Democratic Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear signed an executive order July 3 reorganizing and renaming the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority (KHRA), which is now the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC).

Several of the “new” members already had been appointed to fill expired terms. The only holdovers from the KHRA, established when Republican Ernie Fletcher became governor four years ago, are Tom Ludt and Thomas Gaines, who will serve on the new KHRC.

Along with Ludt and Gaines, members of the KHRC are Robert M. Beck, chairman; Tracy Farmer, vice chairman; Edward S. Bonnie; Francis Thomas Conway; John T. Ward, Jr.; Frank L. Jones Jr.; Burr James Travis II; Michael Anthony Pitino; Jerry L. Yon; Elizabeth “Betsy” Stone Lavin; Dr. Foster Harold Northrop; Alan J. Leavitt; and Wade Houston.

Ward currently serves on the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council. Jones, active in the Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, was a member of the Kentucky Racing Commission before it was abolished by Fletcher