Dr. Jill Stowe, University of Kentucky professor and TEK Faculty Fellow, was recently featured on Freakonomics Radio episode 652, “Inside the Horse-Industrial Complex.” In this episode—part of the podcast’s series The Horse Is Us—Stowe explains the economic forces that make Kentucky the global hub for the thoroughbred industry. Drawing on more than 15 years of research in equine markets and behavioral economics, she discusses how Kentucky’s dense network of breeding farms, veterinarians, transporters, farriers, and auction houses forms a powerful “economic cluster” that shapes the modern horse industry and unites multiple fields around one focus: the horse.
