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Day 20 - Louisville & Lexington - Kentucky
... s largest industry is thoroughbreds and their second largest is bourbon, so I combined the two, I was just being supportive :) After a nice little sit down for a bit it was off the bus to tour one of the working horse farms in Lexington. Despite the races being in Louisville, all the horse farms are in Lexington. The farm we visited was called Darby Dan, which is where they filmed Secretariat. They picked this farm instead ...
There were 3 now there are 2 and 1
Two have made it to the safe side of the Appalachia Mountains. One stayed in Marietta, Ohio.
Lexington is a guess, Kentucky is not.
Hopefully the Ohio river wont back up the Muskingum river in Marietta, Ohio. Will keep blogging if power stays ...
Giddy up
Just pulled into the Horse Park and besides not being able to open my window to pay the parking attendant no real excitement unless you call driving 35 ft of steel boring. We set off around 6:50 this AM from Casa de Strain and made good time. We stopped once at a ...
The Best of Country
... at the Oprey in time for the 4pm tour, which lasted just about an hour. It was a great, backstage tour where we got to see the performers entryways, dressing rooms, locker rooms for clothes and equipment and the green room. We actually were on the stage for part of the tour and I found it all very interesting. In 2010 there was a major flood and the building had to be heavily rebuilt. So ...
Bourbon and horses baby! Heaven
... so we went into the town of Versailles for lunch before making our way last but not least to coolmores American base Ashford stud. What an impressive looking property! Was simply amazing to look at over every inch was well thought about and immaculately kept. Again to much disappointment we were only shown the stallions but what was cool was they can hold 21 breeding stallions at any one time and have their own quarenteen centre set up. This lead to a ...