Carol Rose of Gainesville, Texas, a perennially leading breeder and exhibitor of western performance horses, has been named by the University of Louisville as the 2006 recipient of the John W. Galbreath Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship in the Equine Industry.

This award, presented annually since 1990 by the Equine Industry Program (EIP) in the College of Business, is given for extraordinary business success through innovative methods, practices, or approaches and business entrepreneurship that tends to lead a segment of the horse industry in some positive new direction.

"It is individual entrepreneurs who ultimately change industries by improving the effectiveness of individual firms in serving their markets," said Rich Wilcke, EIP director. "Carol Rose exemplifies a horse-oriented entrepreneur who has shown the way for many others in this business."

Rose is the American Quarter Horse Association's No. 1 All-Time Leading Breeder of Performance Horses, having bred foals earning nearly 30,000 AQHA points, including 43 AQHA world and reserve world championships, 13 AQHA national all-around titles, and AQHA earnings of more than $3.3 million.

The official presentation of the Galbreath Award to Rose will be made November 16 at the AQHA World Show in Oklahoma City. She will be in Louisville November 1 to deliver the 2006 Galbreath Award Lecture as part of the College of Business Leadership Lecture Series.

Rose's foals have also won approximately $3 million in competitions sanctioned by the National Cutting Horse Association, the National Reining Horse Association, and the National Reined Cow Horse Association. Rose's personal honors include induction into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, the National Cutting Horse Association's Non-Pro Hall of Fame, and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame.

The Galbreath Award is named for the late John W. Galbreath, a native of Ohio who built a local firm into an international development company. His sporting interests included the Pittsburgh Pirates and Darby Dan Farm, a top thoroughbred farm. A longtime chairman of Churchill Downs, Galbreath was the first to breed and race the winners of both the Kentucky Derby and also the English Derby.

Previous Galbreath recipients include Scoop Vessels, D. Wayne Lukas, Billy Morris, Denny Gentry, John Lyons, Tom Meeker, Judith Forbis, John Bell, Cot Campbell, David Willmot, Ami Shinitzky, Brian Mehl, Ted Bassett, Robert Clay, Tom Joy and John R. Gaines.