The Florida Horse Park builds one of the largest covered arenas in the Southeast to promote equine events and other tourism events. The FTBOA launches Thoroughbred Week, a horse racing TV show, in Marion County in January, show is so well received it goes nationwide...
Harry T. Mangurian, Jr. is inducted into the Marion County Agriculture Hall of Fame for being such a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
Ocala/Marion County is coined the “Horse Capital of the World” after a national horse council survey showed that there were more horses and ponies in the county than any other in the U.S.
