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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM134T_e-p-taylor_Lexington-KY.html
A Canadian whose breeding farms were in Ontario and Maryland, E. P. Taylor nevertheless had a profound influence on Kentucky. His patronage of the Keeneland select yearling sale was significant in its emergence as the elite among international auc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1347_sheikh-mohammed_Lexington-KY.html
Through the last two decades of the 20th Century and into the next, the dominant purchasers of Thoroughbreds in the world were the Maktoum brothers from the country of Dubai. As the ruling family of that oil producing Emirate, the Maktoums are int…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1339_august-belmont-ii_Lexington-KY.html
Man O' War, the legendary race horse from the Golden Age of Sport, was bred in Kentucky by August Belmont II. For more than a quarter-century, Belmont was perhaps the most important figure in Thoroughbred racing, as chairman of the Jockey Club, a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNY7_eastern-state-hospital_Lexington-KY.html
The second State Mental Hospital built in the U.S. Established by legislative act of Dec. 4, 1822, which named commissioners to buy and operate it in Fayette County. They acquired The Fayette Hospital organized in 1816. "The Lunatic Asylum" opened…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNY6_lexington-historic-distillery-district_Lexington-KY.html
Side AStarted in 1869 by the Headley and Farra Company. Continued by James E. Pepper & Company in 1879. In the late 1800s, the James E. Pepper Distillery sold whiskey to over 90 brokerage houses across the U.S. It sold under a number of different …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNY5_fort-clay_Lexington-KY.html
Extensive earthworks with ditch, drawbridges and magazine were constructed here by Federal forces after the Battle of "Ashland," May 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNY4_first-race-course_Lexington-KY.html
Near this spot pioneers in 1780 established the starting point of the first race path in Kentucky, extending southward one quarter mile.