businesses of the commonwealth,” said Don Robinson, director of Bluegrass Tomorrow, current president of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders and fourth generation Thoroughbred farm owner and breeder