of those events he grew from having 50
participants in its first year to being the largest
of its kind anywhere in the world last year.
"When [Dawson] first started [hosting events
at the Castle], everyone was like, 'Central
Kentucky?'," Bramer said. "He used to do
them in places like Aruba and Yellowstone.
We all felt like this was a place, Central
Kentucky, that has so much to offer.
We have a great bourbon industry,
it's the Thoroughbred capital of
the world; just those two alone
would bring people in, but Central
Kentucky in the spring and in the
fall is probably the most beautiful
place in the world to us. So we
wanted to bring people in and show
them what it was all about. And," he
added, "none of us had ever owned a
Castle before."
