Secretariat the star of 3-day festival in Paris, Ky.

PARIS, Ky. (WTVQ) — The Secretariat Festival is coming up this weekend, with lots of different activities to celebrate the horse racing industry in Kentucky.

“We are at the start of our big three-day festival where we’re unveiling Secretariat Park this weekend. This is the Legends of Bourbon County Festival; it’s the first of many years of celebrating the thoroughbred industry in Bourbon County,” said festival chairperson Lauren Biddle.

The official opening of Secretariat Park is Saturday — exactly 50 years to the day Secretariat arrived at his new home at Claiborne Farm following his impressive racing career. His times at the Kentucky Derby remain undefeated.

“We’ve done a lot of cleaning up in the downtown district, so we’re ready, we’re excited everybody has their windows painted,” said Biddle.

Downtown is expecting lots of visitors, tourists and residents to come together and celebrate with tons of different activities for horse lovers.

“We have some bands in the downtown district playing all day, we have a thoroughbred marketplace that’s our vendor marketplace, and we have some various shopping happening as well,” Biddle added.

And if you get hungry from all the activity, no need to worry.

For this festival, we have pretzels and we have house beer cheese to go with those pretzels and pizza bread,” said Andrea Pompei, the owner of Hopewell Bake Exchange.

The festival is happening today, tomorrow and Sunday — and the center of attention is the one and only secretariat.

“What I can say is he has a following today like Elvis has at Graceland. Still to this day, people love him, and you know what, I think he came around during a time where people needed him to come around and needed a hero,” said Biddle.

For more about the festival, head here: Legends of Bourbon County Festival