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Kentucky Horse Park is a working horse farm, international equestrian competition venue, and an educational theme park opened in 1978 in Lexington, Kentucky. It is located off Kentucky State Highway 1973 (Iron Works Pike) and Interstate 75 , at Exit 120, in northern Fayette County in the United States.
The Alltech Arena is a 5,517-seat multi-purpose arena in Lexington, Kentucky. [1] The facility, named for the title sponsor Alltech , opened on the grounds of the Kentucky Horse Park in July 2009. It was originally constructed for the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games .
The Soul of a Horse (Mare With Foal) was an award-winning 1963 photo taken by the German photojournalist and Stern magazine staffer Peter Thomann. [ 1 ] In the mid-1970s the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington opened to the public, using a logo based on the photograph. [ 2 ]
By Lexington, Brooks does not mean our fair city, but the horse named for it, Lexington, one of the most famous race horses and sires of all time. She was at a lunch near her home in Massachusetts ...
An admission fee is charged for the Horse Park. Guided tours of the arboretum are given at 3:00 p.m. on the last Sunday of each month, but self-guided tours may be taken at any time. Although the formal arboretum was established in 2004, many of its trees were by then well-established, with some dating to the 18th century.
This site is the center piece of the University of Kentucky's Adena Park and is located on a bank 75 feet (23 m) above Elkhorn Creek.It features a causewayed ring ditch with a circular 105-foot (32 m) diameter platform, surrounded by a 45-foot (14 m) wide ditch and a 13-foot (4.0 m) wide enclosure with a 33-foot (10 m) wide entryway facing to the west.
The Thoroughbred farm has produced 10 Kentucky Derby winners. The farm bears the name of the great-grandsire of Man-O-War, widely regarded as the best racehorse of all time. The horse ran 21 races ...
Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.