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Day 20 - Louisville & Lexington - Kentucky

A travel blog entry by traceystravels

... I met one of the trainers, Bobby Barrett, who was nice enough to stop and pose for a pic for me. Thanks Bobby. And from there it was off to the Churchill Downs Museum to see all the fabulous trophies and walls of winners. They show a quick film about the Kentucky Derby in an incredible oval auditorium where the film rotates around the oval above your head. The sound comes from all directions and you spin and turn on small ...

There were 3 now there are 2 and 1

A travel blog entry by astridtje

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

A travel blog entry by thecrazystrain

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

A travel blog entry by questwest2

... here. I almost decided against making the visit. I feel the tug for home, family and things familiar. Once again, I'm glad I stopped. When will I ever be this close to so much music history?
I left there thinking it was time for lunch/dinner and stopped at a nearby mexican restaurant. I've had so much mexican food in the last few weeks I've become fluent in refried beans and enchiladas.
My ...

Bourbon and horses baby! Heaven

A travel blog entry by dktravels

... 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 ...

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