HORSE RACING RADIO NETWORK TEAM
 

Mike Penna
Host

Mike Penna first sat down behind a microphone in 2003 when he began co-hosting the popular Saturday morning Equine Forum talk show. In 2005, Mike and co-host Pete Kules established the Horse Racing Radio Network. The duo travel to racetracks around the country, providing fans with live coverage of many of the nation’s biggest races. His passion for racing spans more than 19 years. In 1989, he stood alongside the rail at historic Saratoga Racecourse and watched as Easy Goer won the Travers Stakes. After cashing his winning ticket on the heavy favorite, he was hooked for life.A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Mike and his wife, Michelle, relocated to Lexington in 1997. Mike worked at The Jockey Club, Thoroughbred Times, and Keeneland's racing office before pursuing his interest in broadcasting.

Pete Kules
Host

Pete brings a lifetime of broadcast and Thoroughbred racing experience to the Lexus Equine Forum.  Pete's passion for the sport spans six decades, earning his first stripes as a hot walker and groom.  After stints as a vet's assistant and assistant starter, Pete parlayed his backside experience, going on to call and handicap Thoroughbred and harness races, as well as launching a four-decade career as a sports writer and broadcaster.

An award-winning broadcaster, Pete has covered professional and college athletics throughout North America.  However, it is horse racing that has held  Pete's interest for six decades.
Jude Feld
Paddock Reporter

Jude Feld joined the HRRN team in 2007 as paddock reporter and analyst. He has loved Thoroughbred racing since his youth. He began his horseracing career in 1978, making charts for the Daily Racing Form at Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky under the tutelage of legendary trackman Jack Valentine. After a stint as assistant trainer to Doug Udouj in the Bluegrass State and to Julio Canani in California, Jude took out his own trainer's license in 1980. He has trained the winners of 23 stakes, including graded winners Pewter Grey, Steff Graf (Brz) and Vieille Vigne (Fr) as well as multiple stakes winners Broadway Pointe, Freya Stark (Ire), Order and Capel Meister (Fr). Retiring from training in 2000, Jude became a racing publicist, public handicapper and bloodstock consultant. In 2003, he was honored with an Eclipse Award, alongside G.D. Hieronymus, for their collaboration “If it was easy…everyone would do it,” which he wrote and G.D. produced for Keeneland. Jude has an intimate knowledge of the Sport of Kings and countless friends in the Thoroughbred racing industry.
Billy White
Analyst

Billy White began working with HRRN in 2006 when he served as an analyst alongside Mike & Pete. He is a chicago native and entrepreneur who considers Lexington KY his second hometown and Keeneland racecourse as hallowed grounds. When not working with HRRN, he operates a sales company and is an owner of several Jimmy John's restaurants. Billy is a racing enthusiast who has owned horses in partnership with Ashby Thoroughbreds since 1999. He refers to himself as a "frustrated handicapper and horse pontificator".
Rowland Hoyt
Analyst

Rowland "Rolly" Hoyt joined HRRN in 2007 as an analyst alongside Mike Penna. Originally from Massachusetts, he now lives in Northern Kentucky as the researcher and statistician for all ESPN horse racing broadcasts and based in South Florida during the winter as a television host for Gulfstream Park. Rolly got into racing while attending college in Boston at the time when Suffolk Downs reopened in the early 1990s. Landed a job in the publicity staff there and eventually got into broadcasting at both Suffolk and Rockingham Park before moving to Philadelphia Park as a host on The Racing Network. Went on the road for YouBet.com as a track reporter in 2000 with a circuit of Gulfstream, Hialeah, Monmouth Park, the Meadowlands and eventually Belmont Park. Currently the New England correspondent for Daily Racing Form.

John Edwards
Director of Broadcast Operations
and Affiliate Relations

John Edwards is in his 3rd year with HRRN, serving as the Director of Broadcast Operations and Affiliate Relations. Throughout his career in radio, John worked for LM Communications where he served as the Operations Manager of ESPN Sports Radio 1300, Executive Producer for the "Sports Huddle", host of the University of Kentucky pre and post game shows for both football and basketball, and the Executive Producer of the "Chris Cross in the Morning" news program on SuperTalk 96.1. Before his tenure at LM Communications, he was the General Manager of the University of Kentucky's student-run radio station WRFL 88.1 FM. John graduated the University of Kentucky in 2006 with a BA in Political Science.

Adam Frenier
Producer

Adam Frenier is in his first year with HRRN, serving as a on-site producer and technician. Prior to joining HRRN, Frenier worked for WEEI/WRKO Radio in Boston, serving as the Studio Producer for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network from March 2005-May 2007. Since 2003, he has been affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Sports Radio Network in a number of capacities, including Studio Producer, Football Sideline reporter, Play by Play voice for webcasts of various athletic events and as a statistician. From 2000-2005, Frenier worked at WHMP-AM in Northampton, MA as a News Anchor and Reporter, producer and as a voice for various local sporting events. A Native of Northampton, MA, Frenier graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 2004 with a Bachelors' Degree in History.