Chip Bach:  

I'll start after high school graduation... I went to Eastern Kentucky University for the party, not for the GPA. Graduated (at my father's request) from EKU in 1985. By then my folks had moved from Versailles (back) to Chicago to New Hampshire (They are back in Chicago now). I started working for Digital Equipment Corp in Boston as a consultant in '86. I began working on my MBA (New Hampshire College) and realized I really liked to learn. Due to my transfer to the midwest and the heavy travel demand I only earned about 3/4 of the credits I needed for my masters. I didn't get the 'skin, I did get to see the country... DEC relocated me to Cincinnati in 1990, about the time my first nephew was born in Lexington, KY. I have been able to be a part of my Sister Debbie and her husband Jay's family (Matt, Ben, and Caroline), which has been nice. We is tight. My (then) girlfriend (Kendra) moved from NH to Cincinnati a year later, in 1991. We married in 1993. In 1992 I started working in New York City (Mid-Town Manhattan) for the next 18 months (Monday thru Friday) from Cincinnati. While Kendra loved having full control of the TV remote, it wasn't good for our relationship. Digital wanted me to move to NYC, and that wasn't going to happen so I left Digital in 1994 to work for a different computer company; ENTEX Information Services. I was asked to help start a training division in 1995 (and did). Governor G. Voinovich recognized the team I managed for being one of the five best training departments in Ohio in 1998. I left ENTEX in 1999 to work on the executive team of a NTRA thoroughbred racetrack, Turfway Park, reporting to a college friend and former coworker of Kendra. It's was a blast! As General Manager I never know the next challenge that will pop up at the racetrack. Besides, what other job lets you ride your own horse during a work day? In 2011 my friend/boss left and I was given his job. There is no greater feeling than leading a KENTUCKY Thoroughbred Race Track. It is a huge honor to play a role in the history of Kentucky horse racing... Kendra and I started off as good friends for years before we dated. In 1988 we actually both had a dream, within a few days of each other, that we had twins together. We had a running joke with our friends about our (make believe) twins. Imagine the weirdness of actually having twin...Expand for more